HISTORY OF ZANZIBAR 



In Mohammedan law, a brother succeeds a brother, 

 not a son his father. 



The popularity of Great Britain and the English 

 rather decreased in Hamid's time, and Khaled, who 

 had his partisans, gradually prepared matters so 

 that on Hamid's death he could assert what he and 

 some of the Arabs thought his right to reign. This 

 he did by promptly, on hearing of Seyyid Hamid's 

 death, occupying the palace, and filling it and sur- 

 rounding places with his armed followers, in all 

 about 2,000 men. Hamid had also increased his 

 forces, from 200 to nearly 1,000 men. Then fol- 

 lowed the bombardment, and final weakening of 

 the power of the Sultans, which requires a chapter 

 to itself. 



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