THE BOMBARDMENT OF ZANZIBAR 



marry her ! " They all hastened to get it accom- 

 plished again, but a serious difficulty stood in the 

 way, for it was not right by Mohammedan law 

 for them to remarry till she had married some one 

 else. This was arranged though, by sending for 

 the Sultan's brother-in-law, marrying him to the 

 Sultana, and getting him to promptly divorce her 

 again, so that then she could remarry her former 

 husband. Now, happily, things have settled them- 

 selves all right. At first she was not allowed near 

 the baby, but now the little girl is sometimes with 

 her. 



During our stay in Zanzibar, it was the correct 

 thing for my husband to be presented to the Sultan, 

 and for me to be presented to the Sultana. Mr. 

 Cave, the Consul-General, went one morning, after 

 asking His Highness's permission, with four officers 

 of the King's African Rifles to the palace. They 

 were received in a large bare room and afterwards 

 adjourned into a smaller, when coffee and sherbet 

 were handed round. In the afternoon Mrs. Cave, 

 after asking the Sultana's permission, took a Vice- 

 Consul's wife, who had only been in Zanzibar a few 

 months, and myself, to be presented. We drove in 

 the consulate carriage, and then were shown up by 

 a fat but very grandly dressed attendant, to the 

 top of the private palace ; the eunuch was dressed 

 in the royal scarlet and much gold lace. After 

 going up many bare stairs. Her Highness received 



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