CHAPTER XXIII 



SUBJECTS ORIENTAL 



(SEEING SOMETHING OF MOHAMMEDANS) 



Tea-party with Parsis and Khojas — the Aga Khan's cousin — 

 opening ceremony of the new Jamat Khana premises — 

 Khoja burial-ground. 



Mr. Boyce, a Parsi barrister in Zanzibar, whose 

 wife and children were in England, so that the 

 children should be well educated, told me a good 

 deal about his people, but among other things more 

 serious he told me an amusing story of a Parsi, an 

 elderly and venerable-looking man, who was on 

 board a big liner going to England. Some one 

 wishing to make himself agreeable went up to 

 him and said, " I hope, sir, you are a good sailor ! " 

 *' Sailor, indeed 1 " said the elderly Parsi ; " why I 

 am a first-class passenger ! " 



Mr. Boyce wrote round to me one day to say 

 the cousin of the Aga Khan, who was over in 

 Zanzibar from Bombay in connection with the law- 

 suit his mother and family were bringing against 

 the Aga Khan, was coming to tea with him and 

 some of the leading Khojas, and asking my husband 



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