GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



having side-tables to themselves spread with their 

 particular dainties. 



It was a wonderful mixture of colour — black 

 and tan and white, and, alas ! yellow ! Arabs, 

 Hindus, Khojas, Earsis and Europeans. The Coun- 

 cil all wear a grand gold and red cloak with gold 

 turbans. They did not give the poor old man a 

 new velvet cap, so in his nervousness he took off 

 his old one with the old turban, and put on the 

 grand new cloak and gold turban, and a funny 

 nearly white comical bald head stuck out above, 

 till some one, seeing it, gave him back his old velvet 

 skull cap, which he hastily put on. 



The Khoja ladies of course were conspicuous 

 by their absence ; a few grandly dressed little chil- 

 dren came in with silk trousers and silk coatees 

 and beaded skull caps. The Khojas, under their 

 Arab-like cloak, dress as Europeans in white 

 trousers and boots. 



The Aga Khan came to Nairobi while we were 

 there to see his disciples and collect money from 

 them. During Seyyid Said's reign, the Sultan gave 

 a very good piece of land to the Indians as a burial 

 ground for ever and ever ; it is on the Mnazi Moja, 

 and would have made an excellent site for building 

 houses along the sea-shore, and in a healthy position. 

 All that could now be done was, with the Aga 

 Khan's permission — he only could give it — to wall it 

 in and restrict the growth of their ground by build- 



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