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investiture took place in the Victoria Hall, a first-rate building 

 for public ceremonies of this sort. It is in the Sultan's 

 gardens, where the slave-market used to exist in days prior to 

 the British Protectorate. Sir Arthur Hardinge, K.C.M.G., C.B., 

 her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General and Diplomatic Agent, 

 sat at the Sultan's right ; and Brigadier-General A. E. Raikes, 

 commanding his Highness the Sultan's army, was at the Sultan's 

 left. The others in sequence were Basil S. Cave, Esq., C.B., 

 the Consul ; Henry C. C. Dundas, Esq., the Vice-Consul ; and 

 next to the latter sat Captain P. F. Tillard, R.X., of H.M.S. 

 Magicienne. Behind the Captain sat Mrs. Basil Cave. 



Sir Arthur is deservedly popular throughout both Protec- 

 torates. His genial manners and flow of conversation cover 

 the erudite classical scholar of Oxford and the distinguished 

 Arabic linguist. 



Mr. Basil Cave is well known, owing to the prominent part 

 he played in the suppression of the usurper who endeavoured 

 to seize the Sultanate when the late Sultan died. 



Zanzibar is one of the bishoprics of the Universities Mission ; 

 their death-roll is appalling. I was sorry to find that of four of 

 their number who were fellow-passengers with me in 1896 only 

 one is left ; one died, two have been permanently invalided : 

 no comment is needed. In 1893 I visited the island of Likoma 

 in Lake Nyassa, another of their bishoprics, where the list of 

 dead and invalided is even heavier ; the Bishop, who showed 

 us friendly hospitality, was succeeded by his Archdeacon ; when 

 the latter died, the medical missionary became the bishop. 



The English Club in Zanzibar is a very popular institution, 

 and famous for its " Sabbath-Calms" and other mysteries, which. 

 however, must not be divulged to the uninitiated ; the stranger- 

 guest soon learns them. 



From Zanzibar to Mombasa means about fifteen hours by 

 steamer. At present there is rather an uncertainty how long 

 one may have to wait at Zanzibar for a steamer to cross over 

 to Mombasa. There is, however, a monthly communication 

 by means of the German line and the British India. In 

 addition, the Protectorate steamer the Juba plies between the 

 two islands. Last time I crossed from Mombasa to Zanzibar 

 it was in the Jtiba, and we had an Arab dhow in tow as far 

 as Wasin (written also Wassein). 



Wasin is the southern extremity of the coast-line of the 



