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Mr. Waters sailed from Salem for Zanzibar, Oct. 29, 

 1836, in the Brig " Generous," Capt. Benjamin Couant, 

 Master, and sighted the Island, March 17, 1837, dropping 

 anchor before the populous city of his destination the next 

 morning. He was the bearer, amongst other papers, of a 

 letter of thanks from the President to the Sultan for aid 

 rendered our famous Sloop of War " Peacock," while 

 aground near Muscat. His welcome was a marked one. 

 He was received with a national salute from the Brig " Le- 

 ander," Capt. James S. Kimball, belonging to Capt. Jo- 

 seph Peabody of Salem, in addition to the official salute 

 of the Sultan's Frigate " Shahalum," to both ot which the 

 " Generous " replied. Two days later he was received by 

 Captain Hassen, a resident Private Secretary, who had 

 entertained him at dinner and arranged all needful for- 

 malities, and by him presented to His Highness Syed Sied 

 Bin, Sultan of Muscat and its Dependencies. His High- 

 ness placed him in his own seat, warmly reciprocating his 

 expressions in favor of commercial intercourse, and ten- 

 dering him his choice of houses in the city, rent-free, and 

 the use of long boats from his Sloop-of-War. Mr. Waters 

 presented his credentials and President Jackson's letter, 

 and retired after an hour's talk, much pleased with the in- 

 terview. The mutual understanding then established was 

 unimpaired throughout his official residence at Zanzibar, 

 and indeed survived his return to his own country. In 



present, besides Mr. Waters, Rev. Gardner B. Perry, Rev. Cyrus P. Grosvenor, 

 Deacon Dodge, Thomas Spencer and William Oakes. Mr. Garrison had been 

 mobbed in Boston the year before. New Year's day, 1837, which was Sunday, he 

 passed on ship board off the Cape of Good Hope, and his journal for that day re- 

 cites with pious enthusiasm the liberation from Salem jail, just a year before, of 

 Rev. George B. Cheever with whom he had then associated himself as his "beloved 

 pastor," in whose martyrdom he rejoiced, and whose two stirring sermons on the 

 event he heard amidst the excited concourse which crowded the aisles and en- 

 trances of the Howard Street Church. 



For Rev. J. T. Woodbury, see Palmer's Necrology of Harvard College, pp. 

 36G-8. For Hon. Levi Woodbury, see Hist. Coll . Essex Inst., Vol. xxiv, p. 4. 



