I860.] THE 'THULE' PRESENTED TO THE SULTAN. 3 



Dr. Seward arranged to have an audience with the Sultan, 

 to carry out his instructions, which were to present me 

 in a formal manner ; Captain Bradshaw of the Wasp, with 

 Captain Leatham of the Vigilant, and Bishop Tozer, were 

 to accompany us in full dress, but the Sultan had a tooth- 

 ache and gumboil, and could not receive us ; he, however, 

 placed one of his houses at my disposal, and appointed a 

 man who speaks English to furnish board for my men and 

 me, and also for Captain Brebner, of the Thule, and his men. 



Livingstone's House, Zanzibar. 



6th February, 1866. — The Sultan being still unable to 

 come, partly on account of toothache and partly on account 

 of Kamadan, he sent his commodore, Captain Abdullah, 

 to receive the Tliule. When the English flag was hauled 

 down in the Thule, it went up to the mainmast of the 

 Iskander Shah, and was saluted by twenty-one guns ; then 

 the Wasp saluted the Arab flag with an equal number, 

 which honour being duly acknowledged by a second royal 

 salute from the Iskander Shah, Captain Abdullah's frigate, 

 the cer-emony ended. 



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