618 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



Kirk advised me as friends, for they knew my poverty and understood my 

 case better than I could have told them.' 



" Such is the story of the Sultan without embellishment, and I dare say 

 that Sir Bartle Frere will endorse most of it, if not all. Now, however, that 

 the treaty has been signed, and England's indignation at the Seyyid's first 

 refusal to concede to her demands, has been appeased, strict justice requires, 

 in his opinion, that the Prince shall in some measure be requited for the con- 

 cession he made. This is not merely his opinion, nor is it only my definition 

 of what justice demands, in this case ; but it is the outspoken and frank declar- 

 ation of several eminent English gentlemen with whom I have conversed. They 

 say that the Prince should be indemnified, for this concession on his part, with 

 some grant of money or aid, in some form or another, for sacrificing to Eng- 

 land's views of what is right and wrong an eighth portion of his revenue. 

 That the plea that England may use, that she guaranteed Prince Burghash's 

 release from the annual subsidy of 40,000 crowns to his brother at Muscat, 

 cannot be employed at all, as England herself had imposed this sum on the 

 Zanzibar Sultan in order that her commerce might not be endangered in the 

 fratricidal war which might ensue on Prince Burghash's refusal to pay this 

 heavy subsidy ; and that it is doubtful whether Prince Toorkee could ever 

 summon sufficient force to compel Prince Burghash to pay him a single coin. 

 With which views just men will not fail to agree. The presents which Sir Bartle 

 Frere and his suite brought to Zanzibar for presentation to the Sultan were, 

 again, hardly worthy of the nation, which, no doubt, intended to act gene- 

 rously, or of the representative of her Britannic Majesty which conveyed them, 

 and of the Prince for whom they were purchased. Well enough, no doubt, for 

 the petty potentate of Jobama, who ultimately received them, but not for the 

 Sovereign of Zanzibar and Pemba, and a thousand miles of coast, with whom 

 a British envoy was charged to negotiate. It is not common sense to suppose 

 that any private citizen would look indulgently upon any proposition which 

 required of him to sacrifice £4,000 a year of his income in consideration of a 

 few petty gifts which did not exceed over a few hundred pounds in value at 

 the most, any more than that Prince Burghash should. Yet this is precisely 

 what Sir Bartle Frere was charged to propose by the Foreign Office in his 

 late mission to Zanzibar. Owing to the losses incurred by him and his people 

 during the hurricane of 1872, and the sacrifice of a large portion of his reve- 

 nue by the demands of England, the Prince of Zanzibar suffers from strait- 

 ness of income and ready money. He has leased the customs to Jewram 

 Sujee, a Banyan, during a term of years, for a very insufficient sum. He is 

 sorely troubled with the native war in Unyamwezi, which prevents the ivory 

 from arriving at the sea. His private estates aie mere wrecks of what they 

 once were, and the real pecuniary condition of Prince Burghash may be 

 summed up as truly deplorable. Now, a present of two condemned gunboats, 



