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CAPTAIN GUILLAIN. 



Maizan, c'est qu'il ^tait intelligent, instruit, cour- 

 ageux, et qu'il a pe>i mis&ablement a la fleur de 

 l'age (set. 26) an d^but d'une enterprise ou il 

 anrait pn rencontrer la gloire.' I have also 

 described (Lake Regions of Central Africa, 1. 

 Chap. 3), from information collected on the spot, 

 the young traveller's untimely end ; and it is still 

 my opinion that the foul murder was caused 

 more or less directly by the Christian merchants 

 of Zanzibar. Dr Krapf s account of the cata- 

 strophe (Travels, p. 421) abounds in errors. Cap- 

 tain Guillain was also sent on a kind of bagman's 

 tour, a hawker carrying echantillons of French 

 cloth and other produce offered to the Arab mar- 

 ket. Mayotta having been ceded in 1841 by the 

 Sakalawa chief, Andrian Souli, to the French 

 government, which occupied it militarily in 1843, 

 the first idea was to make of it a second and a 

 more civilized Zanzibar. The coasting voyages 

 and afew short inland trips were thought worthy of 

 being published in three bulky volumes (Docu- 

 ments sur l'Histoire, la Geographic, et la Com- 

 merce de l'Afrique Orientale, recuellis et r^diges 

 par M. Guillain, &c; publics par ordre du Gou- 

 vernement. Paris, Bertrand). The additions to 

 Captain Owen's survey are unimportant, but the 

 French officer has diligently collected 6 documents 



