ZANZIBAR. 



CHAPTER I. 



PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE. 



1 We were now landed upon the Continent of Africa, the 

 most desolate, desert, and inhospitable country in the world, 

 even Greenland and Nova Zembla itself not excepted.' — Defoe. 



I could not have believed, before Experience 

 taught me, how sad and solemn is the moment 

 when a man sits down to think over and to 

 write out the tale of what was before the last De- 

 cade began. How many thoughts and memories 

 crowd upon the mind ! How many ghosts and 

 phantoms start up from the brain — the shreds of 

 hopes destroyed and of aims made futile ; of 

 ends accomplished and of prizes won ; the fail- 

 ures and the successes alike half forgotten ! 

 How many loves and friendships have waxed cold 

 in the presence of new ties ! How many graves 



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