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with the Arabs, mastered, pillaged, and burnt 

 Canton. Much later (17th century) Shah Abbas 

 claimed Zanzibar Island and coast as an appa- 

 nage of the suzerainty of Oman. 



East Africa still preserves traditions of two 

 distinct colonizations from Persia. The first is 

 that of the ' Emozaydiys,' or 6 Emozeides ' 

 (Amm Zayd), who conquered and colonized the 

 sea-board of East Africa, from Berberah of the 

 Somal to Comoro and Madagascar, both in- 

 cluded. A second and later emigration (about 

 a.d. 1000) occupied the south Zanzibarian coast, 

 and ruins built by the 6 Shirazian dynasty 

 which still lingers, are shown on various parts of 

 the sea-board. Of these Persian occupations 

 more will be found in the following pages. (Part 

 1, Chap. 1, and Part 2, Chap. 2.) 



Persia has left nothing of her widely ex- 

 tended African conquests but a name. In mo- 

 dern days she has become more and more a 

 non-maritime power. She has wholly retired 

 from the coast ; and Time, who in these lands 

 works with a will, presently obliterated almost 

 every trace of the stranger. A few ruins at 

 Aden and Berberah, and the white and black 

 sheep of Ormania (Galla-land) and of Somali land, 

 are almost the only vestiges of Persian presence 



