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POLICE. 



Arabia and from the southern seaboard of Persia, 

 Mekran, and Kilat : when the Prince required 

 extra levies he rigged out a vessel and re- 

 cruited at Guadel or at Makallah. He preferred 

 the Aryan, 1 as being more amenable to discipline 

 than the Semite : moreover, the Arab clans- 

 man, like the Highlander of old, though feudally 

 bound to follow his suzerain, requires the order 

 of his immediate chief, and the latter, when most 

 wanted, is uncommonly likely to rat or to 

 revolt. The mercenaries of Zanzibar nomi- 

 nally receive $2 to S3 per mensem, with rations : 

 practically, the money finds its way more or 

 less into the pocket of the Jemadar or C. O- 

 The fort is here garrisoned by some 80 of these 

 men and their negro slaves : the former are 

 equal to double the number of Arabs in the 

 field, and behind walls they are a match for a 

 nation of savages. Police by day and night 

 patrols are much wanted at Zanzibar, where 

 every man must be his own 1 Robert.' The 

 slaves are unruly subjects ; even those of the 

 fort will commit an occasional murder, and the 

 suburbs are still far from safe during the dark 



1 It is hardly necessary to correct in these days the error of 

 Carsten Niebuhr, who made the ' Belludges ' (Baloch) a tribe of 

 Arabs. The Baloch mercenaries will be found further noticed 

 in Part II. chap. vi. 



