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says the chronicler. Prom this time probably 

 we may date the pointed arches that still remain 

 upon the Island, and the foundation of the fort, 

 which is popularly attributed to the 'Paranj.' 

 Mombasah and Pemba were presently occupied 

 by the Portuguese; and the ruins of their ex- 

 tensive barracoons, citadels, and churches still 

 argue ancient splendour. In other places upon 

 the seaboard I found deep and carefully sunk 

 wells, stone enclosures, and coralline temples, 

 whilst vestiges of European buildings may be 

 traced, it is said, contrary to popular opinion, 

 many days' journey inland. 



We read little about Lusitanianized Zan- 

 zibar, where the insalubrity of the climate must 

 have defended the interior, and even parts of the 

 coast, from the spoiler. In a.d. 1519 the Moors 

 massacred certain shipwrecked sailors belonging 

 to the expedition of D. Jorje de Albuquerque. 

 Three years afterwards the Shaykh, or, as he 

 styled himself, the Sultan 1 of Zanzibar, who, 

 after submitting to Ravasco, had acknowledged 

 himself a vassal of D. Manuel, fitted out, with 

 the aid of the factors Joao de Mata and Pedro 



1 The only Shaykhs who took the name of Sultan were 

 those of Kilwa and Zanzibar : he of Mombasah was tributary 

 to the latter. 



