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worth $218,000— he now (1857) begs his bread. 



Sayyid Said at once began to encourage 

 foreign residents. With a remarkable liberality 

 he at once broke up the monopoly of trade 

 which the Wasawahili had preserved for eight 

 centuries, including the 200 years when it was 

 perpetuated by the avidity and the fanaticism 

 of the Portuguese. The United States, who 

 being first in the market for ivory, copal, and 

 hides, had dispersed their cottons and hardwares 

 throughout Eastern Africa, concluded with him, 

 in Sept. 1835, an advantageous treaty, and estab- 

 lished, about the end of 1837, a trading consul- 

 ate at his court. Pour years afterwards (De- 

 cember, 1841) Lieut. -Colonel Hamerton was 

 directed to make Zanzibar his head-quarters as 

 6 H. B. Majesty's Consul, and H. E. I. Company's 

 Agent in the dominions of H. H. the Imaum.' 

 Captain Eomain Desfosses, the Mentor of the 

 Prince de Joinville, and commanding the naval 

 division of Bourbon and Madagascar, escorted by 

 a squadron, signed a treaty on November, 1844. 

 He was accompanied by a consul without a chan- 

 cellier, and the former at once receiving his ex- 

 equatur, began residence. 



The Sayyid was unfortunate in sundry at- 

 tempts to subjugate the Zanzibar Coast : his 



