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seaboard between Ra'as Jask and Guadel be- 

 longed to him : in the Persian Gulf he had 

 Khishm, Larak, and Hormuz, and he farmed 

 from the Shah, Bandar Abbas and its depend- 

 ency, Mina. His African possessions were far 

 the most extensive and important. He ruled, to 

 speak roughly, the whole Eastern Coast from N*. 

 lat. 5°, and even from Cape Guardafui, where 

 the maritime Souial were to a certain extent his 

 dependents, to Cape Delgado (S. lat. 11°), where 

 the Arab met the Portuguese rule — an extent of 

 16° = 960 geographical miles. The small re- 

 publics of Makdishu (Magadoxo, in N. lat. 2° 

 1' 4"), of Brava (N. lat. 1° 6' 48"), of Patta or 

 Bette (S. lat. 2° 9' 12"), and of Lamu (S. lat. 

 2° 15' 42"), owned his protectorate, and in April, 

 1865, Marka received from him a garrison. The 

 whole Zanzibarian Archipelago was his, and he 

 claimed Bahrayn, Zayla, Aden, and Berberah, 

 the first-mentioned with, the last three without, 

 a shadow of right. His Arab subjects declared 

 that they, and not the Portuguese, ceded Bom- 

 bay to the British: the foundation of the story 

 is a mosque built in ancient times by the 

 Omanis, somewhat near the present Boree Ban- 

 dar. 



Sayyid Said left a single widow, the lady 



