CHAPTER VIII. 



ETHNOLOGY OF ZANZIBAR. THE FOREIGN 

 RESIDENTS. 



' Quiconque ne voit guere 

 N'a guere a dire aussi. Mon voyage depeint 



Yous sera d'un plaisir extreme. 

 Je dirai ; j'etais la ; telle chose m'avint, 

 Yous y croirez etre vous-meme.' — La Fontaine. 



The 300,000 souls 1 now (1857-9) composing 

 the residents on, and the population of, the Zan- 

 zihar Island, are a heterogeneous body. The 

 former consist of Americans and Europeans, 



1 The extremes mentioned to me were 100,000 and 

 1,000,000. Captain Smee (1811) gave 200,000. Dr Ruschen- 

 berger (1835) made the population of the Island 150,000 

 souls, of whom 17,000 were free negroes. M. Guillain 

 (1846) places the extremes mentioned to him at G0,000 to 

 200,000: when he asked the Sayyid, the latter replied like a 

 veritable Arab, ' How can I know when I cannot tell you how 

 many there are in my own house ? ' 



