HANDSOME MOSES. 



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themselves to slave- dealing, and lately one was 

 deported for selling poison to negroes ; they are 

 receivers of stolen goods, and by the readiness 

 with which they buy whatever is brought for 

 sale, they encourage the pilfering propensities of 

 the slaves. They travel far and wide ; several 

 of them have visited the Lake Regions, and we 

 afterwards met, at Kazeh of TJnyanyembe, 1 one 

 of their best men, Musa Mzuri. At Zanzibar all 

 not in trade are rude artisans, who can patch a 

 lantern and tin a pot ; one of them, who had 

 learned to mend a watch, repaired the broken 

 wheel of my pocket pedometer. 



Of the free blacks who visit and who some- 

 times reside in Zanzibar, I have mentioned the 

 Malagash : these Madagascar Islanders occupy 

 the easternmost suburb of the town. In early 

 ages the Arab and Wasawahili settlers on the 

 western coast of the Great Island traded with 

 the Mozambique, the Sawahil, and even Arabia, 

 and since 1829 the persecutions of the Queen 

 Eanavola-Manjaka, and the heavy yoke of the 

 Hova conquerors, caused many to leave their 

 homes. The rare Somal need hardly be no- 



1 ' Handsome Moses ' is mentioned in ' The Lake Eegions 

 of Central Africa ' (i. 323, et passim). He and his ' brother,' 

 Sayyan, entered the country about 1830. 



