CHAPTER X. 



COMPARATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY (ETHNOLOGY) OE 

 ZANZIBAR. THE ARABS. 



* Les Arabes ne sont maintenant, dans l'Afrique Orientale, 

 que des parasites, comme Test tout peuple exclusivement com- 

 mer9ant.' — M. Guillain, vol. ii. part ii. chap. ii. p. 151. 



The Arabs upon the Island may amount to a 

 total of 5000, 1 all Omans ; and they are divided, 

 as in their fatherland, into two great Kabilah or 

 tribes, the Hinawi and the Ghafiri. 



When Malik bin Fakhm, of the Benu Hunay- 

 fah tribe, marched from his own country, Nejd, to 

 recover Oman from the Persians under Dara, son 

 of Bahman, son of Isfandiyar, an event popularly 

 dated about the end of our 1st century, he was 

 joined by some 100 Yemeni warriors who were 



i In 1846 M. G-uillain proposed 3000, including a floating 

 population of 300 to 400. Documents, &c, part ii. p. 78. 



