CHAPTER XI. 



COMPARATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY (ETHNOLOGY) OF 

 ZANZIBAR — THE WASAWAHILI AND THE SLAVE 

 RACES. 



1 Venti anni sono, il commercio di Zanzibar era nullo ; ora 

 il commercio li supera 50 milioni di franchi. Per alcuni 

 articoli, per esempio, pel garofano, per la gomma copale, e 

 per l'avorio, il mercato di Zanzibar e divenuto il principale 

 del Mondo.' — P. 17, La grandezza Italiana, by the learned 

 geographer Cavagliere Cristoforo Negri. Torino, 1864. 



The Wasawahili, bounded north by the Somal 

 and the Gallas, south by the so-called Kafir 

 tribes, extend along the Indian Ocean from 

 Makdishu to Mozambique, a coastal distance of 

 some 1050 miles ; they also occupy the Zangian 

 Archipelago, and the islets that fringe the shore. 

 They call themselves Wazumba, ignoring the 

 term Jabarti or Ghiberti (Gibberti), still ap- 



