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CHANGES REQUIRED. 



relations with Zanzibar might be altered for the 

 benefit of both contracting parties. It is at pre- 

 sent an unnatural, exclusive system, a monopoly 

 claiming advantages of which it will not, or 

 cannot, avail itself. But all steps in these mat- 

 ters must be taken by the Home Governments ; 

 the petty jealousies of rival powers here render 

 all local interference unadvisable. 



At length the Kazi Muhiyy el Din, the ' ce- 

 lestial doctor' of the Wasawahili, was detailed 

 by the curious to investigate the subject, and to 

 represent the terrors of the public. He retired, 

 satisfied that our plans were not of conquest. 

 The Arab chiefs pressed Lieut. -Colonel Hamer- 

 ton to swear upon the e Kalmat Ullah 9 that the 

 expedition was to be conducted only by English 

 officers, upon whose good- will they could rely ; 

 that it was not a proselytizing movement of the 

 Wanajuoni (sons of the book, missionaries), and 

 that it would not be accompanied by 'Dutch- 

 men,' as certain gentleman from Germany were 

 called by the Zanzibaris. 1 Had the Consul hesi- 



1 I leave these words as they were written in 1857, a time 

 when German nationality did not exist, and when the name of 

 German had perhaps reached its lowest appreciation. Through- 

 out the history of the nineteenth century there is nothing 

 more striking than the change which the last decade has 

 worked in Europe, than the rise of the mighty power, which in 

 a month crushed the armies of France, and which tore from 



