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tated to satisfy them, the course of events is 

 clear to all who know the Eastern man. The 

 surface of Arah civility would have run un- 

 ruffled, hut the undertow would have carried 

 us off our legs. 



Persuaded at last hv the earnestness of our 



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energetic supporter, the Sayyid Sulayman hin 

 Hamid hin Said — a nohle Omani never neglects 

 the name of his s;randsire — came forward in our 

 favour. This aged chief, a cousin of the late 

 Sayyid, rejoiced in* the nickname of Bahari 

 Maziwa (Sea of Milk), the Ethiopic equivalent for 

 ' soft- sawder.' He had governed Zanzibar during 

 the minority of Savvid Khalid, who died in 

 1854, and his influence was strong upon the 

 sea-hoard. He gave us his good word in sundry 

 circulars, to which the Prince Majid added 

 others, addressed to Kimwere, Sultan of Usum- 

 hara ; to the Diwans or AYasawahili head-men, 



her side the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. By an Eng- 

 lishman who loves his country, nothing can be more enthusi- 

 astically welcomed than this accession to power of a kindred 

 people, connected with us by language, by religion, and by all 

 the ties which bind nation to nation. It proves that the 

 North is still the fecund mother of heroes, and it justifies us 

 in hoping that our Anglo-Teutonic blood, with its Scandinavian 

 1 baptism,' will gain new strength by the example, and will 

 apply itself to rival our Continental cousins in the course of 

 progress, and in the mighty struggle for national life and 

 prosperity. 



