MADAME IDA PFEIFFER, 



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foancied Zanzibar Island with the whole coast of 

 Eastern Africa, whose ports, especially those 

 about Kilwa, were supported almost wholly by 

 the slave trade. Lieut. -Colonel Coghlan had 

 been long enough at Aden to know that Berbe- 

 rah, Zayla, and Tajurrah are slave-exporting as 

 well as importing markets, and that every native 

 craft sailing up coast always declares itself to be 

 from 'the Sawahil,' or, if that word be not 

 understood, from Zanzibar. At the time when 

 my first report was written an agent of the same 

 Messrs Lambert was waiting passage at Kili- 

 ma-ni with 1000 travailleurs libres : many of the 

 wretches had died of the famine which had de- 

 vastated the southern coast, and the speculator 

 complained that he had lost 820,000 to §30,000. 

 The same M. Lambert, in 1857, visited Tana- 

 narive, persuading poor Madame Ida Pfeiffer to 

 accompany him : his object was not so much to 

 'depose,'^ as to dispose of, the old Queen, who 

 was to be succeeded by a person more amenable 

 to Christianity and Erench influence : the pre- 

 mature discovery of the plot caused the death 

 of the lady who twice journeyed round the world. 



1 Page xliii. of Mr E. Gr. Eavenstein's Introduction to Dr 

 Krapf s Travels, Eesearches, and Missionary Labours (London : 

 Triibner. 1860). 



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