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sliip, and attacked with great loss tlie Sliaykh of 

 Tirendiconde, who had actually murdered his 

 father. The pride and extortions of the new 

 Sultan soon offended his suhjects; he was deposed 

 by orders of the Viceroy, and he died in obscurity 

 at Mombasah. 



Micante, once more confirmed as Saltan, 

 proved himself a greater plague than Ali Hosayn, 

 but he managed to secure the interest of Eran- 

 cisco Pereira Pestana. This ' Captain of Kilwa ' 

 aided in attacking the deposed Ibrahim, but the 

 Portuguese garrison was reduced to 40 sound 

 men. Hearing the danger of his subjects, D. 

 Manoel ordered the Viceroy to raze the fort of 

 Santiago, and to transfer Pestana to Socotra, 

 which had just been occupied by the Lusitanians, 

 and from which they expected great benefits in 

 their wars with the Turks. Thereupon Ibrahim 

 returned again to his own, Micante fled to the 

 Querimba Islands, where he died in misery, and 

 the former, made wiser by adversity, restored 

 Kilwa to her old prosperity, and charged his sons 

 never to fail in fidelity to Portugal. 



In 1598 the capital of Southern Zanzibar 

 was attacked by the Wazimba Kafirs, who after- 

 wards commited such ravages at Mombasah. A 

 traitorous Moor made conditions for himself and 



