RETURX TO ZAXZIBAR. 



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Consul who succeeded liiin was a new man, re- 

 ported generally to be not indifferent to self- 

 interest. The U. S. Consul refused to take any 

 part in the matter, declaring that if he was killed 

 his nation would demand four lacs of rupees, 

 one for himself, one for his wife, and two for the 

 house. 



Presently it was announced officially that the 

 inyading fleet had been dispersed by a storm, and 

 that Capt. FuUerton, of H. M. S. Punjaub, 

 sailing under orders of the Bombay Goyernment, 

 had persuaded Sayyid Suwayni to return. Con- 

 gratulations were exchanged, salutes were fii'ed, 

 bullets whizzed about like hornets, the negroes 

 danced and sang for a consecutiye week, and 

 with the least possible delay armed men poured 

 in crammed boats from the Island towai*ds their 

 normal stations. But the blow had been struck : 

 the cholera had filled the city with mournins: ; 

 the remnant of the trading season was insufficient 

 for the usual commercial transactions, and a 

 strong impression that the attack from Maskat 

 would be renewed, as indeed it was, seemed to 

 be uppermost in eyery miud.^ 



* The Sayvid Majid had origiually agreed to pay annually 



$20,000 to Sayyid Suwayni, $10,000 to his brother, Sayyid 



Turki of Sohar, and $10,000 tribute to the Wahhabis. This 



was on condition that Sayyid Turki should not be molested, as 

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