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and sterile ; not a hut or a boat was to be seen, although 

 the sea-shore abounds with fish. From the latter place 

 the land improves, and on the line it becomes completely 

 woody, and so continues far to the southward. 



The trade of this coast is chiefly in the hands of the 

 Arabs from Muscat, MacuUa, &c., and a few adventurers 

 from Cutch and the coast of Scinde. The principal im- 

 ports at Zanzibar are Surat cloths, to the amount of about 

 12 lacs of rupees annually, besides beads, cotton, sugar, 

 ghee, fish, dates, and grain, and about 200 candies of iron 

 bar, which is partly distributed for use along the coast. 

 English woollens are in no demand, consequently not im- 

 jKjrtcd. The exports are slaves, elephants* teeth, raw 

 dammcr,' rhinoceros' hides and horns, cowries, wax, turtle 

 shells, coir, cocoa-nuts, &c. The duties collected licre on 

 merchandise are said to amount to about one and a lialf 

 lacs of dollars annually ; but as imposition and extortion 

 are occasionally resorted to, they may be considerably 

 more. The Imaum of Muscat receives from hence a clear 

 sum of 00,000 dollars, and yearly makes an additional l('vy 

 on various pretexts. The following is a list of trading 

 vessels at Zanzibar at the end of March, LSll. Two 

 ships, two snows, three ketches, 21 dows, 10 buglas, four 

 dingeys, 10 small boats of sizes, besides a variety of 

 country boats constantly arriving and departing, and two 

 lai ge boats building. Some seasons upwards of 100 large 

 dows, i^c, have been known to arrive at this port from 

 Arabia and India, but its trade appears on the decline, 

 while that of the ports of Mombas and Lamoo belonging 

 to independent Arab chiefs is annually inipioving. 



' Possibly copal. 



