MURDER OF M. MAIZAX. 



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Frederique returned to Zanzibar shortly after the 

 murder, and was examined by M. Broquant. An in- 

 famous plot would probably have come to light had he 

 not fled from the fort where he was confined. Frederique 

 disappeared mysteriously. He is said now to be living 

 at Marungu, on the Tanganyika Lake, under the Moslem 

 name of Muhammadf. His flight served for a pretext 

 to mischievous men that the prince was implicated in 

 the murder : they also spread a notoriously false report 

 that Mazungera, an independent chief, was a vassal of 

 the suzerain of Zanzibar. 



In 1846 the brig-of-war Le Ducoiiedic, of the 

 naval division of Bourbon, M. Guillain, Capital ne de 

 Vaisseau, commanding, was charged, amongst other com- 

 mercial and political interests, with insisting upon severe 

 measures to punish the murderers. In vain His Highness 

 Sayyid Said protested that Mazungera was beyond his 

 reach ; the fact of the robber-chief having been seen at 

 Mbuamaji on the coast after the murder was deemed con- 

 clusive evidence to the contrary. At length the Sayyid 

 despatched up-country three or four hundred musketeers, 

 mercenaries, and slaves, under command of Juma Mfum- 

 bi, the late, and Bori, the present, Diwan of Saadani. 

 The little troop marched some distance into the country, 

 when they were suddenly confronted by the Wazaramo, 

 commanded by Hembe, the son of Mazungera, who, 

 after skirmishing for a couple of days, fled wounded by 

 a matchlock-ball. The chief result of the expedition 

 was the capture of a luckless clansman who had beaten 

 the war-drum during the murder. He was at once 

 transferred to Zanzibar, and passed off* by these trans- 

 parent African diplomatists as P'hazi Mazungera. For 

 nearly two years he was chained in front of the French 

 Consulate; after that time he was placed in the fort 



