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heavily ironed to a gun under a cadjan shed, where he 

 could hardly stand or lie down. The unhappy wretch 

 died about a year ago, and Zanzibar lost one of its lions. 



After the slaughter of M. Maizan the direct route 

 through Dege la Mhora was long closed, it is said, and 

 is still believed, by a " ghul," a dragon or huge serpent, 

 who, of course, was supposed to be the demon-ghost of 

 the murdered man. The reader will rejoice to hear that 

 the miscreant Mazungera, who has evaded human, has 

 not escaped divine punishment. The miserable old man 

 is haunted by the P'hepo or spirit of the guest so foully 

 slain : the torments which he has brought upon himself 

 have driven him into a kind of exile; and his tribe, as 

 has been mentioned, has steadily declined from its former 

 position with even a greater decline in prospect. The 

 jealous national honour displayed by the French Go- 

 vernment on the occasion of M. Maizan's murder has 

 begun to bear fruit. 



Its sensitiveness contrasts well with our proceedings 

 on similar occasions. Rahmat, the murderer of Captain 

 Milne, still wanders free over the hills in sight of Aden. 

 By punishing the treacherous slaughter of a servant of 

 Government, the price of provisions at the coal-hole of 

 the East would have been raised. Au Ali, the mur- 

 derer of Lieut. Stroyan, is still at large in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Berberah, when a few dollars would have 

 brought in his bead. The burlesque of a blockade, — 

 Capt. Playfair, in a work previously characterised, has 

 officially mistermed it, to the astonishment of Aden, " a 

 rigid blockade," a " severe punishment," and so forth, — 

 was considered sufficient to chastise theSomal of Berberah 

 for their cowardly onslaught on strangers and guests ; 

 and though the people offered an equivalent for the 

 public and private property destroyed by them, the spirit 



