CHAPTER II 
ZANZIBAR. 
IT is not our object to occupy the reader with any 
very lengthened account of Zanzibar, not that it 
does not possess enough of interest to render it worthy 
of the most attentive consideration, but we have other 
work in hand, and Zanzibar has been described by 
almost every traveller who has visited East Africa. 
Burton has dealt with it in his "Lake Regions of 
Central Africa," and lately, still more exhaustively, 
in his "Zanzibar," 1870. Speke has also treated of 
it ; and Stanley has touched upon it in his book. 
However, as it is not unlikely that the present work 
will circulate in quarters which the above valuable, 
but more costly, books may not have reached ; as, 
too, it may be of some importance that more than 
one view should be presented of the same subject ; 
and as we are anxious to give a pretty general view 
of Eastern Africa, it will hardly do to overlook the 
metropolis ; and a few particulars concerning it may 
be expected. 
Zanzibar is a corruption of the term first applied 
to the whole coast, and meaning by a free translation, 
according to the best authorities, the " Land of the 
