92 P E M B A. 
We got very fine bullocks, goats, poultry, rice, dholl, cocoa-nut 
oil, &c. Their fruits are very delicious ^ and they have all kinds.'* 
The provisions supplied to the fleet during its stay at Zanzebar 
amounted to about 2500 dollars. (Vide, for a more particular 
account, pages 35-6 and 7, of the same work.) 
The Island of Pemba is low and about fourteen leagues long, 
and is represented to be still more fertile and woody than Zan- 
zebar. Captain Fisher spoke in terms of rapture with respect to 
its aspect, climate, and resources. Its chief has long been 
desirous of putting himself under the protection of the English, 
and the offer was actually made to the Bombay Government. 
Should we retain the Isles of France, which our interests in India 
seem to demand, I should think this ofler might prove worthy of 
the attention of the British Government, as, connected with 
these islands, it might prove a valuable settlement, from its 
affording a considerable export of corn and cattle. These articles 
hitherto have been carried to Zanzebar, to supply food for great 
numbers of slaves, which are generally kept ready for exportation 
on that island. 
The situation and state of Monfia are at present absolutely 
unknown ; though it is said to resemble the others in fertility. 
September 24th. — 4t three in the morning we were alarmed 
with a violent rippling in the water, resembling the noise of 
breakers, which probably proceeded from the meeting of two 
currents ; for on heaving the lead, we found no bottom with ^ 
seventy-five fathoms of line. In the morning the water began 
to change its colour, and at nine o'clock A.M. we found our- 
selves in thirty-two fathoms, sand and shells, with the land 
