SIN JOHN KINK AT HOME. 
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Sayyid Barghash’s sandals, I never believed to exist. 
The feet and hands of the Sultan of Zanzibar are the 
most beautifully formed I ever saw in a man, and he 
is justly proud of them; but alas ! his symmetry ends 
at his ankles, for he is afflicted with elephantiasis—a 
not uncommon disease in Zanzibar, and his limbs are 
swollen and misshapen. Though he speaks no lan- 
Fig. 11.—Zanzibar Orchids. 
guages but Arabic and Swahili, he is a better-read 
man than many a contemporary Eastern Sovereign, 
and even aspires to the honours of an author. 
One day four or five servants of the Sultan arrived 
at the Consulate, bearing about a dozen volumes of a 
work in Arabic. This was Part I. of a Digest of 
Mohammedan .Jurisprudence written by the Sultan, 
and presented with his compliments to the British 
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