------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Superscripted characters are prefixed with ‘^’ and delimited by ‘{ }’. Footnotes have been gathered at the end of each chapter. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. ZANZIBAR. VOL. I. [Illustration: ANCIENT TOMB AT TONGO-NI.] ZANZIBAR: CITY, ISLAND, AND COAST. BY RICHARD F. BURTON. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE ST., STRAND. 1872. [_All Rights reserved._] --------------------- JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS. TO THE MEMORY OF MY OLD AND LAMENTED FRIEND, =John Frederick Steinhaeuser= (F.R.C.S., ETC. ETC., STAFF SURGEON, BOMBAY ARMY), THIS NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY, IN WHICH FATE PREVENTED HIS TAKING PART, IS INSCRIBED WITH THE DEEPEST FEELINGS OF AFFECTION AND REGRET. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. -------------- CHAPTER I. PAGE PREPARATORY 1 CHAPTER II. ARRIVAL AT ZANZIBAR ISLAND 16 CHAPTER III. HOW THE NILE QUESTION STOOD IN THE YEAR OF GRACE 1856 38 CHAPTER IV. A STROLL THROUGH ZANZIBAR CITY 66 CHAPTER V. GEOGRAPHICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL 116 SECT. I. AFRICA, EAST AND WEST—‘ZANZIBAR’ EXPLAINED— 116 MENOUTHIAS—POSITION AND FORMATION—THE EAST AFRICAN CURRENT—NAVIGATION—ASPECT OF THE ISLAND II. METEOROLOGICAL NOTES—THE DOUBLE SEASONS, &c. 150 III. CLIMATE CONTINUED—NOTES ON THE NOSOLOGY OF 176 ZANZIBAR—EFFECTS ON STRANGERS IV. NOTES ON THE FAUNA OF ZANZIBAR 197