Mr Lyons M’Leod says (vol. ii. 347) that a ‘very handsome jet-black parrot’ is to be procured there. Footnote 49: The χελώνη ὀρεινὴ, or mountain-tortoise of the Periplus (chap. i. 15), may have been a turtle or terrapin. A small quantity of tortoise-shell is sold on the island by Malagashes (Madagascarians) and Comoro men. Footnote 50: The iguana abounds on the West Coast of Africa, and in the Bonny River, where the huge hideous lizard is Ju-Ju—obnoxious to the honours of divinity. Footnote 51: So Dr Roschenberger mentions at Zanzibar a coluber called boa- constrictor, and peculiar to America. Footnote 52: I have not seen the ‘Fishes of Zanzibar,’ published in 1867 by Lieut.- Col. Playfair, H.M.’s Consul, and Dr Günther (Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row). Footnote 53: The eel-shaped fishes with green bones have the reputation of causing stomach-pains and vomiting. I may observe that the Oriental mind readily connects venom and verdant colours. Footnote 54: Nází, in Kisawahili, is the fruit, Mnází the tree: in this case the initial letter is evidently a contraction of Mti, a tree. The name for the sun-dried meat, ‘kobra,’ is borrowed from the Hindustani ‘khopra.’ Footnote 55: I shall speak of the clove in a subsequent chapter. Footnote 56: The Hindu anna, which contains four pice, is here reckoned at eight. Footnote 57: The mango pickles of Makdishu are described by Ibu Batutah in A.D. 1331. Footnote 58: Missionary of the Southern Baptist Connexion. He published a book of Travels in Western Africa, and a Grammar and Dictionary of the Yoruba language, printed by the Smithsonian Institution (May, 1858). Footnote 59: The ‘hot amourist’ pronounces this drink to be الامساک کثير Footnote 60: The seeds cannot easily be digested. Thus the lower regions of Fernando Po are a thicket of guava, suggesting the Jackal-coffee of the Neilgherries. Footnote 61: According to my friend Mr P. L. Simmonds (The Journal of Applied Science) this bast fetches readily £14 to £15 per ton, and ‘although the paper makers will buy any quantity brought to market, it is to be regretted that they will offer no combined assistance to facilitate the obtaining larger supplies of this important product.’ Footnote 62: The Inzimbati (a leguminosa) and Invoulí of Capt. Guillain. Footnote 63: Palpably a corruption of the Portuguese Grâo—grain generally. Footnote 64: I have read in some book that the ‘Pywaree’ of Guiana is made from the masticated and fermented juice of the cassava-‘flower’—probably for— ‘flour.’ Footnote 65: I heard also of antimony on the Brazilian coast, opposite the Island of S. Sebastião, in the Province of S. Paulo, but I have not seen any specimens of it. CHAPTER VI. VISIT TO THE PRINCE SAYYID MAJID.—THE GOVERNMENT OF ZANZIBAR.