APPENDIX II. A. B. THERMOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS IN EAST AFRICA 426 APPENDIX II. C. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 433 APPENDIX III. OBSERVATIONS DURING A VOYAGE OF RESEARCH ON THE EAST 458 COAST OF AFRICA NOTES TO APPENDIX III. 514 ZANZIBAR. -------------- PART II. THE COAST AND THE INTERIOR. ZANZIBAR. ------- CHAPTER I. FROM ZANZIBAR TO MOMBASAH. Urbis ab angusto tractu quâ vergit in Austrum, Planities vicina patet: nam cætera Pontus Circuit, exiguo dirimi se tramite passus. C. CLAUD, IN RUF. lib. 2. 348. On Monday, January 5, 1857, began our trial trip, which homely term was justly written large as ‘tentative expedition,’ by the then President of the Royal Geographical Society. But a stiff north-easter blowing dead in our teeth, the crew of the Riámi would not wear round by day, and at night all showed a predilection for the ‘Safar khoriyah,’ i. e. anchoring in some snug bay. Consequently the old tub, with knees and mast loose like a slaver’s, did not make Kokoto-ni, the usual departure point from Zanzibar Island, till 7 A. M. on January 8.