. Autour du jardin de l'homme noir . ioiitedto trouver que nous étions dans l'eau douce, havingentra le canal, trente milles de large, qui isentre Zanzibar et le continent. Le chatterin avait l'air plat et peu intéressant à l'extrême, tandis que l'île de Zanzibar, à proximité sur notre gauche, est laisseux et couvert d'arbres bien cultivés et de brousse. Sur l'une des collines, une grande maison m'a été pointue qui avait été construite par le regretté Sultanfor pour ses nombreuses femmes, à son retour de Bombay, où il avait été exilé par l'un de ses trente-trois frères, et avait acquis des idées civilisées

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. Round the black man's garden . ioiitedto find that we were in smooth water, havingentered the channel, thirty miles wide, which isbetween Zanzibar and the mainland. The latterlooked flat and uninteresting in the far distance, while the island of Zanzibar, close on our left, washilly and covered with well-grown trees and thickbush. On one of the hills a big house was pointedout to me which had been built by the late Sultanfor his many wives, on his return from Bombay, where he had been exiled by one of his thirteenbrothers, and had there acquired civilised ideas.These to some extent he tried to work out in hislittle kingdom when, after his brothers death, heresumed his reign. At his own death he left eachof these wives a small private fortune and the bighouse to live in all together. At 11 A.M. we dropped anchor a short distancefrom the town of Zanzibar. Several English andGerman men-of-war were already in the harbour, collected there on account of the disturbances thatwere continually springing up on the mainland, and. ZANZIBAR. 71 our fellow-passenger, the German officer, receivedan order from his Admiral that he was to take com-mand at once, and go and inspect some place downthe coast. Havino^ sent the letter of introduction GeneralHopo: had o;iven us for the Consul-General, ColonelEuan Smith, we decided to wait for the answerbefore going ashore; so I set to work and sketchedthe to^U, which looked very picturesque, althoughrather spoilt as a picture by the Sultans hideouspalace, —a high, square, whitewashed building, witha narrow wooden gallery running round the firstfloor, looking entirely out of proportion to the restof the buildino;. It was a decided contrast to theEnglish Consulate. This was built on the extremepoint of land, so that the waves were ever dashingthemselves on to the walls of the terraced walksurrounding the house; and, unlike the palace, ithad a wide, covered, and cool - looking verandah.The Captain told me the latter had been added byColonel Eu

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