sea-inlet, with some dhows, canoes, boats, an odd steam-tub or two,
leaning over on their sides in a sea of mud which the tide has just
left behind it; of a place called "M'nazi-Moya," "One Cocoa-tree,"
whither Europeans wend on evenings with most languid steps, to
inhale the sweet air that glides over the sea, while the day is
dying and the red sun is sinking westward; of a few graves of
dead sailors, who paid the forfeit of their lives upon arrival
in this land; of a tall house wherein lives Dr. Tozer, "Missionary
Bishop of Central Africa," and his school of little Africans; and
of many other things, which got together into such a tangle, that
I had to go to sleep, lest I should never be able to separate
the moving images, the Arab from the African; the African from
the Banyan; the Banyan from the Hindi; the Hindi from the European,
&c.

Zanzibar is the Bagdad, the Ispahan, the Stamboul, if you like, of
East Africa. It is the great mart which invites the ivory traders
from the African interior. To this market come the gum-copal, the
hides, the orchilla weed, the timber, and the black slaves from
Africa. Bagdad had great silk bazaars, Zanzibar has her ivory
bazaars; Bagdad once traded in jewels, Zanzibar trades in
gum-copal; Stamboul imported Circassian and Georgian slaves;
Zanzibar imports black beauties from Uhiyow, Ugindo, Ugogo,
Unyamwezi and Galla.

The same mode of commerce obtains here as in all Mohammedan
countries--nay, the mode was in vogue long before Moses was born.
The Arab never changes. He brought the custom of his forefathers
with him when he came to live on this island. He is as much of an
Arab here as at Muscat or Bagdad; wherever he goes to live he