The value of the exports from this port is estimated at $3,000,000,
and the imports from all countries at $3,500,000.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are
either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a
few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

The climate of Zanzibar is not the most agreeable in the world. I
have heard Americans and Europeans condemn it most heartily. I
have also seen nearly one-half of the white colony laid up in one
day from sickness. A noxious malaria is exhaled from the shallow
inlet of Malagash, and the undrained filth, the garbage, offal,
dead mollusks, dead pariah dogs, dead cats, all species of carrion,
remains of men and beasts unburied, assist to make Zanzibar a most
unhealthy city; and considering that it it ought to be most healthy,
nature having pointed out to man the means, and having assisted him
so far, it is most wonderful that the ruling prince does not obey
the dictates of reason.

The bay of Zanzibar is in the form of a crescent, and on the
south-western horn of it is built the city. On the east Zanzibar
is bounded almost entirely by the Malagash Lagoon, an inlet of
the sea. It penetrates to at least two hundred and fifty yards of
the sea behind or south of Shangani Point. Were these two hundred
and fifty yards cut through by a ten foot ditch, and the inlet
deepened slightly, Zanzibar would become an island of itself, and
what wonders would it not effect as to health and salubrity! I
have never heard this suggestion made, but it struck me that the
foreign consuls resident at Zanzibar might suggest this work to the
Sultan, and so get the credit of having made it as healthy a place