Book/Printed Material Zanzibar: city, island, and coast. Volume 1
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Image 10 of Volume 1 UT 3 j B JOHN CHILDS AND SON JRINTBRS -
Image 11 of Volume 1 THE MEMORY OF MY OLD AND LAMENTED FRIEND Jjcrljn Jfrcirmdi Stchtlntcuser FRCS ETC ETC STAFF SURGEON BOMBAY ARMY THIS NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY IN WHICH FATE PREVENTED HIS TAKING PART IS INSCRIBED… -
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Image 13 of Volume 1 CONTENTS OF VOL I CHAPTER I PAGE PREPARATORY 1 CHAPTER II ARRIVAL AT ZANZIBAR ISLAND 16 CHAPTER III HOW THE NILE QUESTION STOOD IN THE YEAR OF GRACE 1856 38 CHAPTER IV… -
Image 14 of Volume 1 V1U CONTENTS CHAPTER VI PAGB VISIT TO THE PRINCE SAYYID MAJIDTHE GOVERNMENT OF ZAN ZIBAR CHAPTER VII A CHRONICLE OF ZANZIBARTHE CAREER OF THE LATE IMAM SAYYID SAID CHAPTER VIII ETHNOLOGY OF… -
Image 15 of Volume 1 PREFACE I feel that the reader will expect some allusion to the circumstances which have delayed till 1871 the publication of a journal ready to appear in 1860 The following letter will… -
Image 16 of Volume 1 X PREFACE When searching the strong hox belonging to the Bombay Branch of the Boyal Asiatic Society yesterday I found the accompanying parcel directed to the Secretary Royal Geographical Society with a… -
Image 17 of Volume 1 PREFACE xi so the Letts containing my excursions to Saadani and to Kilwa also came to temporary grief Annexed by a skipper on the West African coast appropriated by his widow and… -
Image 18 of Volume 1 PREFACE xii earlier portion of his peregrinations and who has so ably and efficiently performed his part as editor Had a cer tain publisher carried out his expressed intention of intro ducing… -
Image 19 of Volume 1 ZANZIBAR PART I THE CITY AND THE ISLAND Of a territory within a fortnights sail of us we scarcely know more than we do of much of Central Africa infinitely less than… -
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Image 22 of Volume 1 ZANZIBAR CHAPTER I PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE AVe were now landed upon the Continent of Africa the most desolate desert and inhospitable country in the world even Greenland and Nova Zembla itself not… -
Image 23 of Volume 1 9 JOIN THE BASHI BUZUKS have closed over their dead during those short ten yearsthat epitome of the past And when the lesson strikes the head The weary heart grows cold The… -
Image 24 of Volume 1 THE BASHI BUZUKS IN THE CRIMEA 3 of our troubleshow the military world de clared us to he a hand of banditti au irreclaim able savagery how a man who then called… -
Image 25 of Volume 1 4 VOLUNTEER FOR KARS aciously kept pitched on a hare hillside far from the scene of action and close to the Dar danelles country town that gay and lively Turk ish Coventry… -
Image 26 of Volume 1 RENEW EXPLORATION OF AFRICA 5 Reported home as a brouillon and turbu lent I again turned lovingly towards Africa Central and Intertropicaland on April 19 1856 I resolved to renew my original… -
Image 27 of Volume 1 6 MOTIVES FOR EXPLORING AFRICA our march to the Tanganyika Lake was a paper De Azania Africse littore Orientali Commen tatio Pliysiologica Bonvise Pormis Caroli Gen gii mdccclii kindly sent to me… -
Image 28 of Volume 1 THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY This is happier and truer to antiquity than the doubts of Jos4 Basilio da Gama the sombre range Virginal neer by foot of man profaned Where rise Niles… -
Image 29 of Volume 1 8 DESPATCHED TO EQUATORIAL AFRICA of the active part which Viceadmiral Sir George Back the veteran explorer of the Arctic regions had taken in urging the expedition and in pro posing me… -
Image 30 of Volume 1 DIFFICULTIES AND OBSTACLES 9 posed to build a fort at Berberah and to buy all the nonOttoman ports on the western shores of the Bed Sea for the trifle of 10000 In… -
Image 31 of Volume 1 10 LIEUT SPEKE mg us waiting from April 23 1855 to June 13 1857 the spoliator of Oude was pleased to inform us laconically and disdaining explanation that he could not accede… -
Image 32 of Volume 1 ANGLOINDIAN MISMANA GEMENT 11 not savages and malaria but civilized rivalry and vis inertiae and that the requisites for success were time means and freedom from official trammels Hardly had we reached… -
Image 33 of Volume 1 12 CENSURED FROM HOME branch of the Indian Government Thismed dling in politics was viewed with displeasure by Government and reminded me of the old saying Wha mells wi what anither does… -
Image 34 of Volume 1 DR J F STEINHAEUSER 13 Frushard IN to convoy us knowing how much importance Orientals attach to appearances especially to first appearances My father Frusliard gained nothing by the voyage hut the… -
Image 35 of Volume 1 14 LOSS OF DR STEIN HA EUSER could not make Zanzibar in time The journey through the Northeastern horn of Africa would alone have given a title to Fame Its danger and… -
Image 36 of Volume 1 TESTIMONIES TO HIS WORTH 15 memory is doubly dear to me He was one of the very few who through evil as well as through good report disdained to abate an iota… -
Image 37 of Volume 1 CHAPTER II ARRIVAL AT ZANZIBAR ISLAND There is probably no part of the world where the English Government has so long had a Resident where there are always some halfadozen merchants and… -
Image 38 of Volume 1 A JOURNEY 17 lands Shaking off with one mighty effort thefet ters of Habit the leaden weight of Routine the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Home man feels once… -
Image 39 of Volume 1 18 FATHER FRUSHARD tant above 1000 miles Under all circumstances the distance was undesirable moreover violent squalls between the Persian Gulf and Cape Guardafui sometimes depress the mercury half an inch I… -
Image 40 of Volume 1 OUR LANDFALL 19 ated enfants terribles and lacking but one little dispensation of natureconcerning which Hum boldt treatsto become the best of wetnurses The Elphinstone belonged not to the category Shippe of…
About this Item
Title
- Zanzibar: city, island, and coast.
Names
- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Created / Published
- London, Tinsley brothers, 1872.
Headings
- - Ethnology--Tanzania--Zanzibar
- - Africa, East--Description and travel
- - Zanzibar--Description and travel
Notes
- - Includes bibliographical references.
Medium
- 2 v. 5 maps (1 fold.), plates. 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DT435 .B9
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 05010996
OCLC Number
- 3816910
Online Format
- online text
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