Zanzibar Tales: Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa

Zanzibar Tales

Zanzibar Tales
Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa
Translated from the Original Swahili By George W. Bateman Illustrated by Walter Bobbett
Chicago A. C. McClurg & Co. 1901.

Copyright By A. C. McClurg & Co. A.D. 1901

Thirty years ago Central Africa was what people who are fond of airing their learning would call a terra incognita . To-day its general characteristics are pretty well known. Then, as now, the little island of Zanzibar, situated just south of the equator, on the east coast, was the starting place of all expeditions into the interior, and Unguja (pronounced Oon-goo′jah), the big town of that island, the place where the preparations for plunging into the unknown were made.