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. | |||
| A STROLL THROUGH ZANZIBAR CITY | [66] | ||
| CHAPTER V. | |||
| GEOGRAPHICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL | [116] | ||
| Sect. | I. | AFRICA, EAST AND WEST—‘ZANZIBAR’ EXPLAINED—MENOUTHIAS—POSITION AND FORMATION—THE EAST AFRICAN CURRENT—NAVIGATION—ASPECT OF THE ISLAND | [116] |
| II. | METEOROLOGICAL NOTES—THE DOUBLE SEASONS, &c. | [150] | |
| III. | CLIMATE CONTINUED—NOTES ON THE NOSOLOGY OF ZANZIBAR—EFFECTS ON STRANGERS | [176] | |
| IV. | NOTES ON THE FAUNA OF ZANZIBAR | [197] | |
| V. | NOTES ON THE FLORA OF ZANZIBAR | [218] | |
| VI. | THE INDUSTRY OF ZANZIBAR | [252] | |
| CHAPTER VI. | |||
| VISIT TO THE PRINCE SAYYID MAJID.—THE GOVERNMENT OF ZANZIBAR | [256] | ||
| CHAPTER VII. | |||
| A CHRONICLE OF ZANZIBAR.—THE CAREER OF THE LATE ‘IMAM,’ SAYYID SAID | [276] | ||
| CHAPTER VIII. | |||
| ETHNOLOGY OF ZANZIBAR.—THE FOREIGN RESIDENTS | [312] | ||
| CHAPTER IX. | |||
| HORSEFLESH AT ZANZIBAR.—THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY, AND THE CLOVE PLANTATIONS | [346] | ||
| CHAPTER X. | |||
| ETHNOLOGY OF ZANZIBAR.—THE ARABS | [368] | ||
| CHAPTER XI. | |||
| ETHNOLOGY OF ZANZIBAR.—THE WASAWAHILI AND THE SLAVE RACES | [407] | ||
| CHAPTER XII. | |||
| PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE | [469] | ||
| APPENDIX. | |||
| THE UKARA OR UKEREWE LAKE | [490] | ||
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 explain the recovery of a long report, forwarded by me in 1857, under an address, very legibly written in ink, upon its cover, to the late Dr Norton Shaw, then Secretary Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain.
‘No. 9, of 1865.
‘General Department,
Bombay Castle, 28th February, 1865.
‘To
The Under Secretary of State for India,