List of Illustrations

Page
[“Throw mesome food, my friend”]18
[“Miss Poonda,I am sent to ask your hand in marriage”]23
[Bookoo and the harestarted off immediately]33
[Soongoora crept outand ran away while the lion was looking up]35
[The lion continuedrubbing on a piece of rock]39
[The lion, thehyena, and the rabbit go in for a little farming]49
[Said the hyena,“I’m thinking”]51
[“I should saynot”]59
[They found himlying down]63
[When they found thegazelle they beat it]75
[“Mother, weare always hungry”]83
[“Where areyou going, son of Adam?”]89
[Neeoka filled thebag with chains of gold and silver]93
[Dropping thediamond wrapped in leaves into the sultan’s lap] 115
[The gazelle weptwith the old woman]147
[They creptcautiously through the bushes]167
[They camped for thenight]173
[The magician gavethe youth all the keys]185
[Right into the bigpot!]191
[“I scared himaway”]215

Zanzibar Tales.

I.

The Monkey, the Shark, and the Washerman’s Donkey.

Once upon a time Kee′ma, the monkey, and Pa′pa, the shark, became great friends.

The monkey lived in an immense mkooyoo tree which grew by the margin of the sea—half of its branches being over the water and half over the land.