ABSTRACT
IT is not our object to occupy the reader with any very lengthened account of Zanzibar, not that it does not possess enough of interest to render it worthy of the most attentive consideration, but we have other work in hand, and Zanzibar has been described by almost every traveller who has visited East Africa. Burton has dealt with it in his “Lake Regions of Central Africa,” and lately, still more exhaustively, in his “Zanzibar,” 1870. Speke has also treated oi it; and Stanley has touched upon it in his book. However, as it is not unlikely that the present work will circulate in quarters which the above valuable, but more costly, books may not have reached; as, too, it may be of some importance that more than one view should be presented of the same subject; and as we are anxious to give a pretty general view of Eastern Africa, it will hardly do to overlook the metropolis; and a few particulars concerning it may be expected.
