Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-27
ZANZIBAR

and when cured are almost black. AZ
| ter they are well dried they are pack
ed up in bags. and In that shape are
| sent to Europe and the United States.
| The English have another Glove island
| known as Pemha. which lies q little
north OF Zanzibar, and is governed
| from here These two islands produce
| more than 30 per cent OF all the
cloves raised in the world.
ZANZIBAR CITY.
The capital OF Zanzibar is Zanzibar
city. II Is the chief port of East Az
RIGA, foreign goods being sent from
here 10 the mainland and carried across
to Lake Tanganyika and other parts OF
the continent. At the same time ivory
hides ana the various native products
are brought here to be shipped TO Eii-
rope 80 that the place has great
trade.
As you approach the city from the
sea it makes you think OF southern
Europe, The shore is lined with three
story buildings built of stone or
brick, covered with-stucco and painted
M ell colors OF the rainbow There are
blue buildings, white buildings, green
mixed together The town appears
twice as big as IT is and II looks
both Imposing and beautiful. Right out
M the center on the edge of the sea
rises the sultan's palace, and farther
down 10 the south are the buildings OF
the British consulate. which look like
white marble castle
AS YOU come nearer the marble turns
TO whitewash; and the sultan's palace
dwindles In grandeur until It looks like
one or our great seaside hotels II is
IN iact. tree-stnry building OF wood
painted yellow, with galleries running
about 1t from story to story. These
galleries are about 90 feet wide and
they are for all the world like hotel
porohes. The roof is red. and. as il
seems TO cover roof garden. the hotel
erect IL sim moro I'm evidence. II is
there that the sultan lives with his nu
inerous wives. | do not know how many
dusky ladies' there are In the harem.
His majesty is a Mohammedan and he
keeps such things to himself / only
KNOW that the soldiers are ALWAYS
guarding the doors and that the can
non at the entrance seemed to frown at
me as | passed by There IL no roval-
", however about the looks OF the pal
ace, and there is but little power in the
hands of tho young man of 90 who lives
there and pretonds to reign.
THE SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR.
indeed the glory of this sutanate Is
fast passing away II once controlled
almost the whole of East Africa. The
sultan had all the territory that now
belongs TO the Germans. reaching as far
east as Lake Tanganyika, and also the
whole OF the coast lands of British
East Africa, extending almost to Ara
MA. He was one of the great slave
dealers OF the world, / recently went
through the slave market where some
or this young sultans ancestors sold
negro slaves for American consume
tion. and stopped In a hotel named
after Tipoo T1b the great slave deal
err who aided Stanley In his exnIora-
tons. When Tipoo lib died rot long
ago he left more than 300 black wives
Within recent years the British have
abolished slavery, but understand |
there are some who are still slaves al |
though nominally free.
AS to the sultan of today his income |
and from his own private estates. The |
s largely from the British government, |
British hold tho protectorate over his |
dominions on perpetual lease. for |
which they pay him SS5, 900 year: and |
the Germans have secured the fee simple |
title to the lands which formerly be- |
longed to his father upon the payment |
of something like $3.50, 900 cash.
l am not sure as to lust what the 4
sultan is worth. for his purse is kept |
separate form the general revenue of |
the country, and the taxes are used by |
the British under the direction of the |
British consul general / only know
hat he has enough to live In consid- |
'rable state, and to keep up magnificent
stables, comprising the finest OF Arab
an horses. He has probably a large
number OF female slaves in his palaces
md i am told there are thousands OF