The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-28

are always guarding the doors and that I the cannon at the entrance seemed to frown at me as I passed by There Is no 1 royalty, however, about the looks of the palace, and there is but little power in the hands of the young man of B who lives there and pretends to reign
 The Sultan of Zanzibar. ] Indeed the glory of this sultanate is fast passing away It once controlled all most the whole of East Africa. The sul- tan had all the territory that now be- longs to the Germans, reaching as far east as Lake Tanganyika, and also the whole of the coast lands of British East l Africa, extending almost to Arabia. He l was one of the greatest slave dealers of the world. I recently went through the slave market, where some of this young l sultan's ancestors sold negro slaves for 1 American consumption, and I stopped in hotel named after Tipoo Tib, the great slave dealer who aided Stanley in hls explorations. When Tipoo Tib died not long ago he left more than 300 black wives. Within recent years the British l have abolished slavery, but I understand l that there are some who are still slaves although nominally free.
 AS to the sultan of today his income is largely from the British government, and from his own private estates The
 
 dominons on a perpetual lease, for which they pay him s85,0OO year; and the Germans have secured the fee simple l title to the lands which formerly be- longed to his father upon the payment of something like s1,25o,ooO cash.
 I am not sure as to just what the : sultan is worth. for his purse is kept separate from the general revenues of the country; and the taxes are used by the a of ba Brit iGIl consul general. I only know that he has enough to live in considerable state, and to keep up magnificent stables, compris- ing the finest of Arabian horses. He has probably large number of female slaves in his palaces and l am told there are thousands of women who are kept in slavery by the Arab officials and mer chants here.
 An Arab City.
 The Arabs are still the lords of Zanzi- bar, although the British act as rulers. They own the greater part of the island, they have the clove plantations and they work the native Africans to the limit. 1 They go about in turbans and gowns; and the city looks more like a part of Egypt or India than of Central Africa. The streets are narrow and winding. The i, buildings are high, with barred windows. They have enormous doors. plated with big-headed nails, making every house look like prison. Some of the streets have the walls so close together that carriages cannot enter them and all are so mar row that the cabs have bells like dinner gongs. which they keep ringing as they drive through the streets to warn the peo- pie to get out of the way
 The whole place is a combination of squalor and splendor. Some of the shab- biest houses have doors of teak wood so beautiful that they would ornament any Fifth avenue palace, and these doors open into the meanest of shops and ware houses. The architecture throughout is Mohammedan, and the best clad people on the streets are those who wear tur- bans and gowns. Many of the Arab mer- chants dye their boards q brick dust red, and I see scores of women who go about completely covered by yellow gowns which fall without break from their heads to their feet. Their faces are en- tirely covered, and each girl looks out through a little network of white cords woven over a hole not larger than visit ing card, and that so closely that one cannot see the eyes behind
 Ten Thousand Hindoos.
 About one-sixth of the inhabitants of Zanzibar come from East India. There are more than ten thousand Hlndoos and also Kings. Parsees and Brahmans. These people are from all parts of Him doostan, and they have many strange costumes. I see little black girls whose arms and legs are loaded with gold ana silver jewery. They wear tight pantalets which fall to their ankles and are fringei kthere with lace They have also coat (which comes to the knees. There are