Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

THE CRUISE OF THE " PANTALOON." 109
I have very many pleasant reminiscences,
both of this time and when out there a year
or two later, of the agreeable entertainments
of Mr. and Mrs. Churchill at the British
Consulate, the musical parties of Mr. and Mrs.
White at the German Consulate, and of the
enjoyable hours with Dr. and Mrs. Seaward
and their bright little daughter Winny, then
about five years of age, whose only playmates
consisted of the ofi&cers of the ships, who
looked upon her as the property of the Navy,
and whom she often addressed in her little,
wicked, womanly way by their Christian
names, with a comic air of authority, and
of whom I once heard a mother say, " I
always thought my child (whom I have left
in Europe) clever, but ever since I have
known that child I almost feel disappointed
with my own." Nor must I forget to mention
our Mend Bishop Tozer, who every Sunday,
when we were at Zanzibar, made the ship his
cathedral, and who was always too good not
to remember that, if half his congregation were
churchmen, the other half were dissenters;