Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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CHAPTER XIV.
Jumah's Death—Visit to liis Widow—Arab Mourners
Time of Mourning—Prospect of being married again
The Slave-market—Wretched Scene—Disgusting Conduct
of Dealers—A Farewell to Zanzibar and its various
Inhabitants, &c.
TTTE arrived at Zanzibar a few days after.
Since we had left that port Jumah,
our interpreter, had died of dysentery. He
was a great favourite, and an. amusing old
rogue. I was anxious to see his poor wife,
—that is to say, his principal and favourite wife,
the others could hardly be considered as wives,
to tell her that arrangements would be made
for her receiving the balance of pay and prizemoney
due to her late husband, whose death
she had been informed of before.
With Abdala,
Jumah's servant, who had acted
as our inter-