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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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250 DHOW-CHASING.<br />

anticipation of such a long imprisonment. As<br />

I quitted the room the wail<strong>in</strong>g was commenced<br />

aga<strong>in</strong> by the other wives, whose prospects of<br />

marry<strong>in</strong>g aga<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong><br />

five months I did not <strong>in</strong>quire<br />

<strong>in</strong>to, but probably their chance was not so<br />

great, see<strong>in</strong>g that they had no pay or prizemoney<br />

com<strong>in</strong>g to them.<br />

Before we take our leave of <strong>Zanzibar</strong> let<br />

us<br />

walk through the town and look at the slavemarket.<br />

Wombwell's menagerie makes a great<br />

sensation <strong>in</strong> our countrv towns and villages,<br />

but the cockney looks upon it <strong>in</strong> a very different<br />

manner, he has seen it a dozen times<br />

before, and if he steps <strong>in</strong>, it is merely by accident<br />

; if you watch him for a moment you will<br />

see that his attention is attracted more by the<br />

strangers<br />

around him than by the wild beasts.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>in</strong>difference with which he regards the<br />

noble animals encaged there as compared with<br />

the wonder<strong>in</strong>g gaze of the rustic, presents a<br />

fair parallel to the different sensations which<br />

a European experiences on his first view of the<br />

slave-market on his first visit, and at subsequent<br />

periods when familiarity has blunted the

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