Etchings of a Whaling Cruise With Notes of a Sojourn On the Island of Zanzibar
Etchings of a Whaling Cruise With Notes of a Sojourn On the Island of Zanzibar
Browne John Ross
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From the bay nothing is seen but a pile of roofs, commencing apparently at the water s edge, and, rising gradually, it reaches the base of the mountain. Upon a nearer approach, a barrier of rude stone walls is perceptible. This incloses the whole front of the town, and forms a sort of semicircle, the ends of which are blocked up against an immense pile of rocks. Entering by a dilapidated gateway, we struck into a by-alley ; but, following it up, we found that it was intersected by numerous alle...ys of the same description, and, in fact, found it impossi ble to get out of it without entering other alleys still narrower and more filthy. I inquired of a na tive the way into the town, and was told that we were just in the middle of it. The streets, if such they may be called, are nearly all alike, none of them being over five or six feet wide. Most of the houses are built of stone ; and, owing to the narrow ness of the streets, a continual draught of air passing CRAVING FOR TOBACCO. 271 between them renders the whole town cool even in that tropical climate.
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