Frontispiece Zanzibar from the sea, c. 1860
Plate 1 Zanzibar from the sea, c.1857
Plate 2 Seyyid Said bin Sultan
Plate 3 Fort Jesus, Mombasa, c.1857
Plate 4 Mwinyi Mkuu Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Hasan Alawi
Plate 5 Coconut oil milling using camel power
Plate 6 Chake Chake Fort, Pemba, c. 1857
Plate 7 Clove picking in Pemba
Plate 8 Zanzibar harbour, 1886
Plate 9 Ahmed bin Nu’man
Plate 10 Landing horses from Sultana, London, 1842
Plate 11 Ivory market at Bagamoyo, 1890s
Plate 12 Indian nautch in Zanzibar, c.1860
Plate 13 Zanzibar crowded with dhows
Plate 14 Dhow careening facilities in the Zanzibar creek
Plate 15 Sokokuu fruit market under the walls of the Old Fort
Plate 16 View of Zanzibar town, c. 1885
Plate 17 Forodhani – Zanzibar sea-front
Plate 18 Ground plan of an Arab house in Zanzibar
Plate 19 Zanzibar architecture
Plate 20 The carved Zanzibar door
Plate 21 Horse racing on the Mnazi Mmoja, Zanzibar, c.1846
Plate 22 An Indian shop in Zanzibar, c. 1860
Plate 23 Hamali porters in Zanzibar
Plate 24 A slave caravan approaching the coast
Plate 25 Bagamoyo, c. 1887
Plate 26 An ivory caravan approaching Morogoro, c. 1887
Plate 27 Porters of the interior
Plate 28 Arab traders visiting Livingstone and Stanley at Kwihara
Plate 29 Ujiji, 1871
Plate 30 Tippu Tip, Arab trader of the Congo
Plate 31 Seyyid Barghash bin Said
Plate 32 Slave dhow chasing in the Indian Ocean
Plate 33 Slaves captured by H.M.S. London, 1870s
Plate 34 Zanzibar town and harbour after the hurricane, 1872
Acknowledgements for illustrations
Plates 1, 3 and 6 from R.F. Burton, Zanzibar: City, Island Coast (2 vols, 1872); Plates 2, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17, 23, 31 and 33 from The Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Plates 4, 5, 12, 19, 22 and frontispiece from Carl von der Decken, Reisen in Ost-Afrika (1869); Plate 7 from Abdul Sheriff; Plate 8 from H.H. Johnson, The Kilima-Njaro Expedition (1886); Plate 10 from The London Illustrated News, 18th June 1842; Plates 15 and 16 from V. Giraud, Les Lacs de l’Afrique Equatoriale (1890); Plate 18 from ‘The Stone Town of Zanzibar: A Strategy for Integrated Development’, a technical report commissioned by the UN Centre for Human Settlement, 1983; Plate 21 from J. R. Browne, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar (1846); Plates 24, 25 and 26 from Baur and Le Roy, A Travers le Zanguebar (1886); Plate 27 from R.F. Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa (2 vols, 1860); Plate 28 from H.M. Stanley, How I Found Livingstone (1872); Plate 29 from M.G. Alexis, Stanley L’Africain (1890); Plate 30 from H.M. Stanley In Darkest Africa (1890); Plate 32 from P. H. Colomb, Slave Catching in the Indian Ocean (1873); Plate 34 from Harper’s Weekly, 5th July 1873.
Maps, Graphs and Tables
MAPS
2.1 The East African slave trade
4.1 Zanzibar: the entrepot, 1846 and 1895
4.2a Differential taxation and the centralisation of trade, 1848
4.2b Differential taxation and the centralisation of trade, 1872–3
5.1 The hinterland of Zanzibar, c. 1873
6.1 The East African slave trade, 1860s
GRAPHS
2.1 Cloves and slaves: production and prices
3.1 Prices of ivory and merekani, 1802/3–1873/4
3.2 Ivory imports into the United Kingdom, 1792–1875
TABLES
2.1 The northern slave trade, 1831 and 1841
2.2 Imports and exports of grains and cereals from Zanzibar, 1859/60–1866/7
2.3 Cloves: production, export and prices, 1830–79
2.4 Value of cloves from Unguja and Pemba, 1859/60–1864/5
2.5 Emancipation of slaves held by Indians, 1860–1
2.6 Prices of slaves at Zanzibar, 1770–1874
3.1 The
