ZANZIBAR. 9 lookers who have no intention of buying, but, attracted by the chink of money, must have their say about the bargain to be made. Carpenters, blacksmiths, sandal-makers ; dealers in calico, Manchester goods, iron, &c., retailers of food, fruit, medicine, tobacco and various odds and ends, gun-menders, barbers, tailors, and letter-writers form part of the motley crowd.

Leaving this Babel we enter the custom-house yard, where a different, though scarcely less animated, scene meets the view. Two or three steamers are lying in the harbour discharging or embarking cargo, and half a score of dhows left high and dry by the receding tide are undergoing the same operations. Heavily-laden lighters are passing to and fro between the steamers and the custom-house quay, if we may dignify the primitive landing-stage in front of the custom-house with that name ; the coolies engaged in loading or emptying these lighters chant a monotonous sort of chorus as they move the heavy bales. Large tusks of ivory are being unshipped from some dhows which have just arrived from Dar-es-salaam, Bagamoyo, Sadaani or some other of the ports on the mainland, and are taken to one side of the custom-house, where they are weighed and marked by the Banyan clerks who manage the business of the place. Within the precincts of the custom-house are sundry sheds and warehouses belonging to various European