Some coins were found in digging here which have Cufic inscriptions, and are about 900 years old.

The island is low; the highest parts may not be more than 150 feet above the sea; it is of a coral formation, with sandstone conglomerate.

Most of the plants are African, but clove-trees, mangoes, and cocoa-nut groves give a luxuriant South Sea Island look to the whole scenery.
We visited an old man to-day, the richest in Zanzibar, who is to give me letters to his friends at Tanganyika, and I am trying to get a depot of goods for provisions formed there, so that when I reach it I may not be destitute.
_18th March, 1866._--I have arranged with Koorje, a Banian, who farms the custom-house revenue here, to send a supply of beads, cloth, flour, tea, coffee, and sugar, to Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika.

The Arab there, with whom one of Koorje's people will remain in charge of the goods, is called Thani bin Suelim.
Yesterday we went to take leave of the Sultan, and to thank him for all his kindness to me and my men, which has indeed been very great.
He offered me men to go with me, and another letter if I wished it.

He looks very ill.
I have received very great kindness during my stay from Dr.and Mrs.
Seward.