Diplomacy in Zanzibar.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 292, 17 December 1901, Page 4

Diplomacy in Zanzibar.

1 IO'.V A PLUMP > K<l j ’i-A'S I psi ;t .. t ! '!■: AMKi;;!' g un, \ shot. 'V ANIONS TON Nov. - : '!h r Amencau ( or. sidyr ninrr m Zing.. I /.ih,u' is vacant. /. 11 ’a■ rit.;i:i diplomat v ' (100.-: !!,-)! semi; i" !''..(iri h in Zanzibar. 1 0 k>>[)l aliir.: .-* oi malaria ;ui(! inns- \ i;oi los (oil li 11 .ifi 1 ' Hi it v VO: ;tpjiointcil 0 . r! 1 . rt ,0 I,: !: ol Ihe Jl.OiirO: !!i- 1 ! Wt-S is Ol' the Liliiol S: ale s ai- that I place. ; Air Riley was quite a power m V.n- ; aiiiia pol'i! ics, and when he came to : Washington for Ins reward they gave ; him Zanzibar, and to Zanzibar he : ' went. ’ There are HOti.OOO negroes in Zanzi- ! ! bar, while llie lui est census shows that I there are about fifty Knglis'iineti, line j > number of Hermans. and live Anret'i- ; cans sifted through Hie colored popula- j lion ; Riley ae: idea io live in splendid isoi l:it ion, so be procured a house close ; to the sea, where he could see the big waves roll in, and lie raised the American flag over the thatched roof, and announced that he was there to defend , his governiueu!, commercially, socially and diplomatically against allcomers, lie ma.de voluminous reports about the increases in American trade, but not ' one breath about the humiliations he ; .suffered while upholding Hie (lag. ‘ i The spot on widen Kilcy had chosen to locate the Consulate wa.s in the neighborhood of the favorite bathing place of the iiilluenliai citizens of the sultanate. The American Consul's sics! ns were maned by visions of ebony i lined aristocrats iripping past his win- i i (lows on their wav H> the sea for an [ afternoon dip. Their bathing cos- ; tunics were so scanty as not to be ; worth met;t toning. : ' Riley lodged piot.esis at bembijuar-i , tors, and fumed and stormed, but the 1 processions continued. One well-fed j * regress was more repugnant (o law ! than all Ihe rest. She '■'> find : ] a great- deal of amuseniCut in his oh- j to ncai . day Rjlev loaded his j shot -gun and wailed for Hie sea to i tumble the .-.egress into a good target. 1 lie peppered her full of bird shot. Relations with the American Cou--1 sulate were imincdintely broken by me Sultan, for it turned out that the par- ; 1 t ic.ularly oiiiecl iouahle black w-unan • Was no less pel’s, via ge than the Sul- ! tana. Riley was recalled and Ids t!o----3 vemment mad.'? abject apologies .o Ine ; duskv potentate. Nevertheless, since , j Hie giint-gmi incident, the .'u.ieri.-ui I Consui iia’s never been webs.me i into ; j the best, .sociefy of Hie island, lie is •. even an obier! oi su.-übrjon and d- . trust, and the Oriental poll tenets '.vilit which he is tolerated is hard Io ben.t. Tie* state ['‘parimen! ollieuus. -Lter j ' Kites’:, adventure, look Zanzibar '-un . 1 the Virginia political plum It.'fc ami ! put it- on tint l of Indiana. !.. was ; thought bent to :.n\e it to some a'.e whose citizens did not en'ertain stub > ; strong sentiments on thr. color (jets- ; I ii..a

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