Zastzibah. — The Times supplies the following: — The territories of the Sultan of Zanzibar extend for 1100 miles along the east coast of Africa, and under the rule of the present Sultan a very extensive trade is carried on with the United States, France, Hamburg, and Great Britain. The revenues of the Sultan have more than doubled within the last four or five years, and the city of Zanzibar now contains a population of 60,000 inhabitants. It is the chief mart in the world for ivory, cloves, gum, copal, ebony, and sandal-wood, and has also a large trade in oil seeds, rice, cowries, hides, spices, &c.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 75, 1 April 1869, Page 2
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