A Three Years' Cruize in the Mozamique Channel,

£1,250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

In addition to the wealth of information on the slave trade and the local peoples, the narrative provides interesting descriptions of Zanzibar, including a reception and subsequently a dinner with the Imaum of Muscat. Barnard also claimed to have “had the honour of hoisting the English flag for the first time” (p77) in Zanzibar during the same visit.

• Year: 1848

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