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Ok you guys, you made me go searching for my great grandmothers 3 volume set of "cyclopaedias". I don't trust modern references for anything historical anymore for fear that the revisionist have corrupted the facts thoroughly.

Here's what it says:

A british protectorate in africa, lying east of german east africa. It includes the islands of zanzibar and pemba, off the eastern shore, and a small strip of the mainland. The island of zanzibar has an area of 625 square miles and a population of 150,000. It contains the city of zanzibar, wich is the cheif town and seat of local government and has an estimated population of 100,000, thus being the largetst city on the eastern coast of africa., Pemba has an area of 360 square miles and a population of 50,000. Both these islands have fertile soil and good harbors. They produce cloves, hides, ivory, copra, shells, cotton, indigo, rice, fruits, and vegetibles. Domestic animals such as horses and cattle,are reared successfully. The coast region claimed by great britain is included in the region to which claim is made by germany, which country exercizes influence on the islands and controls the larger part of the export and import trade,. Natives known as swahillis form the laboring class. They are peaceable, loya to the government, and apt in learning civilized arts. Other inhabitants embrace arabs germans, english, portuguese, french, hindus and italians. Most of the people are mohammedans, but many christian missions are maintained. Slavery in a modified form still exists, though the laboring classes have their own housed and cannot be separated from their wives and families. The entire population is estimated at 725,000

I don't have a scanner so forgive typos please, I typed really fast and didn't proofread.