Word: zanzibar
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...West of Zanzibar. Lon Chancy, as a masked voodoo witch man impressing an African tribe with small-time vaudeville tricks, is no handsomer than usual. Chancy, with paralyzed legs, crawls on his hands or pushes himself in a wheelchair. Never believable, the plot involves a number of scenes in which Chancy, Mary Nolan and Lionel Barrymore act with the naivete, but without the conviction, of a high-school class in the Commencement play...
Stretching back into Africa from Zanzibar on the Indian Ocean are four British areas* which Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog of the Union of South Africa has long urged should achieve unity as the Federation of East Africa...
...fake Sultan of Zanzibar, since become a British painter famed for his mild demeanor, was once accorded thunderous salutes and every other courtesy when he inspected the British fleet...
Many a sailor shanghaied at Aden, has been carried round Cape Guardafui, easternmost point of Africa, and down its coast to Zanzibar, without ever knowing that after passing the Cape he sailed for 1,000 miles past the Italian protectorate of Somaliland...
Historians recalled that Somaliland was the scene of the first important Italian venture at African colonization, and was brought under Italian influence in 1889 by treaties with the Somali sultans and subsequent agreements with Britain, Zanzibar and Abyssinia. Since that time the sultanates of Obbia and Mijertins have been allowed to retain their de facto autonomy, but now Italian troops have "resumed" actual control of this territory. Fascist-censored cables report that, the natives "welcomed the Italians with benevolence and sympathy," and surrendered 2,000 rifles and much ammunition "without pulling a single trigger...