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Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 24 — Chapter IV · A STROLL THROUGH ZANZIBAR CITY.

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The Arabs here call the shark ‘jarjúr,’ the Wasawahíli p’hápá. I do not know why Captain Guillain (ii. 391) says, ‘le requin, nommé par les Arabs lebah—‘Lebah is the Somali name for a lion.

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