The gulf that yawned between such lives was as wide as that which separates the scholar, the artist, or the aristocrat of modern Europe from the pale toiler of a New York sweating-room, or the coal carriers of zanzibar or Aden.
"The Empire of Love"
W. J. Dawson
The floating pumice, which filled the harbour of Batavia with layers so deep that planks resting upon it made a safe bridge over a mile in length, drifted even to zanzibar and Madagascar.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
When the Portuguese had followed the long line of coast from the mouth of the Orange River to that of the Zambesi, and from the mouth of the Zambesi northward to zanzibar, they settled only where they heard that gold and ivory could be obtained.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce