GLOSSARY OF HISTORICAL FIGURES

Philip Colomb

Commander, Royal Navy; captain of HMS Dryad

Leopold Heath

Captain, Royal Navy; commodore of the East Indies Station, Bombay

Edward Meara

Commander, Royal Navy; captain of HMS Nymphe

George Sulivan

Commander (later Captain), Royal Navy; captain of HMS Daphne

Minor figures

Henry Churchill

British consul, Zanzibar

Sir Henry Bartle Frere

Diplomat, head of the British mission to Zanzibar 1872

Dr John Kirk

Acting British consul, Zanzibar

David Livingstone

Missionary explorer in East Africa

Conolly Pakenham

British consul, Madagascar

Colonel Lewis Pelly

Former British consul at Zanzibar, diplomat in charge of Persian Gulf matters, based in Persia

Ranavalona II

Queen of Madagascar and eventual Anglican convert

Henry Rothery

Lawyer in the ecclesiastical and Admiralty court in London; legal advisor to the Treasury on slave trade matters

Majid bin Said

Sultan of Zanzibar 1856–1870

Barghash bin Said

Brother of Majid and Sultan of Zanzibar 1870–1888