Tanzania (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Item
Moobarik Bombay, 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047C/9
Scope and Contents
105 x 47 mm (both sections of stereo print). Beneath the print, the caption continues ' who has accompanied Capt. Speke during 2 expeditions in Central Africa'. A Yao born in about 1820, he was enslaved when a child, sold at Kilwa, taken to India by his master (hence his name Bombay) and released on his death. He was serving in the Sultan of Zanzibar's Baluchi guard garrisoning Chokwe when in February 1856 he was recruited for Burton and Speke's expedition to discover the source of the...
Dates:
1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25
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