| Title: | Zanzibar |
| Original Title: | Zanguebar, le |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 17 (1765), p. 691 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Kathryn Heintzman [Harvard University] |
| Subject terms: |
Modern geography
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Zanzibar." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Kathryn Heintzman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.774>. Trans. of "Zanguebar, le," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 17. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Zanzibar." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Kathryn Heintzman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.774 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Zanguebar, le," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 17:691 (Paris, 1765). |
Zanzibar, [1] country in Africa in the Kaffraria, along the Indian sea. We assert that it is the country that Ptolemy named Agisimba. It extends from the river of Jubo just to the kingdom of Moruca, and comprises several kingdoms, principle among them are Mozambique, Mongale, Quiloa [2], Monbaze [3], & Melinde. See the map of Mr. Damville. [4] It is a low country filled with lakes, marshes, and rivers. They grow in some places a little wheat, millet, oranges, and lemons, etc. The hens that we nourish there are good, but their flesh is black. The inhabitants are Negroes, [5] with short and frizzy hair [6]; they are rich in gold mines and in ivory. They are all idolaters or Mohammedans. Their principal food is the flesh of wild beasts and the milk of their herds.
Notes
1. Also commonly retained as Zanguebar in English at the time.
2. Also commonly spelled as Kilwa.
3. Also sometimes Monbaza in English.
4. Misspelling preserved, almost certainly a reference to Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (16971-1782).
5. I have elected to translate negre consistent with Pamela Cheek’s Encyclopédie translation here.
6. The use of poil in French, instead of cheveux, has the connotation of being from an animal.