- Figure 7.1. Zanzibar Town, 1846. The map shows a narrow strip of land on the south that was the only connection across a creek that separated the town from the main island on the east. The first half of the nineteenth century was a period of rapid growth for Zanzibar. This map is the earliest detailed record of the town to survive. It shows a central area of stone houses surrounded by mud and thatch houses, which covered most of the peninsula and spread across the creek at Darajani, the narrowest crossing point. Though mud huts might have dominated the edges of the town as shown in this map, they were also located within stone houses all over the town. (Source: Map of Zanzibar, 1846 [Plan de Zanzibar, 1846]. Erhard Schieblé; Kœppelin, printing; Arthus Bertrand, editor. In “Voyage à lacôte orientale d’Afrique,” surveyed and written by Ch. Guillain, folio-atlas, plate 9, 1856–1857.)
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