The Naval Division Commander of Bourbon and…
December 1845 CE
Not having achieved anything, Romain-Desfossés charged Charles Guillain (who then started to explore the eastern coast of Africa) to remind the Sultan of his commitment to deliver the murderer to the French authorities.
The Sultan sent an army of three hundred to four hundred musketeers after Mazungera, but they discovered that he had fled.
Hembé led his father's tribe into a few days of skirmishes against the Zanzibaris.
The man who had beaten the drum during Maizan's killing was taken into custody and put in chains at Zanzibar, where he eventually died.
Hembé will later tell John Hanning Speke that he had killed Maizan on his father's orders.
Because Mazungera holds a title conferred by the Sultan, Speke, who is favorably disposed toward Africans, will blame Maizan's death on the urging of Arabs who did not want Europeans interfering with the ivory trade.
Speke will assume that Hembé would have been killed if he had disobeyed.
Famed explorer Richard Francis Burton will later comment that the Wazaramo had greatly declined in power and importance since Maizan's death, and that "few murders have been more pregnant in their consequences than that of M. Maizan in East Africa."
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