Tarya Topan, the millionaire.

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Tarya Topan, the millionaire. It was one of the richest merchants in the city of Zanzibar, mainly selling cloth. Born in Indostan. Muslim fervent but with liberal ideas. Drawing by Etienne Ronjat (1822-1912). Engraving by Charles Barbant (1844-1922). Africa inexplorada, el Continente Misterioso by Henry Morton Stanley, c. 1887.

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