'At length, on January 16th, after long and wistful gazing, as the mist rose, at the three conical heads, which the Portugese call 'Corôa de Mombaça', and when almost despairing of reaching them, the wind suddenly became favourable, and we were driven round Ra'as Betani into the land-locked harbour, right joyful to cast anchor opposite English Point, and to pass the quiet night of which we had disappointed our crew at Pemba Island...The battery or citadel, built by the Portugese in 1594, and repaired in 1635, has been so much altered that it is now an Arabo-Mswahili construction...My sketch of the north-eastern face, taken from the Mhoma-ni Shamba, on the opposite side of the creek, shows a picturesque yellow pile, with tall, long, and buttressed curtains, which appear slightly salient, enclosing towers studded with perpendicular loopholes; three tiers of fire opposite the entrance to the northern harbour; a place d'armes; a high donjon with a giant flag-staff, conspicuous for 5 or 6 miles from the south, and sundry garnishings of little domes and luxuriant trees...' (Zanzibar, II, pp. 20-43)