RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Notice of Zanzibar by Captain Moresby]. CUL-DAR39.140. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2020. RN2

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He found that the island marked as Tree Island (in the plains of Zanzibar) does not now exist, the sea having undermined the coral rock which formed it, and finally reduced it to sand, where at low water it forms a bank called Harp Shell Bank! by Captain Moresby from the numerous and beautiful shells found on the reefs surrounding it.

Notice of Zanzibar by Captain Moresby

HMS Andromache

1822

Tree Island so named by Capt Bissell –

HMS Leopold

1799

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Darwin

mem: subsidence, overwhelming by water of the Cargados, at the 1812. — Mem Diego Garcia—

NB at C. de Verds In former Geological periods no Coral

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