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1961 Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Sailors work aboard a dhow in Zanzibar's harbour in this 1961 photograph, a scene typical of the port's long-standing maritime trade, in which locally built sailing vessels carried cargo along the East African coast and across to Arabia.
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