Badik from Java??

[Athanase]

Here is a very modest badik (34cm).
The forged blade(18cm) is very simple.
The handle is in Wood, the scabbard in wood, bone and buffalo blac horn en blond horn (cow?)

I bought this knife because I did not have this shape yet and the dedication written on the scabbard.
It is very hard to read and photograph but it is written:

"poignard des naturels de Zanzibar. ( détroit de la Sonde.)
pris et apporté par moi à mon ami
Marius Boullard. S. pinson."

in english :
"dagger of the natives of Zanzibar. (strait of the Sonde.)
taken and brought by me to my friend
Marius Boullard. S. pinson."

The problem is the indication "Zanzibar"
The mention: Strait of the Sound, is logical, I search on google map a city with a name resembling "Zanzibar" to explain the confusion, but I did not find.
Unfortunately the date is not written. But the style of writing reminds one of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
I found on the internet a Marius Boullard whose dates of life could correspond.


Marius Boullard, French conpositor, 1842-1891

But it is impossible to find the trace of a S. Pinson who traveled to Indonesia in the 19th century.