Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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THE
CHAPTER V.
— " Pantaloon " Aden — — Seychelles Coco-de-Mer
CRUISE OF THE -PANTALOON.
Passage to Aden—Cairo— Suez Hotel—Passengers—The
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Latham Island—Zanzibar, Agreeable Society there
Limits of Legal Slave-trade— Slave-trade is Piracy
Miserable Condition of the Slaves— Illegal Extension
of Slave-trade—Jumah's Information - Dhow passes
full of Slaves—Her Crew laugh at us.
TjlIFTEEX years later, namely, on tlie lltli
^ of May, 1866, I left Southampton in tlie
Peninsular and Oriental mail-steamer " Syria,"
to supersede Captain Purvis in command of
H.M. Sloop "Pantaloon," eleven guns, then
on the East Indian Station. This was not the