Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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THE CRUISE OF THE "PANTALOON. 113
and who, perhaps, having no such pure intentions
towards the negro as to be any benefit
to them, afterwards might simply carry on a
limited slave-trade under another name, as is
done farther south by the Portuguese and
French, who call them "free negroes" and
"emigrants," respectively, and acting as the
former of these nations has done for centuries
in the Mozambique, not only enslave their
bodies, but place moral chains and fetters for
centuries to come on their whole mental beina-.
"Well was it said of the negroes in the Portuguese
territory, on the East
Coast of Africa,
some few years ago, "Poor degraded beings,
how much might their condition be improved
But here they are ground down to the lowest
state of human degradation, and it
is frightful
to contemplate heings so little raised above the
hrute creation^ in a place luhich has been in
possession of Christians, so called, for hundreds
of years. ^'
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I visited several of these slave dhows in
Zanzibar harbour laden with wretched creatures,
* Lieut. Barnard's Narrative.