Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER X.
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Number of Captures in 1868—Departure from Bombay—Cruise
on Arabian Coast— Chase of Dhows
A Slave Dhow slips away—Maculla—Visit to the
Sheik—Capture of two Dhows— Stories of Slaves
on Board—Aden—Condemnation of Dhows—Dcj)arture
for Seychelles—Capture of Slaver Avitli
fifty-two Slaves—Arrival at Seychelles—Visit to
old Acquaintance . . . . . . .197
CHAPTER XI.
Zanzibar—French Charlie's Shop, his Promptness
Trip to Darra Salaam—Our Party—The Town—
Shooting Hippopotami—Mafamale Strangers
Fish Hawks—Mayotta—Marguerite . . . 207
PORTUGUESE POSSESSIONS.
CHAPTER XII.
Portuguese Possessions, their Claims—Population of
Mozambique—Full of Slaves—Ibo—Cape Delgado
—Quillimane—No other Portuguese Settlements
The Arabs in real Possession—Conducia—The
Portuguese Slave-trade—Free Negroes—A Portuguese
Schooner with Slaves in her—Defeat of
Portuguese Forces—Their Power confined to one
Island 219
CHAPTER XIII.
Condition of Slaves in Portuguese Territory— Cruelty
—A Slave flogged to Death— Slaves escape to
"Daphne"— Slaves or " Free Negroes " —Refusal to
give them up—Correspondence with the Governor
The " Star " in sight—My Promotion—Fernando
Veloso Bay—An Interview with the Natives
Their Curiosity — A Mystery — The Rivers of
Africa 235