Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

116 DHOW-CHASING.
nortliward. This is the illegal extension, and
consequent result of a legal slave-trade in the
nineteentli century! But it must not be supposed
that the illegal part of this trade commences
at the northern end of the Zanzibar
dominions ; on the contrary, a vast number of
these dhows obtain their cargoes far south of
the southern limit Quiloa, from Quillimane,
Angoxa, Mozambique, Ibo, the Portuguese possessions
on the coast, calling only at Quiloa to ,
obtain the necessary pass for all of them, by
possibly paying only a tax to the Custom House
there for a few more to be added to their cargo
at that 23lace.
Slave-trade abolished in the Portuguese
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territory ! It was never so extensive as it is
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now, and is aggravated by cruelties that have
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shocked the Arabs on the coast—cruelties which )
they are incapable of practising, and which
cause an Englishman's flesh to creep at their
bare mention, and all this rendered still more
revolting by the falsehood and sarcasm contained
in the name given the poor wretches
that of ^'free negroes /"