Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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boys in her that had been kidnapped at Pemba
on the day of saihng ;
they were chased on the
beach by the negoda and some of his crew, and
being forced into the boat, were taken off to the
dhow, and tliis story the negoda did not deny.
Now, we maintain that even if such a vessel had
been captured ivithin the Sultan's waters, he
himself would have been compelled by the treaty
to recognize her condemnation, as he has in
similar instances on many occasions, for she had
no licence ;
but as she was captured beyond the
limit of any treaty, by no stretch of interpretation
of the instructions or orders, however much
desired, could these two kidnapped children (two
out of the many thousands who are thus forcibly
carried to the northern markets) be brought
under the nomenclature of "domestic slaves."
"We therefore detained this vessel, and she,
and several others (some of them full, and some
with only a few slaves in them), were subsequently
condemned at
Zanzibar, and the condemnation
approved by the Sultan. Another
case of this system of kidnapping, was that of a
woman and two boys who were stolen by the