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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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DHOW-CHASING.<br />

INTRODUCTION.<br />

A FTER a few years' lull <strong>in</strong> the anti-slavery<br />

storm, "the old fever," as the Bishop<br />

of W<strong>in</strong>chester calls it, has broken out agfa<strong>in</strong><br />

not that it<br />

had ever entirely subsided, for there<br />

have always been solitary spots where the<br />

English flag has prevailed, and this so-called<br />

fever has existed, just as there are solitary<br />

spots or unfi'equented localities where typhoid<br />

or other zymotic diseases lurk, and which<br />

only become epidemic by some unexpected or<br />

sudden meteorological disturbance or atmospheric<br />

change. <strong>The</strong> immediate cause of the

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