Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

196 THE CEUISE OF THE "DAPHNE."
On arriving at Bombay, we heard that the
" Star" had captured many more slavers, and
taken about three hundred hberated Africans
to Aden, but some doubts were raised in the
Indian Court there, as to whether they were
domestic slaves, and whether it was not wronging
the poor Arabs, to prevent their taking
them to the northern markets, and, further, there
appeared to be an inclination to give these
poor Arabs the benefit of such doubts, and allow
them to retain their slaves. I should prefer
giving the benefit of any doubt to the slaves,
and if either of them are to be abandoned to
slavery, why not let the negroes take the Arab
back to his country and sell him, as he might
in some parts of it possibly, such as the interior
of the Galla and Somauli country ?