Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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CHAPTER XVII.
A Bulwark on the Coast necessary — British Stations
Abolition of existing Treaties—Basis of future Treaty
—Future Treatment of liberated Africans—Darra Salaam
— Indian Garrison — Road to Interior — Intrenched
Stations—Instruction, &c., of Negroes—Cost
of undertaking a Company—Practicability of Scheme.
TN reply to the question put by the Select
Committee as to the practicability of sending
these negroes back to their own country,
one witness declared that it was impossible, but
I differ entirely with him on that head—it is
by no means impossible ; and every slave so
liberated and returned to his own country by us
would strike a " heavier blow " to the slave-trade
than ever yet has been dealt against it.
I propose,
presently, to show how this may be done.
The embankments of the great African reservoir
of humanity have been broken down by
the slave- dealers ;
it is of no use trying to catch
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