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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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PORTUGUESE POSSESSIONS. 285<br />

1st. Tlio total abolition of slavery and tlie<br />

slave-trade.<br />

2nd. <strong>The</strong> acknowledgment of the obligation<br />

not to supply the vacancies occurr<strong>in</strong>g among<br />

the domestic slaves of the country from any<br />

people beyond that country.<br />

3rd. That domestic slavery, of any k<strong>in</strong>d,<br />

should only cont<strong>in</strong>ue to be recognized for a<br />

limited period, say ten years; and<br />

4th. That the trade be declared piracy and<br />

the penalty on conviction, whether <strong>in</strong> the<br />

<strong>in</strong>terior of the country or <strong>in</strong> Africa, death.<br />

Such measures, I have no hesitation <strong>in</strong><br />

declar<strong>in</strong>g, would put an end to slavery <strong>in</strong> five<br />

years, and save thousands of lives.<br />

Suppos<strong>in</strong>g these views to be carried <strong>in</strong>to<br />

effect, the next th<strong>in</strong>g to be considered is how<br />

best to deal with the liberated Africans ; some<br />

place on the ma<strong>in</strong>land of the coast must be<br />

occupied by us, either a portion of that territory<br />

which is now <strong>in</strong>fested by the maraud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

tribes of half-caste Arabs and negroes, or, which<br />

would be far preferable, a station purchased, if<br />

necessary—no matter at what cost—of the

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