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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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APPENDIX.<br />

EXTRACTS FROM EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE<br />

THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE<br />

HOUSE OF COMMONS.<br />

E. CHURCHILL, C.B., called<br />

M exam<strong>in</strong>ed.<br />

<strong>in</strong> ; and<br />

287. " I will ask you whether you are acqua<strong>in</strong>ted<br />

with the statements of Dr. Liv<strong>in</strong>gstone<br />

with regard to the slave-trade ? "— " Yes ; I<br />

have read his book, and I do not th<strong>in</strong>k them<br />

exaggerated at all from what I have heard<br />

fi'om Dr. Kirk, who accompanied Dr. Liv<strong>in</strong>gstone.<br />

In conversations with the former, I<br />

have gleaned that the road between Nyassa<br />

and the coast is strewn with the bones of slaves<br />

that have been killed or abandoned on the road,<br />

and the villages which, on their<br />

first visit were<br />

flourish<strong>in</strong>g, were on their second visit quite<br />

abandoned and destroyed; <strong>in</strong> fact, the whole<br />

place had been reduced to a state of desolation."<br />

288. " You would not th<strong>in</strong>k the statement ex-<br />

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