Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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make up our own minds with regard to what is
to be done, and whether we really are in
earnest as we were twenty-five or thirty years
ago."
523. *' Is the east coast of Africa an unhealthy
coast?"— " The lower parts, at the mouths of the
rivers, are, I believe, very unhealthy, but directly
you get through Deltas, and the low country on
the coast, you get to a country which has been
described to me as remarkably healthy;
up a kind of steppe into
find that is healthy."
you rise
a table-land, and you
Admikal Sir L. Heath called in; and examined.
G84. " Was much trade carried on which you
were not able to prevent ? "— " The ofiicial custom-house
returns at Zanzibar state, that on the
average about 20,000 slaves a year are imported
into Zanzibar; besides that, there must be a large
number of slaves exported fi^om the mainland
which do not pass through the custom-house at
Zanzibar ; Zanzibar cannot want anything like
that number, and therefore
you must presume
that the surplus is carried away for export to
foreign countries."
685. "What number in the year did you
succeed in capturing ? "— " For the year ending