Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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have very good information; I do not think
that they knew what I
intended to do, but it is
quite possible that they did."
701. Chairman.] " Do you think that by
having more Consular Agents along the
coast,
you would have the means of deriving better
information upon the subject of the slave-trade?"
— " I think the appointment of Vice-Consuls
along the coast, would be a most valuable
thing, not only as regards giving us information,
but as regards pushing our political influence."
704. " Was there anything in your instructions
that in any way impeded your success
any limitation of your power ? "— " There was
nothing whatever in my instructions to limit
my action till the issue, by the Admiralty, of
a circular dated 6th November, 1869, which
appears at page 94 of Class B, East Coast
of Afinca
Correspondence from 1st January to
31st December, 1869. That circular made an
unpleasant impression upon all the officers
commanding the ships under my orders. Its
manner was accusatory as to the past and
threatening as to the future; its matter was,
principally the forbidding the capture of dhows
for having domestic slaves aboard."
705. " Do you think there were many slaves
carried in that way in those dhows which were