Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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value that tliis lad would be to liim, having
been taught agriculture and carpentry at Nassick,
proposed that he should stay with him, but the
lad's answer was, 'No,' he preferred staying
with his master. Dr. Livingstone."
1339. " Is there anything else which you wish
to state to the Committee?"— " I should like to
say that we have given this subject very careful
consideration, and we believe that the recommendations
contained in the Report of the
Committee which sat at the Foreign Office are
very valuable, but there is one particular in
which we dissent from them, and that is, the
recommendation contained in paragraph 64.
We dissent entirely from the proposal that those
children should be liberated at the island of
Zanzibar, and there handed over to
any master
from whom they might take wages; it is a
proposal which we think is entirely opposed to
the whole policy that our Government have
hitherto adopted in dealing with the slavetrade."
1340. " It was your Society principally which
drew the attention of the Government to this
matter, was it not?"— " We have pressed this
matter upon the Government at various times.
Two years ago we went on a deputation to the
India Office, which resulted in the
of the Foreign Office Committee."
appointment