Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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one who had slept in the boat, the vegetation is
so dense and rank."
591. " Do the natives suffer from the
climate
— ? " " Not in the same degree, the
Arabs do, very much ; I think very few Arabs
of pure race reach manhood."
619. "Whose subjects are the northern Arabs,
who chiefly carry on this
trade ? " —•" They are
chiefly the piratical tribes; the tribes who in
former years gave us a great deal of trouble."
620. "Are they subject to any power?"
" That is the difficulty in dealing with the slavetrade
; a great many of them are nominally under
the jurisdiction of the Imaum of Muscat, but in
reality the Imaum of Muscat has no power at all
over them; he can do nothing efi'ective."
621. " To what ports do those northern Arabs
cliiefly take the slaves ? "— " A great many now
go to Macullah and Ras-al-Had, and other ports
in Arabia, and a great many go to ports in
Persia."
622. "You tliink that the chiefs having control
over those ports, would not have sufficient
power to stop the import of slaves, if they wished
it ? "— " In dealing with them I should send an
English man-of-war round with proclamations in
Arabic, which I would have read out by the
sheikhs and elders of the tribes, giving them
distinct notice that after a certain date the