Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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pated, that amongst the recent arrivals most of
them gave the names of their tribe as Manganga.
I could not at that time exactly fix the position
of their country; however, shortly afterwards
I saw a letter of Dr. Livingstone in the paper,
saying that he had recently travelled through
the Manganga country, where the whole population
was engaged in the cultivation and working
up of cotton ; and he said that he had never
seen such a wonderful cotton country in his life,
or such a fertile country. I think, a year or
two afterwards, he went through the same
country, and found it entirely depopulated, all
the huts being full of dead bodies.
The children
had been carried away, and most of
the adults
slain.
That is one of the worst features of the
slave-trade in that country. When the slavetraders
go into a district, they kill all the men
and women, and burn the villages, and carry off
the childi'en. The reason they give for taking
the children only is, that the children are driven
more easily, like flocks of sheep, or they are tied
with ropes and chains ;
by desertion on the way."
the men they lose more
612. " My question was whether you would
prohibit the present trade which we allow between
the mainland and Zanzibar for
the purposes
of Zanzibar itself?"— " Unless the Government
choose to do what I think is the proper