Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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course, viz. to stop it with a liigli liand at once,
and say we will not have this trade go on, it
might for the sake of the Arabs in Zanzibar be
permitted for a short time between Mirama and
the island or coast opposite Zanzibar; there is
not the
same atrocity in that traffic, because it
is not carried
on on the organized system that
the other trade is ;
probably from what is called
Mirama, 4000 slaves are annually brought to
the island of Zanzibar ; that would be sufficient
to keep up the supply in Zanzibar and Pemba
they are men and children who have been kidnapped.
The slavers do not burn towns and
villages, and murder the grown-up people to get
those slaves."
613. Sir J. Hay.'] "— " Are they exported from
Darra Salaam ? " Mirama is the coast district
opposite the island of Zanzibar ; Darra Salaam
is quite a recent creation of the late Sultan of
Zanzibar, and it is now going to ruin again."
614. Lord F. Cavendish.'] " When you speak of
stopping the slave-trade with a high hand, do
you mean by a squadron, or by any interference
on land ?" — "By a squadron ;
I do not think the
squadron need be very strong ;
but it would be
ineffective without an experienced naval officer,
an officer whose heart would be in the work."
615. " If the trade were allowed from one port
ojily to the island of Zanzib;ar, would not there