Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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be a danger of slaves being taken overland, even
from Lake Nyassa to that port ?" — " That could
be checked, because there is such a marked
difference in the tribes; I would severely
punish any man who should export natives
those southern tribes; you could easily stop
that."
626. Ml'. Crum-Eiving.'] " You mentioned that
at one time a considerable trade in slaves was
carried on with the French Islands; is that
entirely given up now ?" — " We have no recent
information, I believe, about that. Two or
three years ago Lord Campbell carried a motion
in the House of Lords for an Address to Her
Majesty, to appoint a Consul at Mozambique.
I think it is a most unfortunate circumstance
that that has never been acted on. Not only
have we no Consul at Mozambique, but the
consulate at the Comoro Islands has been
abolished, so that from Zanzibar to our ovnx
territories in Port Natal, there is nobody to
watch British interests, or to interfere with the
slave-trade. In consequence of the ports in
Madagascar having been thrown open to foreign
trade since the death of the old queen, there is
such an immensely increasing trade in the
products of Madagascar, that they have begun
to import slaves into Madagascar very largely,
in order to cultivate their rich land; and,
of