Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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it himself; we should be obliged to help
him."
78. Mr, Crum-Ewmg.] " The northern Arabs
would be too strong for him?"—"Yes; it was
only the other day that the northern Arabs
were found engaged in a plot to kidnap his own
slaves, and take them away to the north."
186. " I wish to read a report from Admiral
Cockburn, which is dated from Zanzibar, the
31st of May, 1871 :
' I take an early opportunity
after my arrival
slave-trade ;
here, to write about the
I am sorry to be obhged to give a
bad report. It is without doubt a fact, that
the trade is as busy and profitable as ever it
was ; in spite of all our exertions, every new
plan adopted by us is quickly met by a cunning
device of the Arabs encouraged by the Sultan,
if not actively, certainly negatively. It is
painful to any naval officer to be obliged to
acknowledge this.
Under existing treaties, and
the recent instructions respecting domestic
slaves, the Sultan having the power to give
passports to any number of vessels laden with
poor living creatures to be transported to different
parts of his dominions, it is rendered
almost impossible for a cruiser to take a dhow
anywhere south of Lamoo, and during the
south-west monsoon it is very difficult to keep
cruisers sufficiently near the coast to intercept