Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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port is greatly increased by the known fact
that the East India Government do not encourage
their agent in his efforts for the
destruction of the inhuman traffic, which of
course hampers him, if it does not damp his
zeal. I visited the slave-market here yesterday,
and a more painful and disgusting sight I
never saw. Hundreds of poor negi^oes of both
sexes, ranged about in all sorts of conditions,
some living skeletons, others fat and welldressed,
pulled about with a crook stick and
examined just like sheep or other animals in a
market. I will take another opportunity to
give further information, but I would not delay
the request for the stationary depot and guard-
Rev. Horace Wallee, called in;
and examined.
921. Ghairman.l " I ?'"— believe you are now a
clergyman in England " I am."
922. "Have you been on the East Coast of
Africa
— ?" " I joined the Universities' Mission to
Central Africa at the end of the year 1860, and
I was there till the year 1864, when I returned
to this country and took Holy Orders."
923. " In what part of Africa were you ?"
" On the river Zambezi and in the neighbour-,
hood of Lake Shirwa."