Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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Al-PENDIX. 353
924. " You remained there for four years ? "
" lu tliat part very nearly three years."
925. " What distance were you from Zanzibar?"—
"A very considerable distance to the
southward of it."
926. " Towards Nyassa ?"— " To the south of
Lake Nyassa, within 100 miles of Lake Nyassa, in
the part of
the country from which slaves were
principally collected to be sent down to the
coast, and also down the river Zambezi into
the Portuguese dominions."
927. " Were there very large exports of slaves
from that part of the country ?" — " At that time
the exports were very large, perhaps they had
never been so large before in that part of Africa.
The whole of the country to the north of the
Zambezi was for the first time invaded by slavetraders,
who took advantage of Dr. Livingstone's
pre\dous explorations, using his good
name and fair fame amongst the natives, and
saying that they were the same sort of white
people that they had previously seen; and in
that way the natives allowed them to come into
their country.
Before that time no Portuguese
had ever been into that part of the country. I
may state that the slave-trade that was opened
out there was of two descriptions. In the first
place, the
Kaffir tribes to the south of the river
Zambezi had been fiu-htino- for a «:reat number