Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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perfectly lawless ; they have no master at all
the greater part of the slaves that go to Zanzibar
now are brought from the vicinity of that lake,
the great proportion of them from the west side
of the lake, simply because the rest of the country
is depopulated."
953. "Of course the farther the slave-dealers
have to go inland for the slaves, the greater the
waste of life ?"— " The cheaper they are to buy,
and the greater the loss of life there is in bringing
them down to the coast."
954. " You do not know anything as to what is
going on now, I presume, except from the letters
of Dr. Livingstone ?"— " I am in constant correspondence
with Dr. Ku'k ;
and I may state that
Mr. Young, who went up to search for Dr.
Livingstone in 1867, went through the greater
part of the country I am speaking of, as far
the middle of Lake Nyassa, and according to his
account the same state of things was going on
at that time. I have since heard from more
recent accounts that it is still going on, and, in
fact, it must go on as long as slaves are exported
from the east coast."
955. Sir J. Hay.'] " Are those slave-dealers of
whom you are speaking Portuguese subjects, or
Arabs?"— "Most of them are Portuguese subjects
;
some of them are Arabs."
956. " Have the Portuguese Government no
as