Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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means of restraining them?"— "I speak of things
as they were ; I can only say that the Portuguese
who were sent out there, were sent out to
shift for themselves ;
the Home Government did
not wish to hear anything more of them, and
the slave-trade was never interfered with in any
way except on paper."
957. Mr. J. Talbot.] " Did you accompany
Dr. Livingstone on any part of his travels ?"
" Not as one of his expedition ; I went out with
Bishop Mackenzie, but I was with Dr. Livingstone,
off and on, for nearly four years;
I joined
him because we wished to save the lives of a
great many of those poor men and children
who had been liberated by us, and the Doctor
and myself were working together for that
purpose for some time ; eventually he sent me
down to the Cape with them, and a great many
of them are there at the present time."
958. Chairman.'] " Have you any suggestion to
offer to the Committee with the view of suppressing
the slave-trade on the East Coast of Africa ?"
— " Having listened with much interest to the
evidence which has been given here, I should
like to suggest that which seems to me to be
one very good plan, and which I think might
be adopted. The suggestion has been made
that vice-consuls should be placed at different
parts of the coast to watch the slave-trade, and