Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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960. " Have you any other suggestion to make
witli a view to putting a stop to this slavetrade
?'*— " I will simply add this : I have seen
a good deal of the Arabs in the Comoro Islands,
and other places,
and I should certainly advise
that we should deal with them with a
strong
hand in preference to any dallying with them ; I
would put the utmost pressure upon the Sultan
of Zanzibar at once; I should show him that
though we might be taking away from him
shillings by stopping his slave-trade, yet that
the vast increase in the legitimate trade that
there must be in the course of a few years
would be putting back pounds into his pocket.
He is now a beggar set upon horseback ; he is
a man of enormous income; and from what
General Higby has said, he is a man with whom
I think strong action would have more effect
than any paper warfare in the way of treaties,
and so forth."
961. "You have probably seen a great deal
to enable you to form an opinion as to what
would be the increase of commercial intercourse
if the slave-trade were abohshed?"— "I know
most of the merchants connected with the trade
on the east coast, and I get letters constantly
from Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar; I also know Dr.
Steere, who has resided there some time, and
Mr. Alino;ton who was there: I knew Mr.