Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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thought fit to do so, might make use of the
contents of it for the suppression of the slavetrade.
" As the Memorandum contains several remarks
which show themselves to be the result of many
years of observation, and as especially the
minute description of the roads used by the
slave-trade might afford ways and means for an
effectual suppression of this traffic in human
beings, I am instructed by my august Sovereign
to forward, according to the wish of Dr. Wilhelm
Schimpfer, a copy of the said Memorandum
for her Britannic Majesty's Grovernment.
" I have the honour therefore to forward to you
the accompanying copy, certified in the Registry
of the Department of the private correspondence
of the Grand Duke, of the Memorandum by Dr.
W. Schimpfer, together with two plans, with
the request that you will kindly submit the
same, with the proper explanations to her
Majesty's Foreign Office ;
and I take the liberty
of adding that the writer of the Memorandum
hoped by the communication of the results of
his many years of observation of the traffic in
human beings in Abyssinia, that is to say, of
the slave-markets, the roads taken by the
slave
caravans, and the shipping and landing places on
the coast of the Red Sea, to place her Britannic
Majesty's Vice-Consul in Massowah in a position