Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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the country. The Naib, however, who is in a
measure dependent on these Governors, but
who deceives them, is an hereditary appointment,
going from father to son, and from family
connexion he must be well aware of the trade
of the Dannakils and other tribes on the coast.
"Among the Dannakils I found Abyssinian
children as slaves, who had openly been brought
there by theft, and about whom T gained some
information in Addigrat (Agame) through a
convicted thief, whose hands had been cut off
by order of Dedsch-Kassai, son of Sohagadis
(Feuer Kassai is dead ; not, however, the present
Regent of Tigre of the same name).
" Slaves are secretly brought to Harkiko (the
residence of the Naib on the mainland) from
Halai and the neighbourhood; apparently
owing to the prohibition they are not brought
to Massowah, but secretly from there to the
district
of Habab, from whence they are taken
from one to three at a time, unnoticed, to
Hadaida, Lidd, or Gedda, by fishermen fi^om
the sea-coast of Arabia. Fishing is carried on
by the Arabians more on the
African than on
the Arabian coast, on account of the coral reefs,
as it is amongst those that the fish are mostly
to be found. The fish are salted and dried on
the spot, and are then sold in the seaport towns
of Arabia. The Naib and Governor of Masso-