Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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wah are secret protectors of the slave-trade in
Harkiko, and tliey are also accessories, who
derive advantage from this traffic.
"Wora, a not unimportant place between
Hamasjcn and the highland of Bogos, is one of
the principal scenes of the slave-trade. It has
a position well hidden, on the confines of a
wooded desert, and is
some distance from the
Christianized village of Hamasjen, and inhabited
only by Mohammedans who carry on farming
and cattle-breeding operations, but trade especially
in slaves, has for these purposes allies
among the Mohammedans of the inner Christian
higlilands of Tigre. In Adoa and its neighbourhood,
the places chiefly to be counted on
are,—the village of Mai Sigamo, in the district
of Addi Abum (Memsach), and farther on;
whole district
the
of Mosba (with the sovereignty
of which the Naib of Harkiko is temporarily
and most curiously
invested, a most impolitic
proceeding, as the Naib (1845) is actually the
servant of Turkey).
In the year 1836, the Naib,
in consideration of a monthly payment of 1500
thalers (225/.), was the Protector of Turkish
interests in Massowah, and the Turkish Governor
paid an official visit to the Naib, who, till then,
had been officially in the service of Abyssinia
(Agame-Tigre).
" Members of the confederation of the towns of
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