Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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Bead (population 50,000), the residence of the
Amir, where equally the population is partly
mixed with Persian. In this town there are
female Circassian slaves, also several white men
as slaves, and but few negroes or Nubians.
other towns of Nedsch, single slaves are to be
found here and there, but none at all among
the Bedouin Arabs, who number 200,000. The
former capital, Deraya, was partially destroyed
by order of Ibrahim Pasha (adopted son of
Mahommed Ali), and now numbers but few
inhabitants.
" In Asia, where I travelled by bye-roads and
saw no actual towns, the Arabians carry on
farming and cattle-breeding, employing their
own people ; and they do not use any strangers.
They have camels, goats, and sheep, also cows
—the latter of a very small breed. It is a
singular fact that here, as in Tayf , I remarked
it was looked upon as a sin to sell cow's milk,
so that strangers are supplied with it gratis, but
most liberally.
" BemarJc No. 2.—To abolish the slave-trade
entirely in Abyssinia will be a great undertaking.
The opinion of the Abyssinian Regent
is hable to change, and all kind of smuggling is
facihtated by the fact of there being so many
different
tribes on the frontier who live in comparatively
independent wildness, and by there
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