Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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to Baker's turning-point; Tanganyika, Uzige,
Chowambe (Baker's) are one water, and the
head of it is 300 miles south of this. The
western and central lines of drainage converge
into an unvisited lake, west or south-west of
this.
The outflow of this, whether to Congo or
Nile, I have to ascertain.
("Signedj
" I have, &c.
" Davtd Livingstone."
The Slave-Teade on the East Coast op Africa.
The Times of India gives
a stirring account
of the capture of a slave dhow, near Ras-el-Had,
in the Gulf of Persia, by the boats of her Majesty's
ship "Vulture."
Wlien the capture was
completed, it was found that the crew and
passengers, including the slave-merchants, comprised
36 Arabs, all heavily armed:— "The
number of
slaves it was impossible at the time
to estimate. So crowded on deck, and in the
hold below was the dhow, that it
seemed, but
for the aspect of misery, a very nest of ants.
The hold, from which an intolerable stench
proceeded, was several inches deep in the foulest
bilge-water and refuse. Down below, there
were numbers of children and wretched beinofs
in the most loathsome stages of small-pox and
scrofula of every description. A more disgusting
and degrading spectacle of humanity could
hardly be seen, whilst the foulness of the dhow.