Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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home to the coast, (2) a short sea voyage to the
island of Zanzibar, where is the open slavemarket,
and (3) the final sea passage from
Zanzibar to Arabia, Persia, or Madagascar.
*' From the evidence laid before the Committee
it appears that the large majority of the slaves
are now brought from the western side of the
Lake Nyassa (a distance of nearly 500 miles
from the coast) to Kilwa, which is the principal
port of shipment for Zanzibar, and is
near the southern limit of the Zanzibar dominions.
" Your Committee had before them extracts
from despatches of Dr. Livingstone, addressed
to the Earl of Clarendon, when her Majesty's
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Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and his
testimony as to the methods resorted to by the
slave hunters ; and the cruelties and horrors of
the trade is fully supported by the evidence of
witnesses who had travelled in the interior.
This evidence is well summed up in the Eeport
of the Committee on the East African Slave
Trade, addressed to the Earl of Clarendon, a
quotation from which is as follows :
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The persons by whom this traffic is carried
on are for the most part Arabs, subjects of the
Sultan of Zanzibar. These slave dealers start
for the interior, well armed, and provided with
articles for the barter of slaves, such as^ beads