Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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;
any degree the total number of the sufferers
from this iniquitous traffic.
Such is the fearful
loss of life resulting from this traffic, such the
miseries which attend it, that, according to Dr.
Livingstone and others, not one in five, in some
cases
not one in ten, of the victims of the slave
hunters ever reach the coast alive.
" The slaves, when liberated from the dhows,
have been sent of late years to Aden and Bombay,
being
maintained there at a heav^^ cost to
the Imperial Exchequer. In time past some
have been landed at the Seychelles, a dependency
of the Mauritius. The climate in these
islands is said to suit them exactly, and the
inhabitants to be anxious for emancipated slave
labour.
Every variety of tropical })roduct grows
there in the greatest abundance.
" Measures have at various times been adopted
by the Government of this country to control
and check the trade, but hitherto with but
partial success. To control the trade, treaties
have been made with the Sultan of Muscat,
with the friendly Arab chiefs on the Arabian
coast, and with the Shah of Persia. The
treaties with the Sultan of Muscat are acknowledged
to
be binding upon the Sultan of Zanzibar,
who has issued orders accordingly, and
they prohibit the export of slaves from Africa,
as well as their import from Africa into Asia,