Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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to cover tlie foreign slave-trade, wliicli his
Highness is bound by treaty to prevent, and
which her Majesty's Government are also
determined to suppress.'
" It appears from the evidence that the transport
of slaves between the island and coast
dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar has afforded
a cover for the foreign slave-trade, as the
traders procure at Zanzibar or Kilwa the requisite
port clearances and passes for Lamoo, and
thence run northwards, taking their
chance of
escaping the British cruisers.
" There are no means of ascertaining the exact
numbers intended for the foreign market, but
different witnesses have estimated the
numbers
annually needed to maintain the supply of slave
labour in the dominion of Zanzibar, at from
1700 to 4000, which would leave at least
16,000 as the number destined for the foreign
slave-market. The treaty stipulations and
agreements with the Sultans of Muscat and
Zanzibar have been carried into effect by various
Acts of Parliament and Orders in Council,
which contain provision for the establishment
of courts of
adjudication for the trial of vessels
captured as slavers at Zanzibar,
" The carrying out of these measures has been
committed to the Political Agent of the Government
of India, who also holds the appointment