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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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448 APPENDIX.<br />

systematically evaded, and liav<strong>in</strong>g been found<br />

not only <strong>in</strong>sufficient<br />

to protect the negro tribes<br />

<strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>terior of Africa from destruction, but<br />

rather to foster and encourage the foreign trade<br />

<strong>in</strong> slaves, her Majesty's Government, unless<br />

further securities can be obta<strong>in</strong>ed for the entire<br />

prohibition of the foreign slave-trade, will feel<br />

itself compelled to abrogate the treaty, and to<br />

take such further legitimate measures as it may<br />

f<strong>in</strong>d necessary to put an end to all slave-trade<br />

whatever, whether foreign or coast<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

" Further, that should the Sultan be will<strong>in</strong>g<br />

to enter <strong>in</strong>to a new treaty, hav<strong>in</strong>g for its object<br />

the entire abolition of the slave-trade, her<br />

Majesty's Government would agree to settle at<br />

<strong>Zanzibar</strong> a proportion of adult negroes, who<br />

might thereafter be captured by her Majesty's<br />

cruisers, provided the Sultan agreed to such<br />

measures for their protection and freedom as<br />

might be deemed necessary.<br />

" It has been represented to the Committee<br />

by some of the witnesses, that as the Sultan<br />

derives a considerable part of his revenues from<br />

the slave-trade, it would be necessary to make<br />

him some compensation for the loss he would<br />

susta<strong>in</strong> by the abolition of the trade.<br />

"It appears, from the evidence, that the Sultan<br />

of <strong>Zanzibar</strong> levies a tax of two dollars upon all<br />

slaves shipped from Kilwa for <strong>Zanzibar</strong>, and

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