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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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APPENDIX. 453<br />

bear<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>d his long and tried experience<br />

of Africa, its climate, its slave-trade difficulties,<br />

his knowledge of the Sultan, and his activity <strong>in</strong><br />

conduct<strong>in</strong>g the greater part of the work of the<br />

department for some years, they would recommend<br />

that no technical rules of the service bo<br />

allowed to <strong>in</strong>terfere with his appo<strong>in</strong>tment as<br />

Political Agent at <strong>Zanzibar</strong>.<br />

"In view of the considerable commercial<br />

<strong>in</strong>terests which Germany, France, America,<br />

and Portugal possess <strong>in</strong> commerce with <strong>Zanzibar</strong><br />

and the surround<strong>in</strong>gs,, your Committee<br />

suggest that her Majesty's Government <strong>in</strong>vite<br />

the co-operation of these several Governments<br />

<strong>in</strong> the suppression of a traffic so subversive of<br />

these <strong>in</strong>terests. <strong>The</strong>re is reason to believe that<br />

such an overture would be responded to, especially<br />

by the Government at Berl<strong>in</strong>, <strong>in</strong> virtue<br />

of the preponderance of German trade at the<br />

port of <strong>Zanzibar</strong>.<br />

" It would be also desirable to enter <strong>in</strong>to<br />

negotiations with the Government of Persia, to<br />

secure, if possible, for her Majesty's officers<br />

greater facilities of search <strong>in</strong> vessels suspected<br />

of carry<strong>in</strong>g slaves."<br />

August 4, 1871.<br />

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