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ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). 
into account; the pay of the political 
^o^nt is 1,400 rupees per month; the doctor 
eceives 650 rupees; the clerk, 100 rupees; the 
erpreter, 60 rupees, and then there are nine or 
u peous who receive in all 190 rupees ; all that 
^ together, with a certain amount for con- 
^ ^gent expenses, boats, flags, stationery, house 
though the establishment of the surgeon 
the agency belong to Government, still you 
in/^ put down 100 rupees as the amount of 
w that the capital expended on those houses 
ould render), would make it 3,100 7. Then if 
w established vice consuls on the coast, it 
uiild make it a little more than that, because 
40n would be something like 300 7. or 
th ^ ^ year for each one ; so that if you had 
^/^e or four, it Avould come to about 1,200 7., 
^ich, Avith the other amount, Avould have to be 
between the tAvo GoA’ernments. 
; 25. 'hiv. Foioler.'] You spoke of 3,000 slaves 
^ lUg required for the population of Zanzi- 
are those slaves kindly treated? — They 
l^i^.^ery Avell treated in the Island of Zanzibar, 
ef course they are always slaA^es ; the master 
ni'n-L poAver of life or death over them ; he 
j ^ght be amenable to a local court of justice, but 
do not think he Avould be very severely 
1 Uiushed for killing a slave. The blood money of 
ihmaccording to the value of the slave 
hß is Avhat they call a green slave 
tb 1 y® u slave just come from the interior), 
® blood money is only 25 dollars ; if he is at 
fo^. ^^^ustomed to manual labour it is 50 dollars ; 
be ^î’tizan, a bricklayer, and so on, it Avould 
it, ^ dollars, and for a good looking concubine 
'^^ouldbe 100 dollars. 
26. There is no restraint upon the treatment 
of slaves by their masters, except their oAvn in 
terests ?—That is so ; they are treated as you 
would treat your horse. 
327. But the slaA^es are generally kindly 
treated? — They are very kindly treated, except 
on the transit betAveen the coast of Africa and 
the coast of Arabia ; I Avould not say they are 
harshly treated there, but they are packed very 
closely, and ill fed ; I take it that they are ill 
fed because they are much more easily managed 
Avhen they are Aveak, and in ill condition, than 
Avhen they are strong ; if they Avere A'^ery strong 
they might overpoAver the creAV. 
328. Are you acquainted Avith Egypt? — 
Yes. 
329. Would you consider that, practically, the 
system of slavery in Zanzibar was like the 
system of slavery in Egypt?—I think there is 
very little difference. 
330. I have ahvays understood that in Egypt 
the slaves are very kindly treated ?—Yes ; they 
are so in Zanzibar, too. 
331. I presume that in Egypt there is more 
restraint upon the poAver of life and death, for 
instance?—Yes; though the law AAmuld be the 
same, the Koran. In Turkey, since Sultan 
Abdul Mejid came into poAver, they have insti 
tuted the Ka-noon, Avhich is a laAv beyond the 
Koran ; there is no such laAv as the Ka-noon in 
Zanzibar. 
. 4^^' J presume that contact with Avestern 
civilisation Avhich has operated in Turkey and 
Egypt, Avould not have had any effect in Zan 
zibar?—Very little. There are A^ery fsAV Euro 
peans there; still, the Arabs of Zanzibar are 
very gentle, and I may say, quite as civilised 
as the Turks. 
Mr. 
Churchill 
13 July 
1871. 
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