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Number of Slaves. Belief that the export of slaves from the dominions of the Sultan of 
Zanzibar is considerably more than 20,000 a year ; small portion required for domestic 
labour in Zanzibar, the rest going to Persia, &c., Hon. C. Vivian 23, 24. 28-34. 37* 4^ 
Calculation as to about 20,000 slaves being imported into Zanzibar annually, the 
great majority of whom are re-exported. Sir L. G. Heath 684, 685. 741 Decrease of 
the slave trade on the East Coast since 1867, Hillyar 1158-1160. 
Great difficulty in arriving at an exact conclusion as to the number of slaves who 
leave the African coast yearly. Rep. iv Annual number exported from Kilwa to 
Zanzibar, and elsewhere ; total of 97,203 in five years, ih. iv, v. Export of numbers 
of slaves from other places on the coast as well as from Kilwa, ih. v. 
Nyassa. At present the slaves are chiefly brought from the neighbourhood of Lake 
Nyassa, Hon. C. Vivian 26. 35 Immense extent to which the country in the interior, 
about Lake Nyassa, &c., has been and is being devastated and depopulated in conse 
quence of the slave trade; testimony of Dr. Livingstone adverted to hereon. Waller 931- 
950. 978-980 The slaves taken to Zanzibar are now brought from the west side of 
Lake Nyassa, ib. 951, 952. 
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Palmenton, Lord. Concurrence in the views of Lord Palmerston in favour of putting down 
the slave trade with a high hand, Rigby 574, 575. 580. 
Persia. Nature of the treaties with Persia with respect to the prohibition of the import of 
slaves by sea; inconvenience of the stipulation that there must be a Persian officer on 
board a British cruiser when capturing slavers, Hon. C. Vivian 8, 9. 155, 156 Refusal 
of Persia to prohibit the import of slaves by land, ib. 156 Satisfactory assurances 
received fiom Persia relative to treaty engagements, ib. 165, 166 Contemplated 
representations to the Persian government in order to obtain all possible facilities for the 
seizure of slaves, Sir B. Frere 489-492. 502, 503. 
Firman issued by the Shah of Persia to the Governor of Pars in June 1848, prohibiting 
the import of slaves to Persia by sea alone, App. 98 Further firman issued by the 
Shah to the Governor of Ispahan and Persian Arabia in June 1848, prohibiting the 
import of slaves by sea, ib. 98, 99 Convention in August 1851 for the detention and 
search of Persian vessels by British and East India Company’s cruisers, ib. 99, 100. 
Expediency of negotiations being entered into with the Government of Persia, in order 
to secure greater facilities of search in vessels suspected of carrying slaves, Rep. x. 
Political Agency and Consulate {Zanzibar'). Information relative to the functions of the 
political agent of the Indian Government at Zanzibar, who is also consul, there being 
also a vice-consul and clerk; undue expense to India in respect of the former, 
Hon. C. Vivian 91-97. 1^3 It is proposed to share the expense of the agency 
between the Imperial and Indian Governments, ih. 143. 
Information relative to the joint office of agent and consul held by the representative 
of India and Great Britain at Zanzibar, Sir J. W. Kaye 190-194 Arrangement that 
all matters connected with the slave trade, the entire instructions to the agent, should 
come from the Foreign Office, and that the India Office should have nothing to do with 
it, ib. 195. 
Statement in detail in explanation and support of the claim made by the India Office» 
and eventually concurred in by (he Foreign Office, that half the expense of the Zanzibar 
agency (the total being 3,019/. a year), should be borne by the Imperial Exchequer ; 
comment upon the refusal oí the Treasury to accede to this arrangement. Sir J. ff. Kaye 
195, 196. 215-230. 239,240. 267,268. 281. 283 Statement as to its having been 
notified to the Foreign Office by the India Office that as (he Treasury decline to pay a 
moiety of the expenses of the agency at Zanzibar, instructions relating to the slave 
trade should no longer be sent to the agent, ¿ó. 220-224. 260-262 . Very injurious 
effect of the refusal of the Treasury to pay about 1,500/. a year towards the Zanzibar 
agency; necessity however of some compensation being also paid to the Sultan for a 
suppression of the slave traffic, ?7>. 221-232. 242-256. 277-281 Large portion of the 
time of the agent at Zanzibar taken up with slave trade matters, ib. 263, 264. 
Outline of witness’s duties as political agent and as consul ; very heavy work arising 
out of the slave trade, and the proceedings in the Vice Admiralty Court, Churchill 291- 
294 Very limited staff of the consulate with reference to the work to be done, ib. 294 
Estimate of 3,100/. a year as the cost of the political agency and staff, ib. 324. 
Contemplated increase in the present staff of the agency and consulate at Zanzibar, 
Rep. vii Reference to the proposed division between the Imperial and Indian Govern 
ments of the cost of the agency and consulate, and the result of the objection made thereto 
by the Treasury, ib. 
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