Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Title:: Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Year of publication:: 1871

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87 ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). be established would be in the interior of island, which General Rigby has told us is ^tremely unhealthy. t ] If the depot were es- ^WisPg(j jjj Zanzibar, would not you be afraid ^^t they might be taken as slaves again ?—That Quid depend on the measures that might be with a view to their protection ; if ample Gasures were taken, and the place became l^^ilised, then the children might be secure, but present the children would be as likely to be ^dnapped as not. 1349. Mr. Fowler.Have you any mission at Zanzibar ?—No. 1350. Mr. J. Talbot.l If they were put under the protection of the British flag at Zanzibar, what objection would there be to their being kept there ?—It is an open question ; if the Government decide on Zanzibar for a depot, no doubt our committee would consider the pro priety of going to Zanzibar. 1351. Mr. Ki.nnaird.\ The experiment at Nas- sick has answered thoroughly, has not it ? —It has been most satisfactory. Rev. Horace Waller, called in ; and further Examined. >.1352. Chairman.^ You have a letter from Livingstone, from which you wish to read j'aille extracts to the Committee? — Yes; this „^tter is dated 1st February 1867 ; he is writing the country of the Chipéta, which he de- ^^^ibes to be five days march from Lake Nyassa on east of it, and he says, ‘‘ I am a perfect bug- to these Coast Arab slave traders. Party ^Iter party, on hearing that the English were ?^Riing along the road, skedaddled away through ^V®h and brake and across pathless forests ; one old party, who had about 800 slaves, and just entering on a depopulated district of 10 pys’ march with them, finding that I had ^§bted on him, came forward and presented ;in ^ and big bag of flour. This man and brother ^^ded a dish of cooked meat on seeing that we really famishing. We had pretty hard lines 150 miles ; could not get food for either love money ; and then the depopulated part ! I .^Coniplished it on the morning of the eighth with four companions ; our food was all ex- l^^iided on the sixth day, and it was in hard blight that this good Samaritan slave trader be- a friend indeed.” He afterwards says, ^•^ear the sea coast the country is covered with ^^iise forest. Further inland the forest is more pen, but you seldom see the horizon ; then the ^Untry becomes undulating, and, from the crests , the earthen waves you may see mountains all Pout. The country about Mataka is Mago- *P®^o magnified ; a perfect rush of running rills flowing southwards and northwards, forming the Liendi and Rovuma, which unite at Ngomano. I counted 15 of these burns in one day’s march.” Further on, speaking of the slave traders, he says, “ Instead of a steamer, which 1 did my best to get on the lake, two Arab dhows ply their calling as slavers. The owner of one has swept a large tract on the western side of people ; at least, so say his own people. I hey kept their craft out of my way lest I should burn them.” In another part of his letter, he says, Some Arabs were fleeing from the resentment of Manganja, who resented their bringing arms and ammunition into the country for their destruction.” He is there re ferring to the plan adopted by the slave dealers of bringing arms and ammunition to set one tribe against the other. I can speak distinctly to the fact of its being the chief aim of the slave traders to set one tribe against the other, in order that they may bring war and the consequent destruction into the country which produces ju^t the state of things that makes slaves cheapest. Then further on, speaking of travelling with the Africans, he says, With them we crossed Kirk’s range, and got among Manganja in the primitive state, working in iron, and spinning buaze, and sowing grain extensively.” Buaze is a fibre used for nets. He is speaking there of a popula tion which had not been visited by the slave traders. ^•116. L 4 Mr. E. Hutchinson. 25 July 1871. Rev. H. Waller.

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