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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211 ARA BOM Report, 1871—continued. Arabs—continued. Necessity of the Sultan being aided by a naval force in order to keep down the Northern Arabs, if’he would suppress the slave trade, Sir B. Frere 520, 521 Useless ness of treaties with Arabs, Rigby 609. 630 Piratical and independent character of the northern Arabs; summary measures desirable towards them, 26. 619-622 Circum stance of witness having made treaties with nearly all the chiefs m the Gulf of Aden, for the suppression of the slave trade. Sir W. Coghlan 919, 920. Operations of the Northern Arabs in Zanzibar, but not in the interior on the main land, Steere 1040, 1041. 1054-1059 Practice of the Northern Arabs in kidnapping slaves in Zanzibar, and shipping them at night, ib. 1054-1059 Power of the Sultan to put down the incursions of the Northern Arabs, ib. 1095-1098. 1106. Extracts from treaties, in different years, between Great Britain and Arab chieftains of ' the Persian Gulf, relative to piracy, the slave trade, &c., App. 100, 101. Statement by Mr. Ward, in letter of 22nd May 1869, that the Sultan of Zanzibar has no control over the Northern Arabs, App. 108. Views of Lieutenant Colonel Rigby in i860 as to the expediency of summary measures for preventing Arab incursions into the interior, App. 123. Statement by the Committee as to the slave dealers who procure the slaves from the interior being mostly Arabs, subjects of the Sultan of Zanzibar, Rep. iv Roving and predatory habits of the tribes to which the Northern Arabs belong, ib. Conduct of the whole slave trade by sea by Arabs from Muscat and other ports on the Arabian coast, ib. Sufficient protection against the Northern Arabs by means of a British naval force at Zanzibar, if the slave trade be entirely prohibited, Rep. viii. Arbitration {Muscat and Zanzibar'). Papers showing in detail the steps taken by the Bombay Government and by the Government of India in i860 and 1861 in arbitrating between Syud Thoweynee, the ruler of Muscat, and Syud Majeed, the ruler of Zanzibar ; arrangement ultimately by which the latter has since paid the former an annual subsidy of 40,000 crowns, App. 125 et seq. Communication from the Bombay Government to Brigadier Coghlan in March i860, appointing him to inquire into and report upon the merits of the dispute between the ruler of Muscat and the ruler of Zanzibar, App. 125. Letter from Brigadier Coghlan, dated 3 April i860, to the Bombay Government, with reference to certain difficulties in undertaking the inquiry in question, and making sug gestions on the subject, App. 125-127. Resolution by the Bombay Government, dated 16 April i860, leaving it entirely to the discretion of Brigadier Coghlan to carry out the investigation so as to arrive at what is right and expedient in the way of concession between the contending parties, App. 127, 128. Documentary evidence in detail explanatory of the arbitration by the Indian Government between the two rulers, and of the circumstances and conditions which led eventually to the award of an annual subsidy of 40,000 crowns to the Sultan of Muscat, to be paid by the Sultan of Zanzibar, App. 128 ei seq. Report of Brigadier Coghlan, dated 4 December i860, showing the conclusions arrived at, and offering sundry suggestions in connection with the permanent separation of Muscat from Zanzibar, App. 154-169. Resolutions arrived at by the Bombay Government in February 1861, upon the ques tions at issue ; proposition that the ruler of Zanzibar shall pay annually to the ruler of Muscat a subsidy of 40,000 crowns, App. 187-192. Final award by the Government of India in accordance with the views of the Bombay Government; official communications consequent thereupon, App. 192-200. Willingness expressed by Syud Majeed to comply with the award, App. 182. 207, 208 Statement of the claims and grievances presented by Syud Majeed to Brigadier Coghlan at Zanzibar in October i860, ib. 183-187 Satisfaction expressed with the award by Svud Thoweynee of Muscat, ib. 203, 204. B. Badger, Rev. Georqe Percy. Valuable assistance rendered by the Rev. Mr. Badger, as member of the Muscat-Zanzibar Commission in 1860—61, App. 129. Communication from the Rev. Mr. Badger, in charge of the Muscat-Zanzibar Com mission, dated Aden, 1 June 1861, explaining the results of his visit to Muscat in con nection with the award of an annual subsidy of 40,000 crowns, to be paid to the Sultan cf Muscat by the Sultan of Zanzibar, App. 201-203. Blockade of the Coast. See Cruisers. Bombay Government. Resolution of the Governor in Council in March 1861, upon the report

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