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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Report, 1871—continued. Compensation (^Sultan of Zanzibar')—continued. a year, now paid by Zanzibar to Muscat; witness, in fact, would offer no money com pensation for a suppression of the Zanzibar slave trade, Rigby 630-635, Letter from witness to the Governor of Bombay in February 1869, suggesting that the Sultan of Zanzibar be released from the payment of 8,000/. a year to the Imaum of Muscat ; further statement to this effect. Sir L. G. Heath 780. 784-786 Import ance of the Sultan of Zanzibar being induced to give up the import of slaves to Zan zibar ; belief that he would readily do this if relieved from the payment made to Muscat, Sir W. 899-903. 912-918 Belief that Syud Burgash would co-operate in suppressing the foreign slave trade if he were relieved of the subsidy paid to Muscat, Steere 1091-1094. Reference by the Committee to the proposal for releasing the Sultan of Zanzibar from the payment of the subsidy to Muscat, Rep. viii. Alteration of the circumsiances under which it was supposed this release might be effected, ib. Consideration of the proposal generally for compensating the Sultan of Zanzibar for the loss of revenue from an abolition of the slave trade ; calculation that the value to him of the legalised trade does not exceed 4,000/. a year. Rep, viii., ix. See also Clerk, Sir George, Condemnation of Slave Dhows. Condemnation of about thirty dhows every year, Churchill 294 Undue facilities for the condemnation of dhows by the British cruisers until the establishment of the Vice Admiralty Court at Zanzibar, ib. 335, 336. Several instances of illegal capture and destruction of trading dhows with some domestic slaves on board ; prejudice thereby to legitimate trade, Rothery 843-846. 854- 859 Conclusion that, save in very exceptional cases, all captured dhows should be taken into port, and should be sent before a prize court before condemnation, ib. 861, 862. 867-877: Complaint by native merchants at Aden in 1S63 ^s to trading dhows having been illegally condemned. Sir W. Coghlan 897. ^ Immediate destruction of the dhows captured by witness, including those having only one slave on board; justification of this mode of action, Colomb 1221-1235. 1244—j 246. 1255-1271. 1277. Admiralty instructions as to the destruction of captured vessels, App. 92. See also Cruisers, 1,2. Consuls and Vice Consuls. Explanation as to the difficulties with reference to carrying out the proposals of the Committee of 1870; necessity of consuls on the coast backed by force in order to carry out any prohibitory arrangements effectually, Hon. C. Vivian 118. 128-141. 146-154 Several points at which it is desirable to establish vice consulates, Hon. C. Vivian 135-138 ; Clmrchill ^35, 436 Expediency of an improved consular service and of the consular officers being placed on a better footing, Sir B. Frere 452. 477-479- 488. 491. 511- 517- Advantage of foreign consuls uniting with British consuls for the suppression of the slave trade, Rigby 581, 582. 665 Impracticability of a large staff of consular agents, the climate being most unhealthy, ib. 589-591. Importance of the appointment of vice consuls along the coast, Sir L. G. Heath 701- 711- Suggestion that a “floating” consul be employed, who should constantly be moving about, and should occasionally reside on shore at Kilwa and other points,IFa/Zer 958, 959 Usefulness of the appointment of vice consuls at some of the ports, Steere 1029-1031. Reference to the proposed appointment of a consular officer at Dar Selam; duties to be fulfilled by this officer. Rep. vii Probable necessity of a consular officer at Kilwa for a time as well as at Dar Selam, ib. Concurrence of the Committee in the view as to the necessity of an increase in the consular establishment. Rep. ix. Expediency of the expense being equally shared by the Indian and Imperial Governments, ib. Want of permission from the Sultan of Zanzibar to station vice consuls at Kilwa, Dar Selam, and Lam00, ib. See also Political Agency and Consulate. Cotton, Large quantities of cotton produced on the east coast. Waller 945. 970. Cruelty, See Intel ior of the Country. Journey to the Coast. Loss of Life. Sea Passage.

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