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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226 J O U KAY Report, 1871—continued. Journey to the Coast—continued. which the slaves have to be brought to the coast, Hon. C. Vivian 25. 35. 140 Cruel treatment of the slaves on the journey to the coast, Churchill 287, 28& Information in detail relative to the system upon which the slave trade has been carried on in the interior, and the frightful sufferings and mortality of the slaves whilst being driven to the coast. Waller 927, et seq, The transit to the coast sometimes occupies three months, ib. 941 Excessive suffering and great mortality during the journey, Steere 991-993- Circumstance of the large majority of the slaves being now brought a distance of nearly 500 miles by land before they reach the coast, Rep. iii. Concurrence of testimony as to the excessive cruelties and horrors of the land journey to the coast, and as to the great mortality on the route from violence, ib. iv. Statement that not one in five of the victims of the slave hunters, and in some cases not one in ten, ever reach the coast alive, ib. V. K. Kaye, Sir John William. (Analysis of his Evidence.)—Long experience of witness as Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 187-189 Infor mation relative to the joint office of agent and consul held by the representative of India and Great Britain at Zanzibar, 190-194 Arrangement that on 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, 195 Statement in detail in explanation and support of the claim made by the India Office, and eventually concurred in by the 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 of the Treasury to accede to this arrangement, 195, 196. 215-230. 239, 240. 267, 268. 281. 283. Explanatory statement relative to the circumstances under under which the Sultan of Zanzibar is under obligation to pay a subsidy of 40,000 dollars a year to the sovereign of Muscat; usurpations and complications in Muscat since this arrangement was made, so that there is a difference of opinion between the Government of India and the Imperial Government upon the question whether the payment of the subsidy should be continued, 197-204. 207. 265. 271-273 Belief that if the Sultan of Zanzibar were released from the payment of 8,000 1. a year to the ruler of Muscat he would be willing to suppress the Zanzibar slave traffic, 201. 255, 256 Conclusion as to the necessity of compensating the Sultan of Zanzibar for relinquishing the slave traffic not already prohibited by treaty; belief as to the sufficiency of a payment of 8,ooo /. a year for the purpose, 205, 206. 241- 256. 274-277. 281. Considerable importance of the trade of Zanzibar with India and Great Britain, 208- 213. 238 Recommendation that the suppression of the slave traffic be carried out gradually and concurrently with the introduction of free labour, 213. 238. 241. 251 ¡Suggestion made by the Slave Trade Committee at the Foreign Office for the establish ment of steam communication between India and Zanzibar, 214 Statement as to its having been notified to the Foreign Office by the India Office that, as the 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, 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 the suppression of the slave traffic, 221-232. 242-256. 277. 281 Circum stance (d the Imperial Government now paying more than 3,000/. a year in respect of liberated slaves at Aden and Bombay, 234-236 Saving to be effected, not only as regards liberated slaves, but in time by the withdrawal of the squadron, if compensation be"paid for the suppression of the traffic, 234. 248-252. 283. Expected objection by the Government of India to pay an increased sum towards the expenses of the squadron, 257-259 Large portion of the time of the agent at Zanzibar taken up with sla ve trade matters, 263, 264 Probability of the Sultan encouraging the tiade with a view to obtaining a subsidy or compensation from Great Britain, 265, 266. Consideration of the question whether Muscat has not forfeited its claim to the pay ment of 8,000Z. a year from Zanzibar on account of the facilities given to the import of slaves to Muscat, 269-273 Exceptions taken to certain recommendations by Sir Leopold Heath for the purchase of Zanzibar; purchase and annexation are alike out of the question, 281, 282 Doubt as to the number of slaves required for legitimate or domestic slavery in Zanzibar, 284.

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