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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N U M P O L 231 Report, 1871—continued. 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. P. 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. 420. G G 3 Great

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