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REPORT: SLAVE TRADE EAST COAST OF AFRICA 
vity in conducting the greater part of the work of the department for some years, 
they would recommend that no technical rules of the service be allowed to 
interfere with his appointment as Political Agent at Zanzibar. 
In view of the considerable commercial interests which Germany, France, 
America, and Portugal possess in commerce with Zanzibar and the surroundings, 
your Committee suggest that Her Majesty’s Government invite the co-operation 
of these several Governments in the suppression of a traffic so subversive of these 
interests. There is reason to believe that such an overture would be responded 
to, especially by the Government at Berlin in virtue of the preponderance of 
German trade at the port of Zanzibar. 
It would be also desirable to enter into negotiations with the Government 
of Persia, to secure, if possible, for Her Majesty’s officers greater facilities of 
search in vessels suspected of carrying slaves. 
4 August 1871.