ox  SLAVE  TKADE  (EAST  COAST  OF  AFRICA).

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Tuesday,  '2bth  July  1871.

MEMBERS  PRESENT  :

Mr.  Russell  Gturney  in  the  Chair.

Sir  John  Hay.
Mr.  John  Talbot.
Mr.  O’Conor.
Sir  Robert  Anstruther.
Mr.  Crum-Ewing.
Lord  F.  Cavendish.
The  Rev.  Edward  Steere,  LL.D.,  and
severally  examined.

Mr.  Kennaway.
Mr.  Robert  Fowler.
Mr.  Shaw  Lefevre.
Mr.  Kinnaird.
Mr.  GiljDin.
r  Admiral  Charles  F.  Hillyar,  C.B.,  were

Major  General  Christopher  Palmer  Righy  further  examined.
Captain  Philip  Columb,  E.N.,  Mr.  Charles  Allington,  and  Mr.  Edioard  Hutchinson,  were
severally  examined.

The  Rev.  Horace  Waller  was  further  examined.

[Adjourned  till  Monday  next,  at  Twelve  o’clock.

Monday,  31  si  July  1871.

MEMBERS  present  :

Mr.  Russell  Gurney  in  the  Chair.

Mr.  Gilpin.
Sir  John  Hay.
Mr.  O’Conor.
Mr.  Kennaway.
Lord  F.  Cavendish.
Mr.  Percy  Wyndham.
The  Committee  deliberated.

Viscount  Enfield.
Mr.  Kinnaird.
Sir  Robert  Anstruther.
Mr.  John  Talbot.
Mr.  R.  Fowler.

[Adjourned  till  Thursday  next,  at  Two  o’clock.

Thursday,  3rd  August  1871.

MEMBERS  PRESENT:

Mr.  Russell  Gurney  in  the  Chair.

Sir  John  Hay.
Mr.  Shaw  Lefevre.
Mr.  O’Conor.
Mr.  Kennaway.
Viscount  Enfield.

Lord  F.  Cavendish.
Mr.  Kinnaird.
Mr.  Gilpin.
Mr.  R.  Fowler.

DRAFT  REPORT  proposed  by  the  Chairman,  read  a  first  time,  as  follows:
slave  trade  in  negroes,  on  the  East  Coast  of  Africa,  is  now  almost
pan  of  A  to  a  trade  between  the  dominions  of  Zanzibar  on  the  one  hand,  and  the
and  hv  Persia  and  the  Island  of  Madagascar  on  the  other  hand,  the  principal

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