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house at Kilwa between 1862 and 1867, distinguishing those sent to Zanzibar from those 
shipped to other places :— 
Elsewhere. 
5.500 
3.500 
3,000 
4,000 
4.500 
20,500 
“ 13. From a despatch of Dr. Kirk, dated 1st February 1870, it appears that 14,944. 
were exported from Kilwa in the year ending 23rd August 1869. But besides those 
passed through the Custom-house at Kilwa, numbers are exported from other places on 
the coast. 
“ 14. Snch is the extent to which the exportation of slaves takes place from the 
Zanzibar territory on the Fast Coast of Africa. It has also been shown that there the 
slave trade still exists from the Portuguese territory to the Island of Madagascar, and 
that slaves are still imported into Turkish ports in the Bed Sea, General Bigby having 
recently seen fresh importations even in the civilised port of Suez. It must not, however, 
be thought that those who are taken captive, great as the numbers are, represent in- any 
degree the total number of the sufferers from this iniquitous traffic. Such is the fearful 
loss of life resulting from this traffic, such the miseries which attend it, that, according 
to Dr. Livingstone and others, notone in five, in some cases not one in ten, of the victims 
of the slave hunters ever reach the coast alive. 
“ 15. Measures have at various times been adopted by the Government of this country 
to control and check the trade, but hitherto with but partial success; these measures 
have been two-fold. 
y To control the trade, treaties have been made with the Sultan of Muscat, with the 
friendly Arab chiefs on the Arabian coast, and with the Shah of Persia. The treaties 
with the Sultan of Muscat are acknowledged to be binding upon the Sultan of Zanzibar, 
who has issued orders accordingly, and they prohibit the export of slaves from Africa, as 
well as their import from Africa into Asia, Arabia, the Bed Sea, or Persian Gulf, but 
permit the transport of slaves to and fro between Kilwa, Zanzibar, and any coast port up 
to Lamoo, which is the northern limit of the Sultan of Zanzibar’s dominions. 
‘‘ 16. The result of the treaties, as far as the Sultan of Zanzibar is concerned, is, that 
not only are the slave traders enabled to rendezvous in great numbers at Zanzibar, but 
the slaver, laden with slaves, starting from Zanzibar, and provided with proper clearances 
for Lamoo, is enabled to make the first half of the journey north unmolested by British 
cruisers. 
“ 17. The object of the British Government in assenting to these treaty provisions was 
to ^'Oid interference with the status of domestic slavery in the dominions of the Sultan 
. f\”/^oar, as appears by a Despatch from the Bight Honourable Earl Bussell dated 
14th March 1864, in which it is stated that Her Majesty’s Government do not claim the 
right to interfere in the status of domestic slavery in Zanzibar, nor with the bona fide 
transport of slaves from one part of the Sultan’s teritory to another. 
“ 18. It appears from the evidence that the admission of the Sultan of Zanzibar’s right 
to transport slaves between his island and coast dominions has afforded a cover for the 
foreign slave trade, as the traders procure at Zanzibar or Kilwa the requisite port clear 
ances and passes for Lamoo, and thence run northwards, taking their chance of escapin«- 
the British cruisers. ^ ^ 
Year. 
1862- 63 
1863- 64 
1864- 65 
1865- 66 
1866- 67 
Zanzibar. 
1 3,000 
14,000 
13,821 
18,344 
17.538 
Total Exports from Kilwa 1 
in Five vears - - I 
76,703 
20,500 
97,203 
‘"19. There are no means of ascertaining the exact numbers intended for the foreign 
market, but different witnesses have estimated the numbers annually needed to maintain 
® of slave labour in the dominion of Zanzibar, at from 1,700 to 3,000, which 
wou d leave at least 17,000 as the number destined for the foreign slave market. The 
rea y stipulations and agreements with the Sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar have been 
cariie mto effect by various Acts of Parliament and Orders in Council, which contain 
pioxnsion tor the establishment of courts of adjudication for the trial of vessels captured 
as slavers at Zanzibar. 
r ,1 carrying out of these measures has been committed to the Political Agent 
o the Governor General of India, who also holds the appointment of British Consul at 
^anzibar, and, in addition to the ordinary duties of a Political Agent and Consul, is 
®Admiralty Court. The expenses of this establishment are borne by 
the Indian Government, ^ 
420. 
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21. The