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ON SLAVE TRADE (eAST COAST OF AFRICA).
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.”
DRAFT REPORT proposed by the Chairman, read a second time, paragraph by
paragraph.
Paragraph 1.—An Amendment made.—Another Amendment proposed at the end of
the paragraph, as amended, to add the words : “ It was reported in 1867, by
General Rigby, to be the chief market of the world for the supply of ivory, gum,
and copal, and to have a rapidly increasing trade in hides, oils, seeds, and dyes, while
sugar and cotton promise to figure largely amongst its future exports. The conn,try in
the interior of that part of Africa, and of which Zanzibar is the outlet, is said, according
1o the recent accounts of Livingstone and others, to be equal in resources to any part of
India, and to be, as a rule, more healthy. Iron abounds in all directions, coal is to be
found, and cotton can be grown to any extent”—(Mr. Kennaioay).—Question put. That
those words be added to the paragraph.—The Committee divided :
Ayes, I.
Mr. Kinnaird.
Sir John Hay.
Mr. O’Conor.
Mr. Kennaway.
Noes, 3.
Viscount Enfield.
Lord F. Cavendish.
Mr. Shaw Lefevre.
Paragraph, as amended, agreed to.
Paragraphs 2—7, agreed to.
Paragraphs 8 and 9, amended, and agreed to.
Paragraphs 10—14, agreed to.
Q.696.
Q.970.
Amendment proposed, after paragraph 14, to insert the following new paragraph :—
The slaves when liberated from the dhows have been sent of late years to Aden and
Bombay, being maintained there at a heavy cost to the Imperial Exchequer. In time
past some have been landed at the Seychelles, a dependency of the Mauritius. The
climate in these islands is said to suit them exactly, and the inhabitants to be anxious for
emancipated slave labour. Every variety of tropical product grows there in the greatest
abundance”—(Mr. Kennaway).—Question, That this paragraph be inserted in the
proposed Report,— put, and agreed to.
Paragraphs lò—20, amended, and agreed to.
Paragraphs 21—23, agreed to.
Paragraph 24.—Amendment proposed, in line 6, to leave out from the word ‘‘deadlock”
to the end of the paragraph—(Mr. Shaw Lefevre).—Question put. That the words
proposed to be left out stand part of the paragraph.—The Committee divided :
Ayes, 4.
Mr. Kinnaird.
Sir John Hay.
Mr. O’Conor.
Mr. Gilpin.
Noes, 4.
Viscount Enfield.
Lord F. Cavendish.
Mr. Kennaway.
Mr. Shaw Lefevre.
Whereupon the Chairman declared himself with the Noes.
Paragraph 24, as amended, agreed to.
Paragraph 25, agreed to.
Paragraph 26, amended, and agreed to.
Paragraph 27, agreed to.
Anaendment proposed, after paragraph 27, to insert the following new paragraph
‘‘ Evidence given before your Committee shows the very great inconvenience and loss resulting
to British residents, and a frequent diversion of trade into foreign bottoms from the
want of any regular postal communication with Zanzibar ; the mails lying sometimes at
Seychelles for months together waiting for a chance vessel. It has been stated to them
that a very small subsidy would suffice to start monthly steam communication, either with
the Seychelles, distant about 800 miles, in correspondence with French steamers running
from Aden, or from the latter port direct ”—(Mr. Kennaway).—Question put. That this
paragraph be inserted in the proposed Report,—put, and agreed to.
Paragraph 28, agreed to.
Paragraph 29. Amendment proposed, in line 2, to leave out from the words “ Foreign
420. Q 2 Trade”
Q, 596, 604.
