"أوراق تتعلق بتجارة الرقيق على الساحل الشرقي لأفريقيا والنظام المتبع لكبحها" [ظ‎‎٥‎٠] (٧٢/٤٠)

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No. 48.
Mr. Churchill to the Earl of Clarendon.—{Received April 17.)
(No. 8.)
My Lord, Zanzibar, February 19, 1869.
I HAVE the honour to inclose a copy of my despatch No. 12 of this day's date,
addressed to C. Gonne, Esq., Acting Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay,
relative to the supposed survivors of the " St. Abbs."
I have, &c.
(Signed) HY. A. CHURCHILL.
Inclosure in No. 48.
Mr, Churchill to the Acting Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay.
Sir, Zanzibar, February 19, 1869.
I HAVE the honour to report that Mr. Heale, the gentleman who was at Brava, has
latterly written to me to say that he had been unable to learn anything respecting the men
said to be in captivity in the Somali country. The sum of 1001. was offered for every
captive, but no response was made during the six months that Mr. Heale was at Brava
from any quarter, although the most influential Chief of Brava had made the offer known
far and near.
I myself, when off Brava in November last, made many inquiries of the slaves and
others on board Her Majesty's ship " Daphne," some of them had been in the Somali
country, but only one had heard, some years ago, when he was at Merka, that a search
was being made for certain white men said to have been enslaved in the interior, but he
had heard nothing of the men themselves.
I have, &c.
(Signed) HY. A. CHURCHILL.
No. 49.
Mr. Churchill to the Earl of Clarendon.—{Received April 17.)
(No. 4.)
My Lord, Zanzibar, February 24, 1869.
I HAVE the honour to inclose a copy of my despatch No. 15 of the 24th instant,
addressed to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, relative to a dhow captured by Her
Majesty's ship "Star," and supposed to have been the one taken by Majesty's ship
" Wasp " in 1865, which escaped, carrying off three British seamen.
I have, &c.
(Signed) HY. A. CHURCHILL.
Inclosure I in No. 49.
Mr. Churchill to the Acting Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay.
gj r Zanzibar, February 24, 1869.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith inclosed, for the information of his
Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, the copy of a despatch that I
have had occasion to address to the Political Resident at Aden, with regard to an inscrip
tion found carved on the poop of a dhow latterly captured by Her Majesty's^ ship "Star,
and supposed to have been made by one of the unfortunate seamen of the Wasp," who
were put on board a Soori dhow engaged in the Slave Trade on or about the 12th April,
1865, and of whose fate nothing is known. It was supposed at the time that the men had
deserted, but from the information I have gathered, they seem to have been overpowered
by the Arabs, and were taken north to Pemba. Nothing has ever been heard of them
after they were seen at Pemba, and it is presumed that they must either have been
murdered or be in captivitv in some secluded part of Arabia.
I have, &c.
(Signed) HY. A. CHURCHILL.