"معاملة العبيد واحتجازهم من قبل الكوتشيين في زنزبار" [و‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٦٣/١٨)

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5. Perhaps I ought not to say anything about Mauritius at all, because not only
it has no connexion with the slave trade, but my informant knows very little
about that island.
6. My informant lived at Zanzibar, Viboo, and Mozambique. He also visited
the following places on the coast:—Mombaz, Mungonee, Meggijima (two small
islands near Zanzibar), Kiloa, Mungao, Pemba, Chunga, and Luri. He has a
brother and other relations at Vibu. He gives the above figures as a rough
estimate, and by no means as accurate.
7. With the exception of Brahmins and others shown above as miscellaneous
castes, the Indians are traders and their employes. They carry on trade with
Bombay, Kutch, Kurrachee, and the Portuguese possessions on the western coast
of India.
8. They export to India ivory, chundroas (gum copal), specie, tortoiseshell,
amber, cloves, rhinoceros skins, timber, cocoa-nuts, horns, shells, and one or two
kinds of corn (mug, Indian corn, jowar, &c.).
9. They import from India piece goods, metals, wheat, spices, rice, sugar,
molasses, beads, and dates.
10. There is no slave trade with India.
11 In the port of Zanzibar itself, Indian traders are not concerned in the slave
trade' or do not own slaves. They employ negroes in domestic and other works,
but pay for their services. There may be a few negroes once owned as slaves by
Bhatias and Khojas, but they are no longer slaves now. The negroes know this
well, although, owing to good treatment, they do not leave their masters.
12. The same is to be said of Lamu and Mombaz.
13. In Kiloa, it is believed, that the slave trade is secretly carried on. Whether
any Indian traders are concerned in it my informant is unable to say.
U He suspects that in other, and more out of the way places, in the province
of Zanzibar such as Toonghee, Musimba, Funghari, Looraba, Than S® e ' ^ a "^'
r! i iu fflc. ^nianp-a it is carried on by the natives. He does not think that
^^In'dtan^ra^ers are' concenied tn it, although they visit all these places for
purposes of trade.
l ^ Rut traffic in human beings exists more or less on the coast to the south o
Zaiizibar^ and hi^ the adjoining iifands. It receives little or no check from the
local authorities.
ir The number of slaves exported from these parts is, however, small com-
16 ; PtL rXr bought and sold to supply local demand. Every one who
P , n Hnmestic servant^)r labourer buys a slave, and there are many who own
wa h nnis of slaves These slaves are brought to the coast by professional
each numbers oi feiaves. . n f thp interior^ who barter them for piece
^veoatehers (themselves ^ th^ .nter^r),^ to
goods, beads, fire ^™ a n e ffr oes as in hunting. The natives of the coast, and
use as g do not go into the interior. They are afraid to go
fh P T Ls4s guns the catchers usually carry knives, spears, and bows and
there, ^sidesguns ^ Mad r} besides negroes, women of a
certain race, rmarkable for personal attractions, are sa.d to be sold and
h0 t\e inaian traders are not 'Sdia^s 0^0
the adjoining islands.
• p i ^ from these ports is said to have of late dwindled
.18. The e x P®^ o g ^ ^ exists as a local institution and has not
to a small f f'S in negroes being freely carried on by the mhab.tants
^^i^'lvl'trade^sfrom the^nterioras well asa.nong themselves.
♦ t Zanzibar and other places, where British Officers have made
I Q Except at Zanzibar anu uu r said to have no notion of
the in—^^Stive jingles and brought to the coast, they ever
afterwards ?uffer themselves to he treated as slaves.