"مُلخّص المراسلات المتعلّقة بشؤون زنزبار من ١٨٥٦ إلى ١٨٧٢." أعدّه النقيب ب. د. هندرسون، الملحق بالإدارة الخارجية" [ظ‎‎١‎٢‎٨] (١١٤/٩٦)

Slave Trade-
Earl Russell regarding a new phase in the slave trade. Compelled by the vigi
lance of Her Majesty's cruisers to try every possible expedient for evadrrW
search, the slavers found the protection they needed under the Prench fla^
The right of search being in such cases denied to cruisers, it became the
object of all slavers to procure French registers, and these were obtained with
• French colonic in the Comoro ff NoSS * B f, and Magotta.* When
Islands. Colonel .Playfair wrote there were ten countrv
vessels under the French flag in Zanzibar harbour,
w lose character was more than doubtful.— {Proceedings, Political A
December 1863, Nos. 309 310.) ' A '
o i 10 , 0 V 1 , ' sl , avers tkansfek their operations to K eelwa —Lieutenant.
o onel Playfair, in October 186-!, wrote that the slave dealers, failini; to obtain
cargoes of slaves at Zanzibar with the same facility as formerly, had transferred
their operations to Kcelwa upon which the Sultan immediately issued orders
for controlhng the traffic at that port with the view of confining the slave
A-os.V^ B ) 6 enjoined by the treaty.-(P^Vica/, A, January 1864,'
101. Repressive measures recommended bt Colonel Platfair—
Being called upon for his opinion as to the best method of,stopping the
exportation of slaves from the East Coast of Africa, Colonel Plavfafr, on the
0th September 1863, suggested that a powerful steamer, aided if possible bv a
gun-boat, should be stationed between the island of Socotra and the mainlLd
, ] nC r , reC0 7 raCnilcd aIso tllat a Na tive agent should be stationed at
Keelwa, and a Consul appointed at Mozambique. In the openin"- para^ranhs
of his memorandum, Colonel Playfair observed— 0 a 0 raphs
"There is do treaty prohibition regarding the transport of slaves from port to nor+ in
dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar namelv from Pin,, nil , 0 .f ort in i tbe
hrait to Magdushoua, the northern boundary, bit His Holiness S inidf^
which materially interfere to prevent any but his' aetual subject thns transTortingZer 10 ' 18
First, he has given authority to our cruisers to seize any vessel earrvino- - j
ed with a custom-house manifest, statin^ the exact numW • arr - ,n " s j aves nn P r ovid.
those in which a single slave may be fouod" n exeess of TmUV ^eT f the T
and second he has engaged to prevent the transport of slaves entirelv pi n f ^
to port in his own dominions, durin<* the season whpn Amlic f n i r ^ or
eoast for the purposes of the slave trade^ay from the 1st of January! thelSth of th,S
" If we are not to interfere with the aetual of slavery on the east pn.-f f a •
these concessions appear to me as much as can reasonably be demanded ol Hi hf h j
asmnchashecan make without imminent danger ofLing hisa ^b'abty 1 !
anthorifytliSw^lmtrloZii^ his
police regulations are so defective, that he can do little nu tp tV 011 6 18 80 Weak ' an{i
of slaves from the port of Zanzibar." prevent the open exportation
102. Colonel Felly's opinion on the opetmtmxrc ^
squadron.— In December 1863 Colonel Pellv thon it -T . T 1 BE SLAVE
Gulf, submitted to the Bombav Governmont Vnr. ^ e sident in the Persian
trade, and suggested that the nivil divi«i* njc i f 3mai 'ks regarding the slave
if it was stationed on the coast line of Arabia. ^ 0 P erate wit h more effect
and z^
88 ^anziuar, with whom our slave treaty is