'The Slave Trade of East Africa.' [56] (65/108)
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Article III.
a His Highness the Sultan above named engages to protect, to the
utmost of his ability, all liberated slaves, and to punish severely any
attempt to molest them or to reduce them again to slavery.
Article /F.
^ Her Britannic Majesty engages that natives of Indian States under
British protection shall be prohibited from possessing slaves, and
from acquiring any fresh slaves in the meantime,^ from this date.
Article F.
The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be
exchanged, at Zanzibar, as soon as possible, but in any case in the
course of the Oth of Rabia-el-Akhir (5th of June, 1873) of the
months of ^ the date hereof. In witness whereof the respective
Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed their seals
to this Treaty, made the 5th of June, 1873, corresponding to the
9th of the month Rabia-el-Akhir, 1290.
(Signed) u John Kirk,
"
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Zanzibar,
(L.S.)
" The mean in God's sight.
(Signed) " NASIR-BlN-SAlD-BlN-ABDALLAH. ?, f
With his own hand.
• li, Th ® T 01 '? 8 " ^ ! hG meantime " are redundant here. They were connected
wi+h +li 0rigl + M draft and in m y translation, from which they are copied
1 at sentence ' fr oni and after a date to be hereafter fixed G P B
T No seal is appended to this signature. The defect is made good by the skna-
ture and seal of the Sultan to the ratifications following.—G. P. 13.
CHAPTER IV.
P resent P osition of M atters.
Thus seems to have been accomplished the object in view
and for a time it was supposed that the Slave Trade had received
a severe check; hut those acquainted with the Trade remem
bered that the Select Committee of the House of Commons in
1871, referring to a possible treaty between Her Maiestv's
Government and the Sultan of Zanzibar, reported as follows
"It has been stated in evidence that some time must elapse
alter the measures above referred to have been put in force
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The Slave Trade of East Africa.
Author: Edward Hutchinson, F.R.G.S., F.S.A. (Lay Secretary, Church Missionary Society).
Publication details: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, E.C.
Physical Description: 1 map; octavo.
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