"ملف XXXVIII/٥ تقرير عن صور بقلم الرائد ج. ب. ميرفي.، المساعد الهندي، الوكيل السياسي، مسقط. ١٠-١٠-١٩٢٨". [و‎‎١‎٢‎٨] (٣٠٨/٢٦٦)

seen.
- • + r ,t ^ n f* humanity could not be Been*
and degrading spectacle oi nun-.u. y
while the foulness of the hho- -as such that the s,ilors
could hardly endure it. "Thentthe slaves ere transferred
to the Vulture the poor wretched creatures -ere so dread
fully emaciated and -eaic, that mny had to be carried on
board and lifted for every movement. He- it -o.s that so
many survived such hardships -as a -onder to all...But
• ,w. -f r-vupltv of the Arabs
perhaps the most atrocious piece 01 cruel „
was heard afterwards from the slaves themselves; vis.
that at the first discovery of small-pox anon, them by
the Arabs, all the affected slaves -ere at once thro-n
overboard, and this was continued day by day until, they
said, forty had perished in this manner."
ln 1875 K.: .S. London was stationed at Zanzibar
for ten years and during that period the wholesale traffi
was for the time being suppressed. But .laves still
arrived in the Persian Gulf in small lots and dealers
nad begun to conceal their operations by use of the
French flag which secured them against search by British
vessels. In the eighties there was a recrudescence of the
trade o-ing to the withdrawal of H.H.3. London from
Zanzibar.
Inquiry showed that slaves were brought to Sur
. j. 4 -d. tiot 1 , riosi of ’^hich fl^
in vessels belonging to that port,
, ™ v ,„ „ laves were ordinarily landed at Sur
French colours. Ine slaves
itself but the owners of the vessels had accomplices at
H,. el - fc „d and .U«r ..lao.n, and -n.n BrUi.h or„i«n,
M) 1 ,,.,.d.«n 3 received -.»»» and landed .»•» — 11
,. , c.tovpr were marched in gangs
places nearby, -hence tne Scc.veo e.e
. . +v ,„ interior behind Sur is not
to Sur. The demand m the mte-ior
i.-roat for the system of irrigation in laalan and Sharhi-
d„« not d,»nd slave »• ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية
to the Bat inch
slaves are re-exported m small vessels to^
• • -tion is mostly from -ells and -here some of
nrhere irrigation is mu - v „
rptained. The balance is distributed from the Ba
them are retameu.
coast by land. At this time the