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THE COPAL TRADE. 



1833 contains no sucli clause, but the Prencli 

 treaty, concluded in 1844, thus modifies (Art. xi.) 

 the prohibition to trafiic which appears in the 

 Enrfish treaty. ' But if the Ensrlish or Ameri- 

 cans or any other Christian nation should carry 

 goods, the Erench shall in like manner be at 

 liberty to do so.' With the Arabs such matters 

 are easily managed for the benefit of both parties : 

 when, howeyer, European jealousies complicate 

 the affair there is little hope of their being 

 brought to a successful issue. 



Moreover, Europeans cannot do manual 

 labour upon the Zanzibarian seaboard. Hindu- 

 stanis would fear to face, not only the fever, but 

 the savage. A gang of 500 negroes from Kilwa 

 or Arabs from Hazramaut taught to use moder- 

 ate-sized mattocks, not the child's plaything 

 now in fashion, well paid and kept at regular 

 work, would soon, by their own exertions and by 

 example, stimulate the copal digging into live- 

 liness or break up the unnatural monopoly. But 

 the Sayyid's government would object to such 

 occupation of its territory ; the Wasawahili 

 Diwans would require propitiation ; and in view 

 of desertion, it would be necessary to make speci- 

 fic contracts with the chiefs of tribes, villages, 

 and harbours. It is to be feared that such an 



