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' FREE emigration: 



The next process is either the short voyage in 

 Daus or native craft to Zanzibar Island, or the 

 long passage to Turkish Arabia, the Red Sea, 

 Persia, and the N. Zangian coast. At present 

 they make some half the journey without being 

 molested by British cruisers, but this portion of 

 the treaty will probably be modified. Slaves 

 liberated from the Daus were — and are still — 

 taken to the Seychelles, a dependency of the 

 Mauritius, or to Aden and Bombay, at a heavy 

 cost to the Imperial Exchequer. The mortality of 

 the captives on the march, throughout Africa as far 

 as my knowledge extends, is immensely overrated, 

 except in case of cholera or small-pox, at 1 : 5, 

 or even 1 : 10. The fact is, that the mortality on 

 the Kilwa-Nyassa line is excessive, because the 

 negroes fight, and the ^ chattels' run away. Where 

 I am personally acquainted with it the loss of 

 slaves on the down-march does not exceed that 

 of freemen, and the latter when poor have less 

 chance than the valuable property. 



In the outer roads, at the time of our visit, 

 lay a Trench six-gun schooner, TEstafette, with 

 loose rigging, no flamme, and only one white 

 face visible on deck. ' Frenchman good only to 

 steal men/ said the people of Kilwa : the vessel, 

 however, was escorting a ' free emigrant ship,' 



