40 Wanderings in Eastern Africa, 
The mass of the population is composed entirely of 
slaves. These wretched people are brought from all 
parts of the eastern half of Africa. At Zanzibar you 
may find the representatives of almost all the tribes 
of this section of the continent — men and women 
who have been bought and sold, and who are being 
ground to dust, in order to supply bread to the more 
powerful few, who are too idle to work, and who see 
no horror in feasting upon the blood, bones, sinews, 
and flesh of their fellow-creatures. 
The whole country between Kiloa and the Nyassa, 
between Zanzibar and the Tanganika, between Mom- 
basa and the Victoria Nyanza, is drawn upon to 
supply, to fill up, and to perpetuate this shocking 
community of slaves. Viewed aright it is a terrible 
sight. Yet the world has been looking upon it calmly. 
It is dreadful to think that even Englishmen become 
accustomed to it, some not only to tolerate it, but to 
treat it flippantly, and even to defend it. Yet such 
has been the case, naturally perhaps, with those who 
are constantly living among it ; for there is something 
about it which in time really petrefies the soul, and 
hardens all the feeling. 
Europeans are not in great force at Zanzibar. 
English, or rather Scotch, French, Germans, and 
Americans, there may be some sixty or seventy 
individuals altogether. There are also, if I may 
mention them in such honourable company, a 
few half-caste Portuguese, from Goa in Western 
India. 
The Europeans have been the making of Zanzibar, 
and were they withdrawn the city would collapse. 
They are large employers of labour, though the 
