CHAPTER XXV. 
EAST AFRICAN SLAVERY. 
DURING the past year the attention of the British 
public has been called to the question of East 
African slavery, and the system was found to have 
attained such a frightful magnitude, and to be attended 
with such horrors, that a large amount of indignation 
was excited in regard to it, and both platform and 
press denounced it in the strongest terms. True to 
her character, policy, and traditions, England no 
sooner saw the evil, than she began to bestir herself, 
and to set about bringing it to an end. An able, 
sympathetic, uncompromising foe to the system was 
appointed to investigate the matter, and to deal its 
death-blow. Sir Bartle Frere sailed to the Indian 
Ocean, where the evil prevailed, visited Zanzibar, 
Muscat, and other places engaged in the traffic, and 
negotiated treaties with the Sultans of those places, 
by which those rulers consented to abolish the traffic 
in human flesh. The informationjhat this had been 
accomplished was hailed with delight, a psean of 
triumph rang from one end of England to the other, 
and the people of this country are now congratulating 
themselves that the monster evil is at an end, and 
