504 Wanderings in Eastern Africa. 
sticks of " mtogue/' as tough and supple as a piece of 
gutta-percha, they had been exercising all their mus- 
cular power in beating that wretched man, one by one 
parading up and dow^n before the panting man, and 
carrying out the programme thus : ^'Son of a dog! etc., 
etc., behold this stick, how lithe and tough ; just the 
thing for thy back, — I'll teach you ! Take that, that, 
and that! It smarts does it.^ Good, you shall have 
more by-and-by ; but I must breathe." Moved by 
the cruel scene, we interceded for the poor man, and 
he was for the time released ; but, as we afterwards 
learned, w^e had no sooner left the town than he was 
rebound and flogged to death ! It should be observed 
that the man had been guilty of some petty theft. 
Such is slavery in East Africa. 
It must be a source of great satisfaction to all 
interested in the welfare of Africa, that England has 
done what she has to limit and suppress the abomi- 
nation. The new treaty stipulates, first, that the 
traffic by sea shall entirely cease ; second, that the 
pubhc markets in the dominion of Sayid Barghash 
be entirely closed ; third, that the Sultan engages to 
protect all liberated slaves ; and, fourth, that all 
Indian, British protected subjects be prohibited from 
possessing slaves. To secure the object of the treaty, 
the annual tribute of $40,000 per annum, due from 
Zanzibar to Muscat, is to be remitted, England en- 
gaging to pay the amount while the Sultan of Zanzi- 
bar keeps the treaty ; the number of our cruisers is to 
be increased ; and, by way of encouraging legitimate 
commerce, England is taxing herself to the extent of 
;^"26,ooo per annum, in order to subsidize the Zanzibar 
mails; that is to say, if the famous "Zanzibar Con- 
