ZANZIBAR. 21 hides, indiarubber, and tortoiseshell. The total value of the imports in 1871 was 429,053, while the value of the exports in the same year amounted to 495,789. There is also a small amount of trade carried on with India and the Persian Gulf, by means of native vessels called Bagala and Bedeni. These are two-masted craft owned generally and manned by Arabs ; they come down to Zanzibar with the northeast monsoon, making the return voyage with the south-westerly one.

A large local traffic is carried on between the island of Zanzibar and the mainland, the principal centres being Dar-es-Salaam, Bagamoyo, Sadaani, Whindi, Lamu, Tanga and Mombasa. The whole of this trade is conducted by means of native craft, all the ivory, copal gum, orchilla weed and indiarubber being thus brought to the island for shipment to Europe.

There is, too, in spite of all precautions, a considerable trade still carried on in slaves. There is little doubt but that a large number of regular slave cargoes are run by the Arab slave-dealers in spite of the vigilance of the officers of H.M.S.

London, and the various gunboats which are employed to stop this nefarious traffic. I believe, however, that many more are smuggled over in the trading dhows (of which a great number run daily between the mainland and Zanzibar) under the