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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 north-

east 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 con-

siderable 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