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Vice-Consul Haggard’s Report

Posted in Imperial History, tagged , , , , , , , on 21/12/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Sir John Kirk, the British Consul to the Sultan of Zanzibar, received in 1884 a report from his Vice-Consul John G. (Jack) Haggard. The brother of Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard  had summarised his adventurous journey from his station on the Island of Lamu to the rebellious Simba, Sultan of Witu. As the Vice-Consul’s more [...]

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The Arab Slave Trade in East Africa

Posted in Imperial History, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 27/08/2010 | Leave a Comment »

They account for the diminution in their numbers by epidemics of small-pox, by the recurrence of famine or war, and will related most circumstantially how such and such men were cut up in the Suk or Nandi country. Meanwhile the other portion of the caravan, the remunerative portion, marches by unfrequented roads to the coast, [...]

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