This good work has really been accomplished by Great Britain, for
Zanzibar has been under the protection of England since the year 1890.

The country ruled by the Sultan of Zanzibar is on the East Coast of
Africa, and consists of the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar, and a strip
of the coast, which runs from the commencement of the Mozambique Channel
to Somali Land. The Mozambique Channel is the arm of the Indian Ocean
which separates Madagascar from the mainland of Africa.

The slave trade has been carried on very extensively in Zanzibar, and
despite the attempts of the British to prevent it ships full of natives
have been brought from the mainland to be sold into slavery in Zanzibar.

These slaves were employed in the cultivation of cloves; Zanzibar grows
four-fifths of the clove crop of the world.

The inhabitants of the islands are principally Arabs, a race of men who
have always been prominent in the slave trade since first the shameful
traffic in human flesh began.

These Arabs have pleaded that the freeing of the slaves in Zanzibar will
destroy the clove industry, and that their trade will be ruined.

After carefully looking into the matter, the British decided that the
industry of the islands would not in any way be injured, and informed
the Sultan that they wished him to free the slaves.

The British power in Zanzibar is very strong, and while the Sultan is
the ruler of his kingdom in name, in actual fact he has to obey the