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658 SLAVE TRADE.

Translation of a Letter without date, but addressed in September 1822
by Ilis Highness the Imaum of Musk at to His Excellency Sir
Robert T. Farquhar, Governor of the Isle of France.
If any ships belonging to my people carry slaves to Christian coun­
tries, I have fully permitted you to order your vessels to seize any Arab
vessels having a cargo of slaves beyond Madagascar, after four months
after date of this letter.

Translation of a Letter addressed on the same occasion by Ilis High­
ness the Imaum of Muskat to the Governor of Zanzibar, fyc.
Whoever receives this letter at Zanzibar, at Quiloa, or any parts
within my dominion, it is to let you know, that I have permitted my
friends the English to keep an Agent in any part of my country they
may choose, and you are to give a house to the English Agent, and
wherever he may stay you are to pay him great respect, and no one
must refuse to receive the Agent.

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On the Ylth December 3839, His Highness the Imaum of Muskat
consented to the three following Articles being added to the fore­
going Treaty for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, concluded
by His Highness with Captain Moresby in September 1822.
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I agree that the following Articles be added to the above Treaty,
concluded by Captain Moresby on the aforesaid date.
Article I.
That the Government cruisers, whenever they may meet vessels
belonging to my subjects beyond a direct line drawn from Cape Delgado,
passing two degrees seaward of the island of Socotra, and ending at
Pussem, and shall suspect that such vessel is engaged in the Slave
Trade, the said cruisers are permitted to detain and search it.

Article II.
Should it on examination be found that any vessel belonging to my
subjects is carrying slaves, whether men, women, or children, for sale,
beyond the aforesaid line, then the Government cruisers shall seize and
confiscate such vessel and her cargo. But if the said vessel shall pass
beyond the aforesaid line, owing to stress of weather, or other case of
necessity, not under control, then she shall not be seized. . 5

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