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Slavs vessels captured. FuOITIVE SLAVES
Year. Slavesrecovered.
No. of slaves
By which ship. Action taken. Taking refuge- How dealt with.
found.
«894'95 Nil 50 at Maskat 44 liberated. Of 8 negroes captured from a
S dismissed. vessel wrecked on the south
I left protection of coast of Arabia and enslaved
consulate. by their Bedouin captors, 5
2 at Bushire. t liberated. were rescued as result of ener­
1 restored to local getic action taken by the
authorities. Sultan of Maskat.
2 at Lingah 1 liberated.
1 restored to local
authorities.
1895-96 Nil 30 at Maskat 22 liberated 41 slaves recovered on Pirate
3 dismissed. coast and taken to Bushire
it at Bushire 6 liberated. and liberated.
I b 96-97 t slave vessel seized by 28 74 at .Maskat 70 liberated.
Political Agent, Mas­ 4 dismissed.
kat, in May 1896.
2nd slave vessel by the «4 6 at Jaslt Tele­ Taken to Bushire 3 of Baluch's slaves shipped
Lapsing in May, June graph Station and liberated, at NVadam on the Batineh
x8y0. from Sliar- and sent to Mas­ coast weie rescued, t having
gah. kat at their own made escape at Wadam, and
3rd one by the Sultan 2 desire. two others on the Pirate
in May 1896. coast.
2 vessels filing French *75 Stent £., March 1897, Nos.
colours seized Septem­ 136-139.
ber 1896.
1897-98 43 at Maskat 34 liberated and 3 surviving of the 7 Africans
the rest dismissed. brought from Melinde to
Oman in 1892 released, one
3 at Bushire I liberated. of whom elected to return to
Africa, while the other two
3 on the Sph- All liberated under elected to settle at Maskat.
itiM. Brussels Confer­
ence Act.
5 on the Lap­ Do.
sing.
The chief of Umm-el-Kowein
recovered two slaves imported
there (External A., June 1897,
N01. 43*44)-
1898-99... A pearl fishing I The case brought 14 at Bushire
dhow bound from before the Con­
Khaburah to Bahrein sular Court, 105 at Maskat 89 liberated Feroz-bin-Mobruk already
seized by the Sphinx Maskat. No evi­ liberated, but again enslaved
in June 1898 (Exter­ dence that the 16 left protection by Abdul Rasul of Bandar
nal A., October 1898, Nakhoda knew of the Court. Abbas.
Nos. 1-3). of the slave's
presence when 2 on the Liberated under The boy was set at liberty.
the vessel left Sphinx. the Brussels Con­
Khaburah. He ference Act.
was therefore
acquitted and the
vessel restored
to him. The
slave liberated
and his owner
handed over to
the Sultan for
punishment.
1899-1900 NiL 43 at Maskat 41 liberated.
1 left «f his own
(No slave cruising accord,
under Admiralty or­ t dismissed.
ders).
6 on the Pi­ Liberated.
geon.
t on the Rtd- Do.
bnast. Several slaves re­
ceived manu*
mission at Bu­
shire.
1900-01 Do. do. 53 at Maskat 3 left.
4 dismissed.
46 manumitted.
(7 sent to Zanzibar).