ABSTRACT
There was another question to be considered however; our boat first boarded the dhow inside the ship, and probably within three miles of the land, therefore in Zanzibar waters, which exempted her from capture without the Sultan's permission: it was therefore useless to detain her any longer as there would have been no probability of obtaining a condemnation. On returning to Zanzibar, a few weeks latter, I found the owner had reported the occurrence in a tone of "injured innocence" to the Sultan, who pretended to be very irate about it. But I gave him to understand that I only regretted not having risked detaining her altogether, and taking her into court, as she had too many slaves on board.
