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 ADMINISTRATION OF ZANZIBAB. 386 Arabs, who collect the taxes and keep watch over the traders to prevent the traffic in slaves, now legally suppressed. At least this is one of the functions assigned to these officials by the terms of the treaties concluded with the English before the recent changes. But the German commissioners have practically abrogated those treaties and have hitherto left the slave-dealers full freedom of action.* The sultan's army, imder the command of a European, consists of about three thousand well- disciplined men, either Swaheli or natives of the Comoro Islands. Formerly the army was recruited chiefly amongst the Beluchis of Beluchistan.
 * DetttMcne EoloniaUZeitung, October let, 1887.