National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-02-28
The POlyneslan Slave Trade.

4 north of New llebrides, 10 he received
's into my family. They gave THEN
-, names M lubbock al Stor johnny
- Yin, Mard, and Uaris. The first has q
- considerable acquaintance with the
- Samoa dialect. He is the youngest Of
/, the party, being, perhaps, about twenty
~ five. The others are somewhat older.
e They informed me that their group and
~ its neighborhood contains, besides
, others, the following islands, viz
y Montlap, Amota, Famolap or Murlap,
q Ayab or Away, Santa Marie, Espirtu
Santo, Malicolo, Fate and Iana. The
name of their own island is Montilap,
{ and of the village to which they belong
u Ladlap. Their tale is as follows A
: twe-masted vessel named the Luseno
Lucy) cast her anchor off MontilGp.
Twenty-Five men went off to her to bar
,, ter. They were welcomed on board
and treated very kindly, and toward
evening they We're asked if they would
,, like to sleep ON board. This offer they
gladly ted, but, to their surprise,
the next ming they found the vessel
under san. At this time tht found
there We're on board, besides them
selves, thirty-seycn natives of Malicolo,
but they did not know how they were
obtained. The vessel next went to
Ayab, where she lay off and ON, and
sent boat on shore TO invite the ma
tives on board to trade none Of the
boats crew could speak the language
OF Ayab, but they made their desire
known by showing fowls, vans, etc.
and pointing to the ship. The men /
Hooked on board, and twenty-five were
10 Al
TUNED to shore, where five more were
! captured and carried oifpcr force, max
! ing total of thirty men from that
island. some of these were tied or put
IN lroys having manifested II DISPOSE
tion to swim ashore. After leaving
Ayab the vessel fell in with canoe
having two natives of Amota in her.
These were dragged ont Of the canoe
and taken on board The canoe was
sent adrilt. At Murilap the boat land
ed, and the crew persuaded woman to
come on board to get something to eat
and they seized Il man and boy and
carried them off by force.
AT Santa Marie, five more men were
obtained. They were in three canoes.
The boat pursued them: they were
dragged into the boat, and their canoes 4;
turned adrift The vessel then pro-
ceeded to Tana, where the natives stole :,
a chest or box belonging to the vessel !,
and retaliation for this the crew seized y
and carried off one native. Thus they :,
had cargo of l03 natives of the differ !,
ent Islands above named. With these ~
they set sail for Tahiti. They were IL
Wen led on the passage. One man, ;,
however native of Avab. dislikel the q
food, and cried and made much noise. ~
The mate had him tied hands and feet y;
Id thrown overheard. Another be- t.
came i'll and died ; he. too, was of course -
thrown overheard They were taken to o.
cotton plantation at Tahiti The YES 9,
sci anchored near the house of the own Al;;
or OF the plantation. 1t was long way ~ ~
rom papecte These men remained, =, =,
hey say, working on the plantation =, -,
twenty months. During that time .;
.wenty of their own people died. twenty u
seven Of the Malolo men, twentvsix Of "
hose from Avab, and all the Others. 81
Except the woman and the native of u" a.
lana. Thus eighty-three died at Ia =, -,
M, one on the passage, and one muir -,
tered, leaving III less than two years, r,
MY eighteen survivors out of the 1O3. H. ~,
5ysentely was the principal cause of ~ ~
herr death. While at Tahiti they aav ~.
hey went to the cotton plantation at o ~,
A. NJ, without any breakfast, worked +,
III IL at noon, and then rested till about ~,
, but had nothing whatever to eat a. 49,
rom about 3 o'clock they worked - -
gam TIL q. They then went to their g.,
uarters, and had their first and only AZ. AZ.
zeal. Trey Were fed on Indian corn :; W.
nd bananas, on alternate evenings. 80. ~
o each man was served out one cob or r."
cad of corn on the corn days, and the ON 81,
ext evening each man received two or 40
lree bananas, and nothing more till O. e.
he next evening. no rice no biscuit. a ,ie'
meat or fish. On Sundays they did ss
work. but had better food. A din a.. az
,r was given them at noon, consisting . ,nt
rice and fish, and rice and salt beef W, WI
alternate Sundays. They spent s eloi
ost of the day in sleep. No attempt l rwi'
rs made to teach them to read nor ~ = ii'
rs any kind of worship conducted. i ia.t
leir pay consisted of clothe s, at the i ro'''
te OF about two shillings worth per i'io'
)nth. Those who were idle were pun
ied by being tied, hands ana feet
{ht and day, for four or five days at II
lme, with an allowance of only one the
1
~ III Two days. Sometimes their Stat
mas were tied around post behind 173-
IA. u "ii'' SoHictlhles they We're tied be- MOI
e them, but in such way that thew con,
Mi not lie down, and had to sleep in boIf
lttlng posture, reeling to one side or tain
ier. The five of their own party who con,
'ylved these twenty months of hard tbrd
p, concluded it would be better to boIf
," 'f ,Ti 'ii"i 10 continue there any deer
1ortunity and escaped in boat which royo
been IN search of food and was at GROW
O. H. ~ "'i% only Ten cocoa good
. fru H""' = f'' TWO lor each crow
d. lhey were two months in com wav
from Tahiti to Samoa, which was wonl
first land they had sighted since orr
ing the former place. They were On +
e down most of the time. and did in III
ieei hungry. The one meal a day - -
EN- seems to have prepared them for NOT q
tulai abstinence still. it was too eyis+
N tor one of them, who died of the been
-hern end OF Manua. The other Ties !
were kindly received and cared for and ;
ne christian teachers and people of dpvel
island OF Tain, or Alanuatele. They idana
alned ten months ON Manua. and l,rn,
came to Iutulla they were three
tbs longer with some of the natives
he east end of the island, and then We
e the application above referred to. to do
n the above particulars | gather do 1t
it is about three wears since ,bex, to, de
deported from their island home. great
OF them knew good Bishop Pate earne
and had seen Bishop Selwvn. He any
' the Undine and the Southern claim