, 1873-05-24

boat, or II any one OF his men came near
to help him. The ruse was effectual, and
between Campbell and Reed the chief was
marched to the boat, singing out to his
men-some hundred or two-not to ap-
proach him or he would be killed. The
book is full of strange adventure by sea
and land, and is valuable for the intorma-
ton it conveys of the localities in which
the slave trade is carried on. The follow
ing thrilling incident will give our readers
an idea of the horrors of this trade ION
the afternoon of the 28th of the same
month a dhow appeared coming from the
southwark, so we Immediately weighed
and steamed towards her. It may here be
remarked that owing to the strong current
from the south and light winds, the dhows,
which are never calculated to sail on a
wind, have no chance of escape from a YES
sci north of them. On nearing this dhow,
which was running up towards Us, close,
IN shore, she put her helm up
and ran through the breakers on to
the beach, becoming a complete wreck in q
few minutes. We were close to her,
though outside the breakers, and in time to
see a crowd of unfortunate slaves struggling
through the water from the ship to the
shore. Many Of them were, no doubt,
drowned in the attempt, and others escaped
up the hill before our boat could get near
the shore. 1t was a question if the danger
was not too great to risk the surf in the
attemp TO rescue any of them. We lower
ed the life-boat Zone of Whites fve-oared),
Mr.. Breen, midshipman, and Richards,
carpenter, slipping down the l%lfe-lInes in
to the boat with me, and we showed off.
[ intended, if the bar appeared too dan
gerous to cross, not to risk the lives of the
crew; and [ confess, after my experience,
| never would allow a boat to attempt it
again on this part of the coast it did not
look so bad outside. We gave way, and
at this time we could see many of the
slaves on the beach and in the water.
Suddenly we found ourselves amongst the
breakers. A heavy sea struck us abaft,
and washed clean over the boat from stem
to stern, and she must have preached to if
it had not been for the weight of two of
us on the yoKe-line. Then another sea
struck us, and then another, washing over
the whole length of the boat and every one
in it; but, owing to her admirable con-
structiOn, the seas went out over the bows
leaving only a few inches of water in her.
In a few minutes we were over the bar, and
inside it was comparatively smooth, But
how was it possible ever to get out again {?
was the first thought that struck me, as
l never saw worse-lookiDg breakers, not
even at Buffalo Mouth or Algoa Bay
They extended the whole length of the
coast for many miles, and from the inside
we saw what they really were. When
on shore, we found we were too late to
rescue many of the slaves; we, however,
found seven little wretched children from
five to eight years of age, who were una
BILE from weakness to crawl away into
the bush. One or two of them were
doubled up with their knees against their
faces In the position, they told US after
wards, that they had been in for many days,
and they were a week on board before they
could stretch out their legs. There was
a woman also there who was unable to
get her child away with her. She came
down to the boat, but while we were get
ting the children into it she disappeared.
We at last got the seven little ones on
board, and were showing off, when about
twenty of the natives (Somallies) came
down waving spears and frelocks. When
within about a couple of hundred yards I
fired a rifle so as to strike the ground about
twenty yards ahead of them. AS I fred