River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-06-23
A TERRIBLE STORY.
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Capture Of an East African SLAYER.
A correspondent, writing 10 the Pail
Mall Gazette from Zanzibar, on March
%, says:
Z" The Daphne has lust arrived from
madagascar, having had the good luck
To capture the finest prize that has been
made forseveral years. II appears that
ON March 10, while cruising in the
vicinity of Cape st. Andrew, she sight
Ell dhow standing in for the land, and
after an exciting chase of more than
three hours, she succeeded in bringing
her to, but not until eight or ten shots
had been fired, the last two of which
struck the water within few feet of
her. She proved to be large dhow of
upward OF POO tons, and at the time of
capture had 80 slaves and forty others.
consisting of the guard, crew and slave.
owners, on board She had sailed
trom town within twenty miles of
Mozambique eight days previously,
and, having lost thirty slaves on the
passage, she must have no less than
500 souls ON board mt the time of her
departure. II is easy to see that,
though large dhow, the crowdino
must have been terrible, and in conse.
quence, the sutlerings Of the wretched
victims is indescvibable. 1t is said
that papers found in the dhow prove
that the slaves were destined for Nos
Beh, where, under the designation OF
engages, they would be employed by
the French sugar planters ON that al.
most the-latest French annexation, and
learn not only the meaning but the
beauty of the legend, 'Iiberte, Egalite,
E'ratcrnite >"
Another Zanzibar correspondent,
writing to the same paper ON the I'd of
April, sends an account of this capture,
which only differs from the foregoing
IN few minor points. He goes ON to
say:
But what seems SO extraordinary is
that, after making SO fine seizure, she
did not at once proceed to Seychelles
and land the poor emaciated wretches,
where everything is always in readi-
ness for their reception: moreover,
from the place of capture to the Sey-
chelles was only five days run in the
southeast trade, with fine weather all
the way. | have it on good authority
that, had this course been adopted not
more than five slaves would have died.
Instead of this, Notwithstanding that il
was VIGOROUSLY the bad weather season,
the Daphne first of all went 30 Mozam-
bique aud had bad weather all the way,
but still only one slave was lost. Thou
from Mozambique she returned to
Madagascar, aud on the way encoun-
tered q cyclone. The result may be
guessed /; more than 200 slaves, naked.
weak and i'll, unused to the sea, were
forced TO rough it out ON the upper
deck through the storm and pitlless
rain. ] would willingly draw veil
over the rest of this sad story, but pub
licity is the only safeguard against such
Il mistake being allowed to take place a
second time. / have tried to get at the
exact number, but have not been quite
successful. However, | am on the
right side when tell you that one
tenth of the whole were dead within
four days of the cyclone--they ut any
rate have been emancIpated. Twenty
have died since that SO | fancy the
survivors would tell strange story of
capture and recapturo il ever they re-
turned to their native country.