St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-19

prize. We closed the distance between
us, and [ was one of the party that
boarded her in the next boat. A prize
crew was put on board, removing her
crew. as prisoners, to our own ship. We
quickly had a hawser over over our
stern, and gayly headed for Key West,
about 500 miles distant, with the prize
in tow. Key West was our headquart-
ers. and we had to go there for coal.
water and sea stores at stated intervals.
Scenes on the SLAYER.
When reached the SLAYER our pris-
oners had not ceased to curse their luck
IN sweet mixture of French, Spanish
and English. In less than eight hours,
had they been unmOleSted, they eX-
pected to secure about 100000 as the
remuneration for their cargo. The
wild excitement among the slaves was
most ludicrous. dancing, singing and
shouting in the most violent man
ner. One unfortunate and over
excited full grown man. seeing
bright copper kettle on the gallery that
looked to him like helmet, seized it
hurriedly and put it Oh his head. not no.
ticing about pint of hot water in it.
His shouts of 10y turned to yellS of pain.
Order was restored by making some of
the leading slaves temporary police Off
GERS, and by other sterner means they
were made to settle down SO that our
crew could handle the sails. More
than half the cargo were women
and children. The men were kept
in the forward part separate
from them. Slowing All men and
women in such close quarters without a
stitch of clothing, without anything in
the shape of beds or bedding in vessel
n 0hnrf 70 h,,rf do,
some idea of the horrors of forty-fOur
days transatlantic trip on an African
SLAYER. However, but seven of this lot
shipped in Africa had died. and the re-
mainder appeared in good health. They
were literally fed in groups of about
dozen, each one having rudely carved
wooden spoon with which they dipped
their food from an ordinary-siZed wood
en- bucket. The food consisted of sea
biscuit, boiled beans or rice mixed with
little fat pork. They were always
kept on short allowance of drinking
water. All were sent on deck daily in
patches and washed down with stream
of sea water from the ships hose, soap
and towels being considered superfiu
Gus.
A Little Slaves Gilt Button.
In the excitement one little girl,
ABOUT thirteen years OF age, Win
laughing eye and pleading expression,
caught me by one of tie gilt brass but
tons of my coat and asked for 1t as
plainly as though / understood her Ian
guage. l cut it loose, and having
piece of narrow red tape in my pocket
strung it through the eye and play
fully threw it around her neck. Imme-
diately she became the center of envi-
Gus female eyes as the most fully dressed
OF any in the dusky throng. About a
month after this capture. as we were
again in Key West, went to the barra-
coons, where our people were kindly
looking after this crowd OF unwilling
emigrants. AS l walked through the
hospital with its crudely constructed
hunks of unplaned lumber the
eye Of this youngster recognized
me. Emaciated by disease, |
did not at first recognize her, but
with pleasing smile she reached her
thin hand under the bed clothing and
held up the furnished button by its
faded red tape. She died few days aft
erward with the priced trifie around her
neck. Death carried off great many
of these people before they were re-
turned to Africa and many more died
on the voyage. While the slave trade is
broken up on the west coast of Africa,lt
is still carried on along the Upper Nile
and Oh the east coast.