Cleared From Havannah As "The Sunny South,"
Professing To Be Destined For Hong-Kong, She Changed Her Name To
The Manuela, And Came Slave-Hunting In These Regions.
The
slaver's crew consisted of a captain, doctor, and several
sailors, mostly Spaniards.
The vessel was well stored with
provisions and medicines; but there was scarcely enough room in
her, though she was said to be only half freighted, for the 544
creatures they were transporting. The next morning, as we
entered Pamoni harbour by an intricate approach to the rich
little island hill Johanna, the slaver, as she followed us,
stranded, and for a while caused considerable alarm to everybody
but her late captain. He thought his luck very bad, after
escaping so often, to be taken thus; for his vessel's power of
sailing were so good, that, had she had the wind in her favour,
the Brisk, even with the assistance of steam, could not have come
up with her. On going on board her, I found the slaves to be
mostly Wahiyow. A few of them were old women, but all the rest
children. They had been captured during wars in their own
country, and sold to Arabs, who brought them to the coast, and
kept them half-starved until the slaver arrived, when they were
shipped in dhows and brought off to the slaver, where, for nearly
a week, whilst the bargains were in progress, they were kept
entirely without food. It was no wonder then, every man of the
Brisk who first looked upon them did so with a feeling of
loathing and abhorrence of such a trade.
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