■^ The Last Phase of the Slave Trade 



the Gallinhas beach and the islands of the lagoon, these men, 

 trained to use telescopes, watched the horizon for the arrival 

 of British cruisers. By their signals they repeatedly saved 

 incoming or outgoing ships engaged in the slave trade from 



so. A " KKUMAN " FKOM NEAR BASA (bASA IKlUt) 



detection and capture by the British. Pedro Blanco derived 

 most of his slaves from the countries of what is now the 

 eastern part of the Sierra Leone Protectorate. But Canot, after 

 being taken into his employ, was detailed to establish a vigorous 

 slave trade at " New Sesters," a place called nowadays New 



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