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phagism, appeared amongst them. A single Dau 

 (Dow) belonging to the late Prince Khalid lost 

 when rnnning a course 500 slaves by sickness, 

 and by the falling of the pont-flottant or flying- 

 deck — many a desperate naval action could not 

 show such a butcher's bill. A certain Charles 



L , a kiln- dried Mauritius man, crucified 



seven negroes in terrorem : two were fastened 

 outside the ship, the others were nailed by the 

 feet to the deck, and by the hands to capstan 

 bars, lashed across the masts. With a lighted 

 tar-barrel in an empty boat he nearly caused the 

 loss of an English cruiser, and when she was 

 w T ell on the reef he let off rockets and saluted 

 her. Another man, a Spaniard, finding his ven- 

 tures likely to die of dysentery, sewed them up 

 before he sent them to the bazar; this slaver 

 made an act of contrition before he died, and 

 severely blamed his bowie-knife. Sensational 

 paragraphs, however, are not w r anted by those to 

 w r hom the subject is familiar, and they are likely 

 to mislead the many who are not. I shall return 

 to the subject of slavery in another chapter. 



Thence we entered the Malagash Quarter, 

 where the land belongs chiefly to Say y id Sulay- 

 man bin Hamed, a former Governor of Zan- 

 zibar; he is said to be so wealthy that he 



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