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To Sdnga- Tanga and Back . 
where the flag could be raised conspicuously in 
token of no cruiser being near. 
But the glory had departed from Sanga-Tanga 
(Peel-White ? Strip-White ?) ; not a trace of the 
town remained, the barracoons had disappeared, 
and all was innocent as upon the day of its creation. 
A deep silence reigned where the song of joy and 
the shrieks of torture had so often been answered 
by the voice of the forest, and Eternal Nature had 
ceased to be disturbed by the follies and crimes of 
man. 
Sanga-Tanga was burned down, after the fashion 
of these people, when Mbango, whom Europeans 
called “ Pass-all,” King of the Urungu, who ex¬ 
tend up the right bank of the Ogobe, passed away 
from the sublunary world. King Pass-all had com¬ 
pleted his education in Portugal : a negro never 
attains his highest potential point of villany with¬ 
out a tour through Europe; and thus he rose to 
be the greatest slave-dealer in this slave-dealing 
scrap of the coast. In early life he protected the 
Spanish pirates who fled to Cape Lopez, after 
plundering the American brig “ Mexico they 
were at last forcibly captured by Captain (the late 
Admiral) Trotter, R.N.; passed over to the United 
States, and finally hanged at Boston, during the 
Presidency of General Jackson. Towards the 
end of his life he became paralytic, like King 
Pepple of Bonny, and dangerous to the whites as 
