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Capture of an Arab slave dhow by HMS “Penguin” off the Gulf of Aden.
“HMS Penguin in the Gulf of Aden” for the Illustrated London News 50 (19 June 1867): 648
The screw gun-vessel Penguin, under Lieutenant Commander E. St. John Garforth, on the East Indies station, has captured nine Arab dhows engaged in the slave trade of the east coast of Africa, during the last three years, and liberated a great number of slaves. On May 20, having returned from the Persian Gulf, where she had been occupied about a month, she observed off the Gulf of Aden a dhow, to which she gave chase, and, having captured her, found on board 216 slaves, chiefly boys and girls, closely stowed, and all bound for Muscat, in the Persian Gulf. The dhow was hauled alongside, and, the slaves having been taken on board the Penguin, the dhow was then cast adrift and a crew sent to cut away her masts and rigging; they finally set fire to her, as shown in our Illustration, from a sketch taken at the time. The Arab captain, although apparently dying from fever when he first came on board, quickly rallied under simple treatment, for which he was very thankful and seemed to appreciate a kindness which he had very likely least expected to receive at the hands of his captors. The next day he and his orew (about fifteen) were put on board another dhow boarded by the Penguin, which proved to be a legal trader bound for Maculla, in the Gulf. The liberated slaves while on board the Penguin were well-behaved and kind to each other, sharing everything which was given them. Some of the youngest were much emaciated, but most were healthy and in good condition. They were conveyed to Aden — a passage of three days — and there disembarked. This is the largest number of slaves liberated by the Penguin out of any one of the dhows she has taken on this station.
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An indian traditional boat in northeastern wind. The Bay of Bombay in the background.
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Title: Slave-catching in the Indian Ocean
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Colomb, Philip Howard, 1831-1899
Subjects: Slave-trade
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ing, and relieve omselves fromconsidering a question to which no one has yet venturedto assign a fair side. In only one thing should thecaptured negro be placed differently as regards hisgovernment from the man-of-wars man. The latterstarts fit for freedom; the former should prove hisfitness and his desire, by purchasing it, before it canbecome his. But even while I write, I know we shall not look atmatters in this way; the very most we shall be preparedfor is the continuance of the present system in a newlocality. And then I sometimes think that the des-tinies of the East African negro will not, after all, comeinto our hands. There has grown up in the centre of Europe a powerwhose aims are wider and more distinct than those ofEngland. She has never shown herself frightened at aname, nor does she hesitate about embarking on acourse of policy whose end may be centuries distant.That power is second to us in material interest in EastAfrica. Already, we are told, she is looking thither as
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OCEAN Slave trading waters of the 40 longttide East from Ga:eenwuii_ Edw^* We) ler, Luha Hfid-lion -Squarr Zcnd£<n J^nqrrui^i^ A Cs FINIS. 503 to a field worthy of her enterprise ; it is to be hoped weare either ready to do and dare, or to give place,should the time come, to anyone ready to take up thequestion at the point where we have left it. The termination of my visit to Zanzibar was alsothe end of my slave-catching experiences. Theygrew more sad as time drew on, and I see the changeis visible in what I have written. LONDON : PnlNTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND rAULIAJlENT STllEET 39 Pateenosteb Eow, E.G.LoxDON: November 1872. GENERAL LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED BY Messrs. LOI&MAIS, &KEEI, EEADEE, and DTEE. AuTS, Manttfactuees, &e 13 AsTHONOiiry, Meteohology, Popl^lab GrEOGBAPHY, &C 8 BlOGEAPHICAI, WoEKS 4 Chemistby, Medicine, Suegeey, and the Allied Sciences 11 Ceiticism, Philosophy, Polity, &c.... 5 Pine Aets and Illitsteated Editions 12Hi
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terwards displays. So that we generally understand that the stoppage of food is the simple and only way of dealing discipline to the rescued slave as we find him. We have heard something of late, of the beauty of the East Africans from the Lake District. I cannot doubt that if an average specimen of these Africans could be placed suddenly, just as he or she appears asa rescued slave, plump, well fed and cared for, on a London platform, there would be a cry of What a frightful object! If, however, the audience were prepared beforehand,the object would no longer be frightful but one to be certainly pitied—perhaps admired. No one knows better than the naval officer, how absolutely comparative beauty is. He falls in love with a face in a distant colony, and wonders at himself when he sees the same face in a London drawing-room. Therefore, although we may charge upon some writers a neglect of remembering the English idea of beauty when speaking of the Lake District negro, we must allow for the absence
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J^ m GALLA SLAVES on board HMS Daphne. From a photograph by Capt. Sulivan R.N. 273 of such standard when they write, and the strange sentiment which surrounds the subject. If we take the English ideal of beauty, the Galla slaves exported from Brava, much more nearly approach it than the negro farther south. Burton says that the Galla slaves are a sort of low-class Abyssinian in appearance;he further declares that they fetch low prices, being considered roguish and treacherous. I have no knowledge of the Abyssinian physique,but the few Gallas I had on board were of a much higher type than the more southern negroes, and more-over, according to all appearances, the Arab slave merchant set especial store by them. They certainly held themselves many degrees above their fellow captives—would not eat with them, formed a little clique of their own, and kept altogether aloof from the rest.There was one young girl, tall, slight, and by comparison not ill-formed or favoured, who wore some shreds of a spangled veil about her head. She was quite a lady negress, a
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Slave trade in medieval Africa