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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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CHAPTER IX.<br />

I<br />

Negro Tribes — Gallas — Nam<strong>in</strong>g the Negroes — Marlborough—Negroes<br />

feed<strong>in</strong>g— Several die— Small-pox<br />

breaks out—Examioatiou of Negroes—<strong>The</strong>ir Stories<br />

—Mary Careesey— First Lieutenant's Employment<br />

puB Patience—Peggy—Native Languages—Arrival<br />

at Seychelles—Put <strong>in</strong> Quarant<strong>in</strong>e-Negroes Landed<br />

— Several marry—Arrival at Bombay.<br />

MUST now give some account of the<br />

slaves themselves, and their lives on board,<br />

&c. Of the three hundred and twenty-two,<br />

there were a hundred and eighteen men, a<br />

hundred and n<strong>in</strong>e women, and n<strong>in</strong>ety-five<br />

children,<br />

<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g thirty-two men and women<br />

from two wrecked dhows, surrendered on<br />

demand by the chief of Brava.<br />

there were eleven different tribes, viz. :<br />

Among these<br />

<strong>The</strong> Galla, an <strong>in</strong>telligent race which the<br />

Arabs do not class with the negroes.

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