Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

THE CRUISE OF THE "DAPHNE." 175
tliougli considered the superior race, resemble
them much in many ways, in intelligence,
warHke propensities, habits, and manner of
living, eating chiefly animal food, often obtained
by hunting ; they were the only tribe that
almost required animal food on board. All
the women were kept on the port side of the
quarter-deck, and those of the Galla tribe,
amounting to about ten or a dozen, located
themselves amidships, between the engineroom
and after-hatchways, where, being the
best-looking ladies, I am bound to say they
received more attention than any of the
others,
in the shape of an occasional basin of soup, or
plate of meat and vegetables,
brought up from
the messes, the sight of which made the other
ebony ladies eye them evidently with envy,
hatred, and malice.
One of the first things, we are told, Adam
did, was to name the animals, and one of the
first things done by us was to name these slaves
on their being received on board, at least the
principal ones in each tribe ; and among the
G alias we had Peggy, Susan, Sally, Sophy,