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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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THE CRUISE OF THE " DAPHNE." 205<br />

the cutter's crew board<strong>in</strong>g, and surrendered the<br />

dliow.<br />

She appeared to belong to some of the<br />

tribes on the Somallie coast, hav<strong>in</strong>g no papers,<br />

and sixty negroes crowded on her deck. Of<br />

these there were about a dozen Somallies as<br />

merchant passengers—a tribe seldom made<br />

slaves of by the Arabs ow<strong>in</strong>g to their warlike<br />

character; the rema<strong>in</strong>der of the negroes were<br />

probably owned by these, or the negado (i. e.<br />

capta<strong>in</strong>), but from the fear they stood <strong>in</strong> of their<br />

owners, we could get <strong>in</strong>formation only from one<br />

woman and two children.<br />

Her story was that<br />

her husband had lately died, and that his<br />

brother was tak<strong>in</strong>g her across to Maculla to sell<br />

her to pay his debts.<br />

<strong>The</strong> stories of the two children were that they<br />

were kidnapped by the capta<strong>in</strong> about a month<br />

previously on the coast.<br />

AVe towed these vessels to Aden for<br />

condemnation.<br />

4<br />

In the court the woman, apparently from fear<br />

of the negoda who was present, altered her<br />

story, and said that she was go<strong>in</strong>g to Maculla<br />

because her husband was dead, but immediately

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