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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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236 DIIOW-CHASING.<br />

tendant vices <strong>The</strong> slaver <strong>in</strong> these dismal<br />

mangrove swamps leads a life of <strong>in</strong>cessant<br />

terror, lest he should be overpowered by those<br />

under him He is alone with his conscience,<br />

far from other white men, ardent spirits<br />

and debauchery cannot keep the spectre long<br />

from his m<strong>in</strong>d, his plan is to rule by <strong>in</strong>timidation,<br />

nor will the death of a refractory slave<br />

here and there suffice to establish the fear he<br />

reckons on as his best defence aga<strong>in</strong>st outbreaks.<br />

Mutilation, such as cutt<strong>in</strong>g off a right<br />

ear, or lips, is<br />

amongst the m<strong>in</strong>or punishments<br />

<strong>in</strong> the code of severe penalties, and <strong>in</strong> special<br />

modes of death, the horrors perpetrated on the<br />

wi^etched<br />

slaves, and on the women especially,<br />

leave it<br />

very hard to believe that the <strong>in</strong>genuity<br />

of such men is a whit beh<strong>in</strong>d the cruelty of<br />

Satan. To detail th<strong>in</strong>gs that have come to my<br />

knowledge, would make the reader sick at<br />

heart, wearied to th<strong>in</strong>k there could be such a<br />

chapter of human agony and torture upon this<br />

earth of ours."<br />

It would be useless to add anyth<strong>in</strong>g to the<br />

above statement, which is true <strong>in</strong> every respect

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