Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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all tliose who are strong enough to be at all
obstreperous. We liberated a gang of eightyfour
slaves one morning, and within a few miles
of the place where we hberated them we were
shown places in the bush where slaves had
been killed only that morning ; one poor woman
had a child on her back, which she had recently
given birth to, and which she was too weak to
carry farther, and the slave-dealer took it by
the heels and dashed its brains against a tree
another woman was ill herself, and could not
keep in the line, and the slave-dealer dashed
her brains out with the axe, and she was cut
out of the slave thong. They are all united in
a long string, the men being yoked in hea\y
forked sticks, which are kept on their necks
from the time they are captured till the time
they are delivered to the slave shipper, sometimes
for six weeks, and sometimes even three
months at a time."
941. Chairman. ~\
"What is the time generally
occupied in the transit to the coast "— ? "It
varies; the slave gang is made up as the dealers
travel about ; they do not collect all the slaves at
one place and go straight to the coast, the slaves
are marched to and fro in the country, to a chief
here and to another there, wherever the dealers
hear that slaves are to be sold, and then they
are all eventually taken to the coast. The
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