The English Sailor

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 70, 21 November 1885, Page 3

The English Sailor

c The British tar can't be ver** n degenerate, despite the demoralising d effect of ironclads and 100-ton guns i when such feats have still to be fe* i- corded as the following : — The filingn fisher is a vessel on the East Indie* c station, where she is engaged in th* a prevention of the slave trade. .While s the steam cutter was absent recently foi r coaling purposes, leaving only on« c seaman and an interpreter on board, a .t slave dhow hove in sight; and imaginy ihg the course to be clear, she dropped i anchor. The interpreter and the seay jnan, the latter being hidden from s view, put off in ah old canoe, and c were -greeted with very hostile demonit strations by the Arabs, who pointed l their guns and flourished their swords - at the approaching canoe, but its > occupants succeeded in driving five of ) the Arabs overboard, and on reaching . the shore they disappeared in tho > bush. Then the seaman, who was all r the time exposed to the Arab fire, shot f at and killed the captain of the dhow, t and at once took possession of a 57-ton I vessel, which was crowded with slaves. I The dhow was condemned, the slaves E liberated, and the Court, which after- , wards investigated the circumstances, L held that the Aran's death was perL fectly justifiable.