HOBRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 626, 21 June 1876, Page 3

HOBRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

The Briton, screw corvette, Captain Lindcsay Rrine, which arrived home recently ?to be paid off, was commissioned on the 28th November, 1871, at Shecrness. A correspondent of the Portsmouth 'limes gives an account of her operations on the East Coast of Africa in the suppression of the slave trade. Some of the boats with their crews were detached at various times from 30 to SO days. Twelve slave dhows were captured by her boats, and nearly 220 slaves rescued from bondage. One dhow contained 122 men, women, and children of all ages, the majority being children of from four to fourteen years of age. They were in a terrible condition, their bones protruding, and being in a most famished and disgusting state, rendering it incredible to think they were human beings endowed with reason at all. Two hundred had starved ten days before the boats captured her, hut seventyeight had died from starvation on the passage, and had been thrown overboard like dogs. The Briton’s men gave the captain of the dhow four dozen with a good rope’s end for striking a slave after they captured the vessel, and on sighting the ship he Jumped overboard and was drowned, probably fearing a repetition of the wholesome lesson. This it a slight idea of the sufferings the Briton, in her cruise, saw on the coast. During her cruise on the coast of Africa the boats attacked and destroyed the slave trading village of Kionga, where the inhabitants had murdered a sub-lieutenant of the Daphne in a most treacherous manner, coming behind him whilst seated in the chief’s tent, driving a steel-headed spear through his back, and hacking him with swords till dead.