Identifier: slavecatchingini00co (find matches)
Title: Slave-catching in the Indian Ocean
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Colomb, Philip Howard, 1831-1899
Subjects: Slave-trade
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ards proceeded to put the policy of abusing the plaintiffs attorney into full force. A few days after the receipt of the first letter by the British Consul, a second reached him, containing a full account, but perhaps not a very true one, of the Nymphes visit, and the demand of her Captain for the slaves illegally landed. The letter contained, amongst such irrelevant matter as how the English officers joined cordially in a dance with the Malagassy officers and ladies, accusations that the Nymphe had fired into the town, and that an armed party had landed and carried off Malagassy subjects. It grieves us very much, tenderly observed this document, that after our Governor had observed the treaty and had seized the Mozambiques, our land should still be fired at with ball, without provocation, and that the commander of the (HMS) Nymphe * was so enraged. Pending any enquiry into this matter, the Consul atTamatave had succeeded in obtaining a promise that the slaves landed, would be given up to Great Britain, and
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Image: The slave trading port of Majunga (circa 1869). ASPECT OF MAJUNGA. 321 it was finally arranged that the Dryad should bear to the Governor of Majunga, the Queen of Madagascar's order to deliver up the slaves to the commander of that ship. With such a letter in my possession, in all outward and inward appearance resembling an ordinary English despatch, and directed :— Any Ramasy, 14 Vtra Dekany, Prime Minister, Governor Ny Mojanga we came to an anchor off the place on a bright pleasant day in early September. The town hes low down, close to the water, inhabited by Sakalaves, Arabs and Negroes. TheHovas inhabit the fort on the hill-top overlooking the town. From my sketch the reader may obtain a fair idea of the general appearance of both places, when viewed from the sea face. So looked at, the town has a homely pleasant appearance, and the few two-storied stone buildings, in their architectural style, brought forcibly to my mind what I had seen in many an Irish country town.The surrounding aspect of the country was that of an undulating plain, well

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