The White Man's Grave: a Visit to Sierra Leone, in 1834, Volum 2R. Bentley, 1836 |
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The White Man's Grave: a Visit to Sierra Leone, in 1834, Volum 2 F. Harrison Rankin Visualització completa - 1836 |
The White Man's Grave: A Visit to Sierra Leone, in 1834, Volum 2 F. Harrison Rankin Visualització completa - 1836 |
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Pàgina 122 - The body frequently stiffens in a permanent curve; and in the streets of Freetown I have seen liberated slaves in every conceivable state of distortion. One I remember who trailed along his body, with his back to the ground, by means of his hands and ankles. Many can never resume the upright posture.
Pàgina 119 - Before us, lying in a heap, huddled together at the foremast, on the bare and filthy deck, lay several human beings in the last stage of emaciation - dying. The ship fore and aft was thronged with men, women, and children, all entirely naked, and disgusting with disease. The stench was nearly insupportable, cleanliness being impossible. I stepped to the hatchway; it was secured by iron bars and cross bars, and pressed against them were the heads of slaves below. It appeared that the crowd on deck...
Pàgina 119 - We easily leaped on board, as she lay low in the water. The first hasty glance around caused a sudden sickness and faintness, followed by an indignation more intense than discreet. Before us, lying in a heap, huddled together at the foot of the foremast, on the bare and filthy deck, lay several human beings in the last stage of emaciation — dying. The ship fore and aft was thronged with men, women, and children, all entirely naked, and disgusting with disease.
Pàgina 121 - The following is a brief description given by an eye-witness, of the unloading of a captured slaver, which had been brought into Sierra Leone : "The captives were now counted ; their numbers, sex, and age, written down, for the information of the court of mixed commission. The task was repulsive. As the hold had been divided for the separation of the men and the women, those on deck were first counted ; they were then driven forward, crowded as much as possible, and the women were drawn up through...
Pàgina 96 - Gloria," had left Loando, on the slave-coast, with a few bales of merchandise, to comply with the formalities required by the authorities from vessels engaged in legal traffic ; for the slave-trade, under the Brazilian flag, is now piracy. No sooner was she out of port than the real object of her voyage declared itself. She hastily received on board four hundred and thirty negroes, who had been mustered in readiness, and sailed for Rio Janeiro. Off the mouth of that harhour she arrived in November,...
Pàgina 98 - Dropsy, eruptions, abscesses, and dysentery, were making ravages, and ophthalmia was general. Until formally adjudicated by the court, the wretched slaves could not be landed, nor even relieved from their sickening situation. With the green hills and valleys of the colony close to them, they must not leave their prison. I saw them in April ; they had been in the harbour two months, and no release had been offered them. But the most painful circumstance was the final decision of the court. The slaver...
Pàgina 95 - I was indulging in the first view of the waters of the estuary glittering in the hot sun, and endeavouring to distinguish from the many vessels at anchor the barque which had brought me from England. Close in-shore lay a large schooner, so remarkable from the low sharp cut of her black hull, and the excessive rake of her masts, that she seemed amongst the other craft as a swallow seems amongst other birds.
Pàgina 119 - May, 1834, the signal-gun told of the approach of a vessel, which the looker-out on the signal hill announced, by the usual mode of hoisting a coloured ball to the top of a staff, to be a schooner or brig from the south. A sharp-built schooner with crowded canvas glanced up the estuary like lightning. Her nature was obvious. She was a prize. A painful interest prompted me to visit as speedily as possible this prison-ship. A friend offered the advantage of his company to a scene which has sometimes...
Pàgina 99 - British cruisers, guaranteeing a safe and free passage back to the Brazils ; and I saw the evil ship weigh anchor and leave Sierra Leone, the seat of slave liberation, with her large canvass proudly swelling, and her ensign floating as if in contempt and triumph. Thus a third time were the dying wretches carried across the Atlantic after seven months' confinement ; few probably lived through the passage.
Pàgina 127 - ... principle. They are not, however, destitute of feeling. On one occasion it was displayed in an interesting manner. A visit of some of the English prize officers to the Yard had evidently given pleasure to several of their late charge. It happened, however, that when the ship stock of yams and pepper was brought to the King's Yard, one of the black boatswains, a most ugly Kroo named Bottle of Beer, who had superintended the slaves in their voyage, accompanied the sailors who brought the food....