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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terwards displays. So that we generally understand that the stoppage of food is the simple and only way of dealing discipline to the rescued slave as we find him. We have heard something of late, of the beauty of the East Africans from the Lake District. I cannot doubt that if an average specimen of these Africans could be placed suddenly, just as he or she appears asa rescued slave, plump, well fed and cared for, on a London platform, there would be a cry of What a frightful object! If, however, the audience were prepared beforehand,the object would no longer be frightful but one to be certainly pitied—perhaps admired. No one knows better than the naval officer, how absolutely comparative beauty is. He falls in love with a face in a distant colony, and wonders at himself when he sees the same face in a London drawing-room. Therefore, although we may charge upon some writers a neglect of remembering the English idea of beauty when speaking of the Lake District negro, we must allow for the absence
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J^ m GALLA SLAVES on board HMS Daphne. From a photograph by Capt. Sulivan R.N. 273 of such standard when they write, and the strange sentiment which surrounds the subject. If we take the English ideal of beauty, the Galla slaves exported from Brava, much more nearly approach it than the negro farther south. Burton says that the Galla slaves are a sort of low-class Abyssinian in appearance;he further declares that they fetch low prices, being considered roguish and treacherous. I have no knowledge of the Abyssinian physique,but the few Gallas I had on board were of a much higher type than the more southern negroes, and more-over, according to all appearances, the Arab slave merchant set especial store by them. They certainly held themselves many degrees above their fellow captives—would not eat with them, formed a little clique of their own, and kept altogether aloof from the rest.There was one young girl, tall, slight, and by comparison not ill-formed or favoured, who wore some shreds of a spangled veil about her head. She was quite a lady negress, a

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