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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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ing, and relieve omselves fromconsidering a question to which no one has yet venturedto assign a fair side. In only one thing should thecaptured negro be placed differently as regards hisgovernment from the man-of-wars man. The latterstarts fit for freedom; the former should prove hisfitness and his desire, by purchasing it, before it canbecome his. But even while I write, I know we shall not look atmatters in this way; the very most we shall be preparedfor is the continuance of the present system in a newlocality. And then I sometimes think that the des-tinies of the East African negro will not, after all, comeinto our hands. There has grown up in the centre of Europe a powerwhose aims are wider and more distinct than those ofEngland. She has never shown herself frightened at aname, nor does she hesitate about embarking on acourse of policy whose end may be centuries distant.That power is second to us in material interest in EastAfrica. Already, we are told, she is looking thither as
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OCEAN Slave trading waters of the 40 longttide East from Ga:eenwuii_ Edw^* We) ler, Luha Hfid-lion -Squarr Zcnd£<n J^nqrrui^i^ A Cs FINIS. 503 to a field worthy of her enterprise ; it is to be hoped weare either ready to do and dare, or to give place,should the time come, to anyone ready to take up thequestion at the point where we have left it. The termination of my visit to Zanzibar was alsothe end of my slave-catching experiences. Theygrew more sad as time drew on, and I see the changeis visible in what I have written. LONDON : PnlNTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND rAULIAJlENT STllEET 39 Pateenosteb Eow, E.G.LoxDON: November 1872. GENERAL LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED BY Messrs. LOI&MAIS, &KEEI, EEADEE, and DTEE. AuTS, Manttfactuees, &e 13 AsTHONOiiry, Meteohology, Popl^lab GrEOGBAPHY, &C 8 BlOGEAPHICAI, WoEKS 4 Chemistby, Medicine, Suegeey, and the Allied Sciences 11 Ceiticism, Philosophy, Polity, &c.... 5 Pine Aets and Illitsteated Editions 12Hi

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