A Cruise in the Gorgon
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They take whichever turns up first, slaves or merchandize. They are generally armed with old flint-lock muskets, sometimes a small three-pounder gun, together with assegais, daggers, and two-handed swords, but generally yield without fighting ; our boats usually have a long chase unless they fire round shot ; 70 A CRUISE IN TEE "GORGON.'' musket-balls they ignore, but when the former is used they haul down their immense sail at once. These dhows generally procure their slaves along the coast up... rivers, bights, and bays, the more concealed the better.
An order is given to the slave procurers to get so many slaves by a certain time, divided into lots at different places on the coast ; generally the trader kidnaps them, sometimes giving beads, silk, and wire, &c. for the poor creatures. The dhows then make their appearance, their owners giving cottons, cloth, silks, and dollars in exchange. At present, about Zanzibar, the price of a male adult is about twenty or thirty dollars, lower down the coast, women, fifteen to twenty, children, one to five.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They take whichever turns up first, slaves or merchandize. They are generally armed with old flint-lock muskets, sometimes a small three-pounder gun, together with assegais, daggers, and two-handed swords, but generally yield without fighting ; our boats usually have a long chase unless they fire round shot ; 70 A CRUISE IN TEE "GORGON.'' musket-balls they ignore, but when the former is used they haul down their immense sail at once. These dhows generally procure their slaves along the coast up... rivers, bights, and bays, the more concealed the better.
An order is given to the slave procurers to get so many slaves by a certain time, divided into lots at different places on the coast ; generally the trader kidnaps them, sometimes giving beads, silk, and wire, &c. for the poor creatures. The dhows then make their appearance, their owners giving cottons, cloth, silks, and dollars in exchange. At present, about Zanzibar, the price of a male adult is about twenty or thirty dollars, lower down the coast, women, fifteen to twenty, children, one to five.
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