The Ashburton Guardian.

vol. xiv. no. 3004

Ishburtois : Tuesday, June 20, 1893.

price: one penny}"

A SEA BLACKBIRD.

THE FATE OF A SLAVE SHIP IT THE GULF OF GUINEA.

Drifting for Day* Within Em? Beach. *i • Cargo of Negroes and Obliged to Sup* ply Them with Water—Saved by fc - Hurricane. [Copyright, 1893, by Charles B. Lewis.] It was in the fifties, betore steamers bad superseded the great Australian Unerf and the big ships plying between England and India. I was a midshipman onboard an India packet called the Sea King. Tie) difference between a midshipman, s>jr called, and an apprentice lay in the fad that the former were petty officers and learned navigation and seamanship froift the quarter deck, while the latter. wer% fo'castle bands and helped to perform tbfck actual work. Our ship carried three mid* shipmen, and our respective fathers hs4 to pay a smart sum to place us where w% were. .■:■ - « I At that time the running of slave cat goes from the coast of Africa was confined solely to the Arabs and the Cubans, with now and then a cargo for some South American port. We left Calcutta with about 170 passengers, and of this number there were about fifty army officers. Somfe had resigned on account of wounds or ill health; others were on furlough, and other! still had been exchanged into home regi* merits. There was also a party of fiver sportsmen who had been "doing" the jun gles of India, for two or three years. At Cape Town we took on board thirty moro passengers, and among them was another party of sportsmen who had been up tp the lion country. We must have had a full hundred men among the passengers when we left the cape. ~ Nothing out of the routine occurred until we were well above St. Caul de t<6* • anda and half way across the Ctalf of Guinea. Then we raised a sail dead ahead; which was standing to the west, having evidently come out from the coast. We were within four miles of her when the, breeze, which bad been light all the morn ing, died flat out and left both draft heaving on a glassy sea. Out Officers had given the stranger a sharp looking over; and it was the unanimous opinion that she was a suspicious character. She was a topsail schooner, painted a grayish white and having a great spread of canvas, and when Mr. Grayson, the chief officer, canle down from aloft, after a long inspectioh through the glasa, he said to Captain, Hobson: "I've seen twenty of the Cuban 'black birds' in my time, and if she's not loaded . with slaves, then I'm a blind man. 1' The captain agreed that she was a slaver. England, as you perhaps know, did more to suppress the slave trade than all other nations combined. She had five cruisers to one off the African coast, and she overhauled five times as many craft as any other nation. But for her efforts very little would have been accomplished at sen. As soon as the strange craft was pronounced a slaver there was great in dignation among our passengers, a major ity of the men being anxious to go off in the small boats and capture her. This project did not meet with the views of our captain at all. While he would like to have seen her a prize to a cruiser, he had no notion of interfering with her move ments. , I heard him say to a Major Shaw, who was anxious to lead an expedi tion, that the schooner was doubtless armed with cannon and carried a large crew, and that any interference with her would be a , serious matter. Nobody dreamed of the calm which wa« to follow, although our position was dose to the equator. It was summer time in those latitudes, but not oppressively hot Not the slightest movement of aif was felt for the rest of the day, and at? passed the day so passed the night. Next morn ing it was seen that the two crafts were nearer together by half a mile or more. There are writers who call this movement of becalmed vessels magnetism. ttlssLn^ ply their drift. The larger one drifts thfc fastest, and had we been to the north of the schooner the distance would have beeft increased by half a mile, as both of us were drifting to the north in an ocean current After breakfast Major Shaw wanted to pull off to the unknown on some sort of errand and thus settle her identity, but Captain Hobson was firm in his refusal. Indeed, as he surveyed the horizon andcon^ suited the glass and satisfied himself that the calm was to continue, he grew uneasy. All day the Sea King rose and fell on thb, glassy ground swells with the regularity of a pendulum, and when night came w* were within a couple of miles of th« schooner.' The glasses brought her so&eat that every detail could be noted. Every thing about her showed that she was bnjlk Mid fitted out for speed. Only nine or ted, -■ ■* could be counted for her crew, and mci* *ounged about as honest sailors they i.. -. r the circumstances. That she would unuv gun amidships we did not had a Long lx. ~ it w as covered in from, doubt, although ■> were also good rea actual sight. Thert, * Q e carried other, sons to believe that _ number of men metal as well, and that the. ">l{ represent seen on her decks did not hu. *'« second her crew. On the evening of ttu v<«sQn day the captain and mate held a lon*, *^ v sultation, and as a result passenger alt. passenger was Invited into the captaLu'ji room, and he said to each one in turn: "The strange craft is a slaver and has a cargo aboard. In order to carry as many negroes as possible they figure does on fresh water. If this calm continues another day we shall have a visit from him. lean spare him a couple of casks, but not more. Those may do him; if not he will attempt to take a supply by force. We have no cannon, but we can raise at least 100 firearms among us, and I propose to fight him off." When daylight came the drift of the ships had shortened the distance again.v_ The slaver did not look to be over half a mile away, but her actual distance was three times that figure. The sentinels had heard queer noises from her direction after mid night, and our people figured thai they had bad gangs of negroes on deck at intervals, and had sluiced water over those in the hold to save them as much as possible. If there had been any doubt of her calling, the odor which came to us about sunrise would have dispelled It. Many could not detect it, but there were at least twenty aboard who got the smell, though not the slightest breath of air was stirring. The odor of a cargo of blacks is something horrible. On one occasion, after the capture of an Arab dhow by a British cruiser. I was on a ship which crossed their wake five miles astern, and yet we got the odor so strong that some of the men were made slok. After breakfast the captain requested all passengers to promenade the decks, knowing that the slaver was inspecting us through his glasses and desiring to present a bold front to him. It was to be another day without a puff of air and muoh hotter than the preceding ones. It was 10 o'clock when we saw them lower a small boat from the stern of the schooner andjour^



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Business Notices. j : ■ — : ■* ASHBURTON PERMANENT BUTLD { ING AND INVESTMENT SCCIETI. I Offices : Tutored Street, Asimurton. ' rpo Encourage the saving of small sums JL the Society will take : MONEY ON DEPOSIT : In sums of One Pound and upwards, In- I terest 5 per cent on the following condi tions:— | Sums of One Found and up ware's ; received on Deposit, and Interest will be ( allowed on every complete Pound deposited, to be reckoned from the day ; on which « complete Pound nhall have | been deposited, up to the day on when the money Bhall be withi'jawn. A Depositor may withdraw the whole or part of che sum deposited, but nut in less sums than One Pound, except wheu closing the account. Deposits taken for 3 months at 5 per cent n it 6  6$ „ for longer periods at 6  For particular! apply EDWD, STEPHENS, Manager. Henry Zander, I BEG to fntimate that I hare jnst Landed a Large and Varied .-stock of HOLLIS' BE*T MAKES. Single and Double Barrel, Breech and Muzzle Loading. WELL WORTH INSPECTION. AMMUNITION AMMUNITION- Cartridges Cartridge Cases Csps Shot C and H Powder Smokeless Powder Flasks Belts Recappers Wnds .Punches l<** '«r etc. etc. . ■ ■ . I AM NOW SELLING, XT CHRTSTCHURCH PRTCSS, Cloves an^l Kaiiarc** MADE BY MESSRS SCOTT 8R0.^., for whose Goods I am Agent /<»' fchr Ashburton Co^■n^y«. Bornsby's and Ransome's Pbugu 6h»refi BEDUCED PRICES ,-■ Standards and Fencing Wire »t REDUCED PRICES. Ironmongery, China, and Glassware li» * all their Branches. Groceries and Provisions, Win«;s and Spirits of every description. HENRY ZAN DEB, GENERAL MERCHANT ▲2TD DIBE6T IMPOBTER. —AGENT FOR— | Sun Fire Insurance Compary *■ Oanton Marine Insurance Company Australian Mnhial VrovideMt s'ofio*y New Zealand and Australian S.B. Co. J T. yprdand Co. GRAIN & WOOL STOKES; WEST STREET, ASHBURTON. GRAIN MERCHANT, SHIPPING, FINANCIAL tc COMMISSION AGENT fto. CASH PUROHASEB OF WHEAT, BARLEY, OATS RYEGKASS j SEED, etc. COMMODIOUS STORAGE AT I CURRENT RATES. | ALWAYS "ON SALE- Oornsacka, Woolpacks, Tvrine, Super phosphsfcos, Pf-sarl-Guano, General Farm and Station Stores, &c. Oape Barley, Grass, Clover, Turnip and other Seeds of the best quality, AT. LO Wfl 3 P C fTRR HINT PIUCES. AGENT FOR THE New Zealand Loan and M 'rcautile gency Company, Ld. Union Fire and M>-r.hie Insuranoo Company. Howard's Digging Ploughs, Cooper's Sheep Dip Sutherland's Manure, tfc, JOillN O. UEHTELL, In conjunction with tne W«W ZSAKAIfIB X.OAIT * KUU CASTIIE AiiKltCV CO., MM. JOHN R BLAND, Auctioneer. Auctioneers, Wool Brokers, Land and Financial Agents, <fee., are prepared to : transact Farm and Station Business on the most favorable terms. WOOL. WOOL. WOOL LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES HADE AGA.WST j » ENSUING CLIPS. Ho Commission on Advances, and »t tht - LOWEST CURRENT RATBd Qf



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