Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean; A Record of Naval Experiences
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE NAVAL POWERS'FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE TRADE. When the naval officer takes up the command of one of H.M.'s ships in the Indian Ocean, most probably he has no such connected idea of the northern slave trade which he is to intercept and suppress as I have given in the previous chapter. There is no ' Hand-book' to the East African slave trade, and he must acquire his knowledge of it chiefly by experience. Information respecting his powers of dealing with the slave trade in general, and instructions more or less minute, are however supplied to him in an octavo volume, the growth of many years' West Coast practice, under the title of ' Instructions for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.' By far the greater part of this book is occupied by the text of treaties entered into between Great Britain and other European States, for the mutual allowance of search in suspected cases of slave-trading under one another's flags. Very little indeed has anything to do with the East African slave trade: very little help, guiding his proceedings, is given to the naval officer in the Indian Ocean. The book is or was, no doubt, excellent for the West Coast slave trade. But WestTREATIES. 63 Coast experience and East African facts are contrary the one to the other. France and Turkey are the only civilized States upon whose flags the least suspicion of an illicit trade in slaves rests; and the suspicion does not, in the case of France, thus lie on European ships in European hands, but on Arab vessels in Arab hands. These men, it is alleged, obtain the right to fly the French flag either by a fraud on, or through the carelessness of, the Government of a French colony, and carry on their nefarious practices under its protecting folds. Consequently none of the European treati...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217872379
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 142
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217872379
  • Publisher Date: 16 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 268 gr


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