SAVED BY LINER

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 117, 14 November 1930, Page 7

SAVED BY LINER

RUNAWAY SLAVE

While the P. ana 0. liner Nankin wag off the Farsan Islands in the Bed Sea on a voyage from London to Calcutta, a dug-out containing a native endeavouring to reach the. liner was sighted. The liner was stopped for nearly half aa hour while the man and his dug-out were picked up. It was found that ha had a handful of food but no water, and that he was half-blind. He waai taken on to Aden, says the "Manchess ter Guardian." Captain J. M. M. Tickell, the commander of the liner, in his report to th^ P. and O. office in London, stated: "Or arrival at Aden I handed this man over to the pojiee interpreter, who elicited that the man was an Abyssinian native; who had run away from a dhow in Farsan, on board of which, he alleged, he was held as a slave. He said he wa« trying to reach Massawa, had lost his way, and had been four days at sea. The dug-out was only 10ft in length by 2ft beam, with a freeboard of about four inches, and his chance of getting across was practically nil. He also reported, that there were four other slaves- «» board the dhow."