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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 56, 26 June 1876, Page 2

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The Briton, screw corvette, Q Lindesay Brine, which arrived ho® week to be paid off, was commissi® the 28th November, 1871, at Shea A correspondent of the "Porta Times " gives an account of her open on the East Coast of Africa in tit pression of the slave trade. Somei boats with their crews were detat: various times from thirty to eighty Twelve slave dhows were captured l boats, and nearly 200 slaves resuei bondage. One dhow contained 122 women, and children of all ages, the! rity being children of from fe fourteen years •of age. They were terrible condition, their bones protm and being in a most famished anf gusting state, rendering it incredil think they were human beings eni> with reason at all. 200 had start days before the boats captured he seventy-eight had died from starvai the passage, and been thrown over like dogs. The Briton's men gar, captain of the dhow four dozen? good rope's end for striking a slave they had captured the vessel, an sighting the ship he over and was drowned, probably fearing petition of the wholesome lesson, 1 a slight idea of the the J in her cruise, saw on the ""coast, f her cruise on the coast of Africa U attacked and destroyed the skve-t village of Kionga, where the inlial had murdered a sub-lieutenant c Daphne in a most treacherous m coming behind him whilst seated i chief's hut, driving a steel-headed through his back, and hacking hie swords till dead.