 It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea-water, as ballast ; and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahia neglected to change the contents of the casks, and,...  The African Repository - Page 371841Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 600 pages
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the mid-passage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks...contents of the casks, and, on the midpassage, found, to their horror, that they were filled with nothing but salt water. All the slaves on board perished.'... | |
 | William Whitaker Shreeve - Sierra Leone - 1817 - 128 pages
...the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, during the middle passage, suffer from so much as the want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea water as ballast, and, when the slaves are received on board, they start the casks and refill them... | |
 | 1830 - 614 pages
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the mid-passage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Brazil - 1830 - 592 pages
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the mid-passage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the mid passage, suffer from so much as the want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea- water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, end refill them... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...nothing" which slaves, in the midĪassage, suffer from so much as want of water. I is somelimes usual lo take out casks filled with sea-water as ballast, and...refill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahķa neglected to change the contents of the casks, and on Uie mid-passage found, to iheir horror,... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1833 - 262 pages
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing1 from which slaves in the mid-passage suffer so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks...sea-water as ballast, and when the slaves are received on hoard, to start the casks, and re-fill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahia neglected... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 624 pages
...of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the midpassage, suffer from so much as want of water. It ,s sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea-water...contents of the casks, and on the mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filled w,th nothing but salt water. All the slaves on board perished... | |
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