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Title: A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919
Subjects: Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919 Africa, Central -- Description and travel Africa, Central -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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C ifi 5(S >K * On my passage home from Africa I travelled onboard a Portuguese steamer. When within abouttwelve hours steaming of the island of San Thome,which lies on the Equator, off Gaboon, we sighted acapsized boat. The weather had been rough and aheavy sea was still running. We lowered one of ourboats, which proceeded with difficulty towards thederelict. Our astonishment was great when we foundthat two Africans were clinging to it, Soon we hadthem on board, two forlorn men, who were quite ex-hausted. After a little rest and nourishment we suc-ceeded in obtaining their story. They were bothslaves belonging to a cocoa plantation. Three daysbefore they had attempted to escape from their cruelbondage in an open boat. Having no knowledgewhatever of their bearings, they rowed, with trueAfrican unreasoning confidence, in the direction of
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A Congo carrier Drawn by the Author SOUVENIRS 221 the rising sun. They were caught by the storm, theirboat was capsized, and they had passed three daysclinging to the bottom of the boat without food ofany description. Their survival was the more remarkable from thefact that the vicinity of San Thome is one of themost shark-infested portions of the coast. We naturally felt great pity for them and theywere the recipients of various presents, including avery handsome clasp-knife. That same night there was a disturbance betweenthese two men. It was discovered that the man whohad received the clasp-knife was deliberately attempt-ing to kill his comrade, and had already inflictedsome deep flesh wounds. The trouble arose from aspirit of envy. One man had been allotted a blueblanket and the other a red blanket, and the manwith the clasp-knife was envious of his compan-ions blanket, which he preferred to his own. It wasa deadly quarrel over a mere question of colour.***** With regard to the bl

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