said that they had been forced to dress up, and
threatened that should they not do so they would be thrown overboard.
It was ascertained that most of them had been carried away from the
coast not many days before, and that they had come a long journey from
the interior. Pango had been picked up from a canoe while fishing off
the shore, and carried away.

The evidence was so clear that Jack, without hesitation, destroyed the
dhow, which could not be towed all the way to Zanzibar, resolving to
risk all the consequences.

During the passage several other dhows were met with, but although there
were blacks on board, there was not sufficient evidence to prove that
they were slaves. It convinced Jack, however, that the abominable trade
was still carried on, that thousands of Africans were carried off to
Arabia, Persia, and other parts of Asia, to toil in hopeless slavery for
the remainder of their lives, and that it would be necessary to make yet
more strenuous efforts than before if it was to be effectually put down.
He remembered, too, all the horrors he had witnessed and heard of in
connection with the slave trade in the interior, when whole villages and
districts were depopulated, and numbers were killed or perished from
hunger, besides those captured by the Arabs.

Pango was of assistance in enabling him to condemn two dhows, besides
those he was compelled to let escape. The black improved rapidly in
English, or rather recovered what he had lost. Jack asked where he
wished to be put on shore.

"Me no go shore 'gain," answered Pango. "May be slave fellow take me
'gain. Me go where ship go. Me stay board. Pango now sailor man."

He was accordingly entered as one of the crew, greatly to his delight.

Jack inquired for his brother Bango.

Pango's countenance became very sad. "Do slavy man take him. Me tinke
cut him troat. Me not see him now five years;" and poor Pango burst
into tears as he thought of the fate which had overtaken Bango, showing
that some Africans, at all events, have as great an affection for their
relatives as have white men for theirs.

On arriving at Zanzibar, Jack handed over the Arab crew to the
authorities, to be dealt with for their infraction of the law; and the
slaves were placed on board another man-of-war, to be carried to the
Seychelle Islands, where they might enjoy liberty and a climate suited
to their constitutions.

Jack was again disappointed at not gaining at Zanzibar