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Updated: June 12, 2025
The doctor has advised me also to send Bahi, and has promised to find a comfortable home for her, where she will learn to read and write your language and many other useful things. It is hard to part with her; but it is for her good and that of her people.
Bahi and twelve young Malays were taken to Penang in the Serpent, where the doctor found a comfortable home for her with some friends of his, to whom payment for her board and schooling was to be paid by Hassan in blocks of tin, which he would obtain from boats coming down from the hills in exchange for other articles of trade.
The scene beggars description; suffice it to say, it was sufficient to cause tears from one at least 'whose skin was not colored like their own, and I was not ashamed to give vent to them." In the "New Orleans Bee," May 31, 1837, MR. P. BAHI, gives notice that he has committed to JAIL as a runaway 'a little negro AGED ABOUT SEVEN YEARS.
The child had picked up, during her month on board the ship, a great deal of English, from her constant communication with the officers and crew. "Bad men wound Dick," she went on pitifully. "Wicked men to hurt him." "Bahi, will you tell your father how much we are obliged to him for having come to our rescue. We should have been killed if he had not come." The child translated the sentence.
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