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The owner of the slave-dhow was sent to prison, and the boys and girls were given away to Christian people to train, the missionary in Muscat getting the largest share. This was the origin of the rescued-slave school at Muscat. Other slaves are caught from time to time and liberated.
Slave-dhow being chased round Tajurrah Bah. Soldier lying dead in the moonlight outside Suakin. throat cut by Fuzzies. 'H'm! said Torpenhow, 'can't say I care for Verestchagin-and-water myself, but there's no accounting for tastes. Doing anything now, are you? 'No. I'm amusing myself here. Torpenhow looked at the sketches again, and nodded.
The good things of civilization are there, but they are unobtrusive, and the evils of civilization appear not at all, the native does not wear a derby hat with a kimona, as he does in Japan, nor offer you souvenirs of Zanzibar manufactured in Birmingham; Reuter's telegrams at the club and occasional steamers alone connect his white masters with the outer world, and so infrequent is the visiting stranger that the local phrase-book for those who wish to converse in the native tongue is compiled chiefly for the convenience of midshipmen when searching a slave-dhow.
Then the Consul got ready in a small boat and went after the big one. They had to follow nearly all night and at last overtook the slave-dhow. Then he bound them and put his own sailors on board, and brought the precious cargo of souls into Muscat harbour.
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