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LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM SIERRE LEONE
Horrors Of the SLaUe Trade. The U. S. GA
zette has dates from Sierra Leone TO the 30th
August. Between April LIST, 1871, and nth
May, l845, sixty vessels, with 5000 slaves on
board, had been captured. Five Of the vessels
were destroyed, and the rest condemned.
Among the slayers captured was the "Afri-
cano." At the time it was taken there were
$50, of which number 29 died on her passage
to Freetown, and on the first night of her ar
rival there, 80 more we're hurried into eternity.
| 1T appeared there were two distinct tribes
among the negroes, and during the night they
commenced quarrelling, and being mutually
oxasperated, commenced beating each other
with bilets of wood, and whenever opportu-
nifty offered strangling each other. The next
morning thirty were found dead, and within
two days after, five more died. Five hundred
and twenty-four were at length landed, and
the Watchman says:


An eye witness informs US that the poor
creatures were SO thirsty that they drank the
water out the ends of old canoes, which were
hauled up on the beach, surrounding them like
SO many hounds after hard chase, each push
ing the other for drop of water. On reach
ing the African yard they were supplied with
water, which they drank out of mess tins with
avidity. There was no slave deck on board of
this vessel, and several of the poor creatures
got iammed between the casks, and were Sc
verely bruised; these casks formed their beds to
lie upon.


The officer of the Navy, who brought the
"Africano," stated that the towns of Lagos
on the slave coast, have been completely de-
stroyed. A chief, who was banished from La
gos by the King, about three years ago, re-
turned in July last, with force of ten thou
sand men, drove out the reignng King and his
people, and took possession of the rivers and
town Of Once, 1t is said that in the contest,
upwards of five thousand persons were slain,
and during several nights, the glare of burning
towns Illuminated the air for miles around.


Some of the slavers pursued their trade in
human flesh with great boldness, and one of
them, large brig, fired into and beat off the
boats of British and Portuguese men-of-war.