Note 542 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The “buccaneers,” quite as humane, made their useless prisoners “walk a plank.” The slave-ships, when chased and hard-driven, simply tossed the poor devil niggers overboard; and the latter must often have died, damning the tender mercies of the philanthrope which had doomed them to untimely deaths instead of a comfortable middle passage from Blackland to Whiteland.