3-071-251 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Burning a condemned slave dhow at Funzi, Pemba Island, 1881. 'Another of the Sketches by our Special Artist at Zanzibar, Mr. J. Bell, is now engraved...[It] represents the burning of a condemned slave dhow at Funzi, in the isle of Pemba,...[Zanzibar]'. Captain Charles James Brownrigg, senior Royal Navy officer on the East African station for the suppression of the contraband slave trade, was killed by Arab slave traders at Pemba, Zanzibar. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.