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Index
Cover
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Glossary of historical figures
Glossary of mid-nineteenth-century royal navy ranks
Introduction: The Arabian Sea, May 1869
PART I: ‘SET A SQUADRON IN THE FIELD’
1: ‘On the brow o’ the sea’: Meara, Heath, Sulivan and Colomb before their convergence
2: ‘The valiant of this warlike isle’: The commodore’s resolution and the journey of the Daphne
3: ‘His bark is stoutly timber’d’: Commodore Heath declares his intent and the Amazons prepare for their campaign
4: ‘The imminent deadly breach’: Daphne hunts and draws first blood
5: ‘In her prophetic fury sew’d the work’: The spiders spin their web, unaware of their own vulnerability
6: ‘With all his might’: Edward Meara between the choices of justice and the law
7: ‘If it prove lawful prize’: The grinding work of inspecting traders, and the question of prize money
8: ‘Of moving accidents by flood and field’: Dryad and Daphne continue the hunt, meeting success and near disaster
9: ‘Destiny unshunnable, like death’: The courtroom on the Dryad and the battle in Zanzibar harbour
10: ‘Most disastrous chances’: The daring of the Kroomen, the success of the spider’s web tactic, and the cost in lives
PART II: ‘A DANGEROUS SEA’
11: ‘Too true an evil’: Forces array against the squadron while Daphne approaches the realm of a slaver king
12: ‘The wind hath spoke aloud at land’: As word of the squadron’s ‘zealotry’ spreads, so does alarm in official circles
13: ‘Swell his sail with thine own powerful breath’: Sulivan, Meara and Heath work to expose hypocrisy, and Daphne tries to outrun a curse
14: ‘Stand upon the foaming shore’: Philip Colomb tries to win the release of hundreds of kidnapped Mozambicans
15: ‘Traitors ensteep’d to clog the guiltless keel’: The squadron sails into political trouble
16: ‘Vouch with me, heaven’: Sulivan tests the depths of hypocrisy while Colomb examines the fate of the African refugees
17: ‘False as water’: Dark days for Meara and Sulivan at Zanzibar, while Colomb wins a joyless victory in Madagascar
PART III: ‘SOLD TO SLAVERY, OF MY REDEMPTION THENCE’
18: ‘The desperate tempest’: The political storm breaks over the squadron
19: ‘After every tempest come such calms’: News of their work precedes the captains to Britain, to good effect
20: ‘May the winds blow till they have waken’d death!’: The last effort to compel Zanzibar
21: ‘Here is my journey’s end’: A return that marks the beginning of the end
Note on sources and methods
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
About the Author
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