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Show m A MODERX SLAVE SHIP LOST. The Brig Tanita Found Floating Bottom-t'p Bottom-t'p in the Pacific. San Francisco, Xov. 30. A dispatch from Mauzanillo states that the American steamer Roseville had arrived there and reports passing pass-ing the wreck of the brig Tanita at sea. She was floating bottom up, and the captain of the Roseville says she must have been capsized. cap-sized. The rigging had been cut away on the port side, apparently to prevent this. The Tanita created a sensation last September Septem-ber by putting into Drake's bay. near this city, in distress. She had T0 Gilbert Islanders Isl-anders on board, under contract to work in Mexieoat starvation wages. These men were practically slaves and there was much talk of sei.iug the vessel. Collector Phelps, however, decided that he had no right to detain de-tain her, and the brig left. It seems almost certain that all on board were lost, as the ship's boats were still with her and nothing has been heard of any survivors. The wreck must have happened at least a month ago. Besides the islanders, the vessel carried car-ried officers and a crew twenty-one, in number, num-ber, making a total of 291 on board. mm. |