Chasing A Slave Trade Ship
Chapter One
A Warship in the Gulf of Guinea
June 1817.
In the eastern horizon of the Gulf of Guinea, the first ray of red sunlight starts to rip off the darkness of the sky like a sabre. This ocean space belongs to the northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean. Bemoaning at the opaque blue water of the gulf won’t give anyone the slightest hint that how violent it becomes during storm surge and high wind gusts. In such picturesque backdrop of early morning, the silhouette of a warship has resumed to glow.
Glittering black muzzles of the guns of this British sailing warship have been projecting from all of twenty-two yawning wide gun ports. On the aft-side of the warship, its name is visible in silhouette- HMS Madhumati.
This wooden-masted warship is a twenty-two cannon Royal Navy ship under the Command of Captain Benjamin Brown. The 120 feet long ship has been armed with twelve 32-pounder smooth-bore cannon and ten 9-pounder cannons as chase…
