[^0]:    4 See Lovejoy, 2010: 5. José Curto assisted Lovejoy in this research project. For a revision, see Lovejoy 2011, pp. 247-63.
5 Indian corn or maize, as distinct from Guinea corn or sorghum.  
Catherine Mulgrave-Zimmermann recounted Ngeve's life story to Johannes Zimmermann, her second husband, who then narrated it in his letter of 18 November 1852 to the Basel Mission Committee headquarters to justify his decision to marry her. Apart from the description of her town and the story of her capture, she gave him details about the journey aboard the Heroina. The ship had passed within sight of an island in the central South Atlantic Ocean and approached from its volcanic and mountainous south-east. It must have been Ascension Island, which had been designated a port for one of the antislavery squadrons ordered by the British Government to patrol the waters off the coast of western Central Africa - as well as the approaches to ports in Brazil and the Caribbean - in order to staunch the supply of enslaved people from Africa to Western locations. So it is not surprising to learn that the Heroina was intercepted by a squadron patrol sometime after passing the island. The captain was fearful, as the children observed from their vantage point in the captain's quarters - as we know from other narratives of the enslaved, this was not an unusual practice, perhaps because children were viewed as inoffensive and unlikely to behave in a rebellious manner, unlike the older teenagers and adults, who were kept below deck, in the hold, which would be opened daily to allow them up for fresh air; one adult had been taken on deck and badly beaten as punishment for trying to kill himself with a steel knife.