One particular group of enslaved Africans was to become an important constituent of the Bombay Africans. In 1860, a dhow left Kilwa with as many as 300 enslaved Africans, but many of the young people and children who were ill were thrown overboard before the dhow arrived at Zanzibar (Harris, 1977, pp. 22-23). The dhow sailed on to Mogadishu where some enslaved Oromo were taken on board. When HMS Thetis intercepted the dhow, the 200 surviving enslaved Africans were liberated and taken to Bombay.