health, all but a few, who are significantly called lanterns by the sailors, because, I suppose, you can almost see through them. ${ }^{2}$  
Subterfuge was frequently employed by Indian Ocean slavers to disguise shipments of allegedly 'free' passengers that actually included captive children. In one notorious case in 1893, a British naval vessel stopped an Arab dhow flying French colours that was headed for Muscat. Although its passenger list included only adults between the ages of 16 to 40 years, when the dhow was boarded by British sailors, most of the 77 passengers were found to be children in various states of distress. ${ }^{3}$ Children seem also to have been included in shipments of captive Africans to satisfy the French demand for plantation labour in France's Indian Ocean islands.