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makes no sense.
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- Not even to you.
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But thank you. Like all good works
of fiction, it was entertaining.
:43:12
Nothing more.
:43:24
Captain Fitzgerald,
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please explain your duties
in Her Majesty's navy.
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To patrol the Ivory Coast
for slave ships.
:43:31
Because?
:43:33
Because slavery is banned
in British law, sir.
:43:37
Yet the abduction of men from the
British protectorate of Sierra Leone
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and their illegal transportation
as described by Cinque,
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- is not unheard of, is it?
- Not even unusual, regrettably.
:43:48
What, if anything, in his account of
his ordeal, do you find believable?
:43:54
His description of the slave
fortress, for one thing.
:43:59
There is such a place.
:44:01
You've seen it?
:44:03
No, sir. We've not
managed to locate it,
:44:05
but there is overwhelming
evidence that it is real.
:44:08
What evidence, exactly? Rumour?
:44:12
Reports.
:44:14
By "reports" you mean of the variety
Cinque shared with us today?
:44:19
Its existence, sir,
has been reported.
:44:23
Cinque describes
the cold-blooded murder
:44:26
of many of the people
on board the Tecora.
:44:28
Mr Holabird sees this as a paradox.
Do you, sir?
:44:32
Often when slavers are intercepted,
or believe they may be,
:44:36
they simply throw all
their prisoners overboard
:44:39
and thereby rid themselves
of the evidence of their crime.
:44:42
- Drown hundreds of people?
- Yes.
:44:47
It hardly seems a lucrative
business to me,
:44:50
going to all that trouble rounding
men up only to throw them overboard.
:44:55
No, it's very lucrative.
:44:57
If only we could corroborate
Cinque's story somehow with...