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You've seen it?
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No, sir. We've not
managed to locate it,
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but there is overwhelming
evidence that it is real.
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What evidence, exactly? Rumour?
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Reports.
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By "reports" you mean of the variety
Cinque shared with us today?
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Its existence, sir,
has been reported.
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Cinque describes
the cold-blooded murder
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of many of the people
on board the Tecora.
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Mr Holabird sees this as a paradox.
Do you, sir?
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Often when slavers are intercepted,
or believe they may be,
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they simply throw all
their prisoners overboard
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and thereby rid themselves
of the evidence of their crime.
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- Drown hundreds of people?
- Yes.
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It hardly seems a lucrative
business to me,
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going to all that trouble rounding
men up only to throw them overboard.
:44:55
No, it's very lucrative.
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If only we could corroborate
Cinque's story somehow with...
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with evidence of some kind.
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The inventory.
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This? From the Tecora?
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If you look, there's
a notation made on May 10,
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correcting the number of slaves on
board, reducing their number by 50.
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What does that mean?
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If you look at it in conjunction
with Cinque's testimony,
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I would say that it means this:
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The crew greatly underestimated
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the amount of provisions
required for their journey,
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and solved the problem
by throwing 50 people overboard.