Chapter Three
When she awoke the next day she heard sounds of activity above her, on deck. Eventually the hatch was lifted and the girls allowed out. They were only five miles or so from shore. Caroline could see a substantial settlement, rows of white houses and on a hill a huge citadel. Gradually the town got closer, until they anchored a few yards offshore. Small boats came out to them and the captain leaned over the side, talking to the men who had rowed out. Eventually, after much delay, the girls were loaded into some of the boats and taken ashore. A tall, stout man in a long white robe appeared on the quay, evidently the slave trader. He barked a series of instructions to his assistants, ordering them to bind all the girls together with a long iron chain that snaked round each gir
