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women and girls shipwrecked on the wild coast of southern Africa in 1782

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author, Stephen Taylor, has scrutinised written and oral testimony

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Mmmmmmm - oral testimony from 1782 -

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Lydia Logie, the young, vivacious wife of the Grosvenor's chief officer

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"young and vivacious" - Wilbur Smith was alive in the 18th Century!

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Several female passengers did indeed survive and become intimate with tribesmen. But rather than being abducted and raped it appears they chose to become wives and mothers.

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met a Xhosa man who told him of a white woman who had lived among his tribe, and she "had a child, and she frequently embraced the child, and cried most violently".

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She doesn't sound too happy seeing she chose to be a wife and mother.


All up a rather confused news article.



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John aka NitroX

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