Typed account of service on HMS BRITON on the east coast of Africa and Zanzibar in 1873, by G. Keith Gordon, a junior officer on the ship which was involved in the suppression of the local trade in enslaved Africans. The account was written in 1932. Gordon was with Field on HMS FAWN and sent him the memoirs when Field contacted all the watchkeepers on FAWN on the fiftieth anniversary of the commissioning of the ship. The account contains details of the privations suffered during excursions after slave-carrying dhows, malaria treatments, local stories, surveying, and Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone.