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After years of painstaking research and sophisticated surveys, Jaco Boshoff may be on the verge of a nearly unheard-of discovery: the wreck of a Dutch slave ship that broke apart 239 years ago on this forbidding, windswept coast after a violent revolt by the slaves.
多年的潛心研究和詳盡調(diào)查也許即將會給雅戈•博肖夫帶來一個世人幾乎前所未聞的發(fā)現(xiàn)：一艘荷蘭販奴船的殘骸。在239年前，在這一帶風(fēng)險浪急的惡劣海岸，這條船在經(jīng)歷了一場激烈的奴隸暴動后，斷裂沉沒。
Boshoff, 39, a marine archaeologist with the government-run Iziko Museums, will not find out until he starts digging on this deserted beach on Africa's southernmost point, probably later this year.
博肖夫，現(xiàn)年39歲，海洋考古學(xué)家，在政府經(jīng)營的伊澤科博物館任職。他準(zhǔn)備今年晚些時候在非洲最南端這一帶荒涼的海灘開始發(fā)掘，在此之前不會有任何結(jié)果。
After three years of surveys with sensitive magnetometers, he knows, at least, where to look: at a cluster of magnetic abnormalities, three beneath the beach and one beneath the surf, near the mouth of the Heuningries River, where the 450-ton slave ship, the Meermin, ran aground in 1766.
利用靈敏的地磁測量儀，經(jīng)過三年努力，他弄清楚了該從哪兒著手——幾處地磁異�，F(xiàn)象集中的地方：三處在沙灘下面，一處在浪線以下，地點(diǎn)靠近霍寧格里斯河口，這就是450噸的販奴船——米爾明號——1766年擱淺的地方。
If he is right, it will be a find for the history books 一 especially if he recovers shackles, spears and iron guns that shed light on how 147 Malagasy slaves seized their captors' vessel, only to be recaptured. Although European countries shipped millions of slaves from Africa over four centuries, archaeologists estimate that fewer than 10 slave shipwrecks have been found worldwide. If he is wrong, Boshoff said in an interview, “I will have a lot of explaining to do. ”
如果他成功了，這一發(fā)現(xiàn)將載入史冊。如果他找到鐐銬、梭標(biāo)和鐵炮，從中可推斷出那147名來自馬爾加什的奴隸怎樣奪取人販子的船，后來又被制服的經(jīng)過，那就更要大書特書了。雖然歐洲國家在400年中從非洲販運(yùn)了數(shù)百萬奴隸，考古學(xué)家估計，全世界迄今找到的販奴船殘骸不到10艘。如果他不成功，博肖夫在接受采訪時說，“我就要作大量的解釋工作�！�
