text:  A far more atrocious insult to the British flag in 1826 when a brig from the Mauritius had been piratically seized at Berbera (a port on the African coast just outside the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb ) and part of her crew murdered had been expiated by the submission of the offenders and the repayment of the value of the plunder by yearly instalments (see WELLSTED'S _Arabia_ vol