Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-11-14
and there.h be stays unfit hefaHs away,
piece by pieceao So long AS Bogos was

I and thereshe stays unfit he falls away,
piece by piece So long AS Bogos was
in the power ofthe King of Abyssinia
they could not go that way. If they
were stopped there they would have to
take another and "a dangerous road
across the wilderness. They are checked
on the one hand by the British gum
boats off Zanzibar, and would be
checked on tile other in Boses. ."lh -
If slave-dealer takes from one VIII
lage and carries them through another,
the inhabitants of the second. village
have geheraHy no chance 10 rcsc,fe them
because the Ieaaersi attendants are nu-
merous and well armed. A single leader
will buy, according to his means, from
fifty to sixty slaves, and bring them
through the country in that way. They
do not bring down many at once for
! fear white man should see them and
give information against them, and
theft they weaId be Stopped dEbecause
Ishmail Pasha has; ordered ostensibly
that the slave trade shall be put down.
Gen, Kirkham is unreservedly of the
opinion that the Khedive secretly ia
vors the slave-trade, while outwardly
disavowing it. The slaves are brought
down to the coast from the Woolah
Gallfs country and the White Nile
about forty-eight or fifty days journey
from the coast. The better portion are
treated very well on the way by the
slave-dealers, because they will fetch
better price. III the slave is of the MI
bian race, he has TO do al the dirty
work for the others; he is considered
Of an inferior class, and does not fetch
so much as the copper-colored. The
Nubians are a fiat-nosed, thick-lipped,
and curly-haired people. Strong Nu-
bian girls, for servants, bring more than
the boys. The Gallas are of a reddish
copper-color, some of them remarkable
for beauty of form; and they fetch a
very high price when they are taken to
Turkey, for the harem. These girls are
taken SO young that they hardly know
their original country, and adopt the
Mussulman faith AS to language, says
Gen. Krkham, the trader speaks kind
of gibberish which the people under
stand. i"Of course, he knows the coun-
try well. No trader from England
could go through there. There are, !
suppose, about ten languages in these
countries, all mixed up together. The
King of Abyssinia speaks five. Girls
and boys, when they aretaken away, do
not offer to make any resistance; they
do not know anything about it. There
are no traditions in their villages as to
children being taken, off by slaye-deal
ers, or as to inducements held out to
them that they will be taken to a fine
country where they can live at ease.
Suppose am one of their own country
men; probably I have an enemy who
has two or three children. / go quiet
ly and take these children and sell them
to the slave-dealer, and he sends them
away; the children are lost, and there
is no more about it. There is greatjeal-
ousy and suspension between house
hold; and it is thus that these ,feuds and
thefts arise" Gen. Kirkham expresses
a hope that the publication of these
facts, confirming those made by Living
stone, Baker, and Stanley, may more
urgently than ever direct public atten-
tiOn to the iniquitous Nile slave trade.