The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-31
DIR, LIVINGSTONE.
His Views on the Slave Trade I'm An.
other Letter TO Mr.. Bennett.

New YORK, July 26.-Dr. Living
stone, in another letter to Mr.. Bennett,
speaks as follows of the slave trade:
The whole traffic, whether by land
or ocean, is a gross outrage on the COM
mon law of mankind. 1t is carried on
from age to age, and in addition to the
untold evils it inhicts. presents almost
insurmountable obstacles to the inter
course between different portions OF
the human family.
This open sore is partly owing to
human cupidity, and partly to the igno-
rance OF the more civilized of mankind
to the blight which lights chiefly on
the more degraded piracy on the high
seas. In now trying to make the
Eastern African slave trade better
known to Americans, | indulge the
hope that I am aiding, though in
small degree, the good time coming
uhon slavOry 90 we'll ae piracy Will be
chased from the world.
Many have but a faint idea of the
evils that trading in slaves infiict on the
victims and authors OF its atrocities.
Most people imagine that negroes. after
being brutalized by a long course Of
servitude, with but few ameliorstiug in
fluences that elevate the more favored
races, are fair average specimens OF the
African man. Our ideas are derived
rom the slaves OF the west coast, who
have for years been subject to domestic
bondage and all the depressing agencies
of the most unhealthy climate. These
have told most iDjuriously on their
physical frames, while fraud and the
rum trade have ruined their moral ma
lures, so az not to discriminate differ
ences ofmonstrous injustice"
Here follows a description Of the
negroes, as DR.. Livingstone found them,
contrasted with those with whom
Americans are familiar, coming from
the west coast of Africa. The ancie t
Egyptian, with his large round black
eyes, full luscious lips, and somewhat
depressed nose, is far uearer the typical
negro than the West Coast African,
who has been debased by the unhealthy
land he lives in. The slaves generally,
and especially those on the west coast,
at Zanzibar and elsewhere, are extreme
ly ugly.
have no prejudice against their
color, and indeed any one who lives
long smoEe them forgets they are black,
and fees that they are just fellow men,
but the low, retreating forehead, prog
nathous jaws, lank heels, and other
physical peculiarities common among
the slaves and West African negroes,
always awaken some feeling Of aver
sion. would not utter syllable cali
culated to press down either class more
deeply in the mire in which it is al
ready sunk, but l wish to point out
that these are not typical Africans any
more than typical Englisbmen, and
that the natives on nearly all the high
lands of the interior continent are, as
rule, fair average specimens OF human.
ity. 80. &c.. a... .-...
happened to be present when all the
head men Of the great Chief Msama,
who. lives west OF the south end Of
TansyauySa, had come together to
make peace with certain Arabs who
had burned. their chic town, and l am
certain one could not see more finely
formed, intellectual heads in any as.
sembly in London or Paris, and the
faces and forms corresponded finely
with the we'll shaped heads.
Msama himself had been q sort of
Napoleon for fighting and conquering
in his younger days. He was exactly
like an anc ent Assyrisn, sculptured on
Nineveh marble, as Nimrod aud others,
and he showed himself to be one OF
ourselves by hsbitually indulging in
copious rotations OF beer called pombe.
Many OF the women are very pretty,
aud like all ladies would have been
much prettier had they only let them
selves alone. ~
They are not black, but Of q Ii ht
brown color. They have black eyes,
beautiful foreheads, nicely-rouuded
limbs, we'll shaped forms, and small
hands and feet, but adorn themselves
by cling splendid teeth to points like 9
cats teeth, and tatooing their bodies
and sticking pierced glass through their
noses. ~. ....... ..
Casembs's queen. Mosris Nyombe,
would be esteemed real beauty either
in London, Paris on, New York, and yet
she had . small hole through the car