, 1872-11-06

Ghankeltos and Gallas are much Bonehs allei
for their beauty and for tnalr t,onz s1pev boy
will sell for $50 to s1oo. The e. gl'rls g';e
fetch more, because they are wanted 1or tne
harem. Traders will take away girls wnen lney
can get them. When a chief makes war az on "
another he makes it an ob]ec1 1o Ga.s I1aoas nc
many girls as he can. He plumbers me & VILLAGES ta
and kidnaps the younger natives and Sells them,
retaining the older ones to work as :, hls own
slaves. These people are sublece u s1o tapse 1's
sinian King. when he finds 1t necessary ~ clas-
tise them for misdeeds; but, Of course, when
h;s hno +roons 1, Ieavc they are their own masters
aeain, THESE things occur in u part OF Abys-
sinia which the King claims. but not among LIS
Christian subjects: -, 4,,o
When asked whether he are ss taken in
liz war md sold by the chiefs WHO. captured
tl.an, r. file traders, General NrkhaIn, IN sub
stance. su answered: "No. You must understand
Fiat after Mr. Stanley returned from the dlscoV-
oayynine the save-trade of East Africa. DR.. Liv-
;nrstone had also informed the Foreign Office
~ to the slaye-trade going on in the interior.
Tier Majeaty's gun-b0ats kept SO close watch
that it was impossible to get slaves down to tue
At At the interview between the Sultan and
7sa Tag made e'SD1 hheavs, rnsn an Understanding md
was, believe, come to respecting the slaVe-
trade. The Mussulmans Of Turkey and EGYPT
AAA-A~
for the real Turks will not do any menial SER
yice. These 900 or 90,000 slaves are imported
aud brought up to the Mohammedan faith, and
are employed in doing the dirty work. Inc
slaves that are not taken in war are bartered 1or
with tie peasants, who will steal and sell them.
Suppose you are slave merchant, and know
where there are three or four good Looking glfs
II steal them and sell them to you. One
man, who may have children Of his own,
! will go and steal the children Of another
| I,o trHfGr
! has attendants with him, and mules and camels,
| and he knows how to got slaves and carry them
off, The law is so strict, that any man, whether
D Christian or Mohammedan, found IN Abyssln1a
selling slave, is hanged on the hrat tiee' VIII.
out judge or jury. Whoever catches him hahgs
him up, and there is no more about it; and there
| he STAYS until he falls away piece BY piece 80
long as Bogos was in the power OF the AlnS OF
Abyssinia, they could not go that way. Il they
were stopped there they would have to take an
other and dangerous road across the wilder
ness They are checked on the one hand by the
Dritish gua-boats of Zanzibar, and would be
checked on the other by Bogos.
Il q slave-dealer takes slaves from one VtHaSe
| and carries them through another, tho 1nhap1-
tants of the second village have genera1iy nc
chance to rescue them, because the leaders, At
tendants are numerous and we'll armed. Single
lender will buy, according to his means, IRON
fifty to sixty slaves and br1ng them hn on sne
many at once for fear white man should sec
them and give information against them, anc
then they would be stopped-beeause lsmal
Pasha has ordered ostensibly that the slave trade
shall be put down: GeneIal "a hrkRhm Hhad;1t -
secretly favors the slaye-trado while outward.
disayowing it. Tie slaves are brought down tt
the coast from the Woolah Gallas country ant
the White Nile-about ferty-elght or MY d aays
treated very well on the way by the saye,dealers
because they fetch better price. Il the slavt
il of the Nubian race, he has to do al the d1rt
work for the others he is considered OF an ~
ferior class, and does not fetch so much as u
, copper-colored. The Nubians are a fat-nosed
thick-lipped and curly-haired people. stronl
Nubian girls for servants bring more than the boys
Tho Gallas are of reddish copper Color
some OF Them remarkable for beauty OF form
. aud they fetch very high price when they ar
: taken to Turkey for the harcm. These girls at
E taken so Young that they hardly know thel
! original country, and adopt the Alussulma
faith. AS to language, says Geneaal hlrkhan II.
the trader speaks kind Of gibberish. which th
t neopie understand. OF course, he knows th
, country we'll No trader from England could
} through there There are. l suppose, about te
} languages in those countries, nll mixed up u
sether Tho King Of Abyssnla. speaks NV
r Girls and boys, when they arc taken away,
not offer to make any resistance; they 40 NJ
r know a,,ythiug about it. There are no tradition
: in their Villages US to children being taken or
= slnye-lealers, or as to the Inducements held OF
: to them that they will bo taken to nne count
t where they Gun live at ease. suppose am OF
t of their own countrymen probably have
- enemy WHO has two or three children, I {
It quietly and take theae children, aud sell tue
;, to the Blaye-dea1er, aud he sends them away
Q fla children aro lost and there is no more abo'
j it. There is great jealousy and suspicion b
II tween household and household and it is tn
9 that these fcuds and thefts arise Gener
d Kirkham expresses d hope, that the pno4cattl'
% of these facts confirming those made by L1Eln
Il stone, Baker and Stanley, may more urgent
:s than ever direct public attention to the lnlqu
ous Nile alave-trade."