New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-27

A CARAVAN OF SLAVES
know nothing distinguishes the uhcont"n'''
African from other degraded peoples more Ipan -.
tire reasonablepess and good 1t ia different ai'i
en-, boyo had wives children and relatives kdnappeu'
ht tba IL more than human nature civilized or saVase'
can bear In the chase in question lnu'So''. -
slaughter capture. and plumber took place. ,,
largo number of very fine young men were '"P'
and secured in chains and wooden yoRes' cai'o Ho"
tho marty Of syed Ben Habib, close to point Whero
buoe rent I'm the Mountain Of Rua allows t1e ~
the Great River Lualaba out OF Lake Mocra,, anu h
here had, for the first time an opppf fsn made
crying the difference between slaves anu IreeIhT
captive When fairly across the Lni.iDa ' ,he tronbe
bib thought his capes SAFE am gangs by taxi
ing off both chains and yokes Al 1ecaIsu lVs or,d
perfect willingness to follow sye1 ae clear Of two
mountains Many more seeing tne ptoa tir infancv
died They hnd no complaint but pain IN the
many believe the heart situated underneath the top OF
the sternum breast bone This TO me was tne hoaV
startling death ever They evidently die OF oroSen
heartedness ana the Arabs wondered seeing they nad
plenty eat others perish partenlary seb ny
line boy u years of age when asheH Were h he
felt ill., he put his hand correctly and exactly over ns
heart He kindly carried and as ne tS the
captorS are not unusually cruel They were caiious
Slavery hardened their hearts.
A SLAVE HUNTER
When sved An old friend Of mne crossed Lualaba he
heard was in the village, where COMPANY OF slave
traders were frousy assaulted for three days by justly
inoensed Bohemia. would not fight nor allow my peo-
pie TO fire If saw them, because Bohemia hau peen e
peciay kind to Syed sent party OF MS own peoPo
TO invite me to leave the village and come TO NM nc
showed himself the opposite OF hard-hear'eu' p".
slavery hardens Within petrhes the feelings, Is bad
for the victims and for the Ucmzers once " Is sau'
party Of twelve. who had been slaves IN ther own
cOuntry-Cunda COnda, OF when Cazempe 10 onloi
generalwere loaded with large, nefny 5WetcI
which were forked trees about three lnches III uhhet
and seven eight feet long Ihe neck was IsSI i
the fork and an IRON bar driven across one e td af
night to the ceiling Of the hut ana the heGh peus ~
in the fork and the slave hed on rom uooSiiS ~; nv
march two Jokes were tied together by tree ends anu
loads put on the slaves heads beside. woman having
an additional yoke and load and a , enlu on h9f
back, said to me passing, They are klng me; ID
and cSS bnt Shall die with three loads" The
spoke this did die poor little girl! Her chhu per
shed Of starvation.
THE BARBARITIEs OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
iuterceded for some but when unyoked, of they
bounded into the long grass and was greatly blamed
for caring in presence of the owners of the property
After the days march under brOng vertical sun, WIN
yokes and heavy loads the strongest we're exhausted
The party of u, above mentioned we're sitting down
singing and laughing. "Hallo" said I, "these fellows
take il kindly This must be the class for whom phllos
opher say slavery is the Datural state and went and
asked the cause of their mrth had asked aid OF their
owner as TO the meaning OF the word Rukha winch
usually means fly or leap Ihey were hsns IL
TO express the idea OF haunting, as gnOst, IN
flictng disease death, and the song was: YES me
going away TO Manga, abroad, or white mans and WIN
yoke on our neck but we shan have no yokes IN DEATH
and shall return and haunt and kill YOU" Chorus then
struck in which was the of the man who had sold
which at first / saw no bitterness. Tarembee,
an old man, at least loi years, being one OF
hun. Their refrain was as if6h OH OH bird OF free
on Oh! ohl" Laughter told not of mirh, but Of tears
such were oppressed ana they had no comforter he
that Is higher than the highest regardeth
STORIES OF cANSIBALIsM
About northeast OF Rua we have very large country
called Manyueina but by Arabs shortened into Many
ema 1t is but recently known The reputation which
the Manyemas enjoyed Of being cannibals prevented
halfcaste Arab traders from venturing among them
The circumstantial details Of practices as man-eaters
given by neighboring tribes were confirmed by two
Arabs who, years ago, went as far as Bambarre,
and secured the protection and friendship of the Moere
kue Lord Of Light Gray Parrott with Scarlet Tail, who
was a very superior man. The minute details
Of cannl6al orgies given by the Arabs attend
ants erred by the sheer excess of the shocking details
Had / believed a tenth of what | was told might
never have yentured an inch IN MANY ena but fortunate
ly my mother never frightened me in infancy with
"boge and stuff OF that SORT and am not liable to ts
of bOephOba, in which disease the Door patient believes
black skin. have heard that the complaint cpl
demic lately in Jamaica and the planters mothers have
much 10 answer for L hope the disease may never
spread in the United States. The people mere be-
leyed to be innocdlated with common sense
like Joining the Alpine Club in order TO be Landed you
don't break your neck where your neck ought to be
DrOkeni
This makes turn back 10 the watershed as
promised 1t is a broad belt of tree-covered upland
miles in length from west to east The general
altitude between 1000 and 5000 feet above the and
mountains stand at various points which be-
tween 6OOO and 1000 feet above the ocean level On this
watershed springs arise which well nigh innumer
hat is akp hal a man IN
them. These springs Join each other and form brooks
which again converge and become rivers, or
say streams Of 20, 40, or 50 yards that
never dry. All flow toward the center of
immense valley, which believe to be the Valley OF
the Nile. In this trough we have at first three large
rivers; then al unite into one enormous lacnstrne
river, the central line OF drainage which name Webbs
Luaaba In this great valley there five great lakes
one near the upper end is called Lake Bemba
properly BangweOlo but it is not source of the Nile
Tor no large river begins IN a lake. III Is supplied
by river called Chambezi, and several others which
may be considered sources and out Of 1t flows
the larger river, Luapula which enters Lake Moera
and comes out the great lake river Lnaaba TO form
great valley, lies Lake Lincoln, which l name as my
tribute Of love to the great and good America en-
JOyed LOT some time and lost One Of the three great
rivers mentioned, Bartle Freres Luira, falls INTO
komolondo, and Lake Lincoln becomes a lacustrine
lower down. and all these united the fifth which
the slaves sent instead Of mem forced me- to my great
the chronometers being all dead, IL is five degrees OF
longitude west OF spekes position at Uiji. This makes
is the western branch OF Pethericks Nile the Bazaar
Ghaza and not the eastern branch, which Speke Grant
and Baker believed 10 lie the river of Egypt II correct
TINS would make 1t the Nile, only after ALL the Bahar
GhaZal enters the eastern arm
EXPLORATION IN AN UNKNOWN DISTRICT
But though found a watershed between 10 degrees
and u degrees souththat is long way further up the
valley than any one had dreamed-and saw the streams
Of some 600 miles Of convergng center Of the
great valley, no one knew where 1t went after that de-
larture OF Lake Moea Some conjectured that 1t went
into Tanganyika but that to do so it must run up
HILL Others imagined that it might flow into the Allan
NC; It was TO fad ont where 1t actually did