The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-27

The market with them is great institution, and
they work hard and carry far in order to have
something to sell. Markets are established
about ten or fifteen miles apart. There those
who raise cassava, maize. grain and sweetpota-
toes exchange them for oil, salt, pepper, fish
and other relishes. Fowls, also pigs. goats,
grass CLOTH mats and other articles change
hands All dressed in their best candy-colored,
many-folded kits that reach from waist to
knee, when two or three thousand are
together they form an interesting sight. They
enforce justice, though chiefly women,
and they are so eager traders that they set off
in companies by night and begin to run as
soon Us they come within the hum arising
from hundreds of voices. To haggle and
joke and laugh and cheat seem the dearest en-
joyments Of life. They confer great benefit on
each other. The Maneyema women are expert
divers for oysters, and they sell them and fish
in exchange for farinaceous food from the wo-
men in the East, the Lualaba, who prefer
cultvating the soil to fishing.
RESPECT FOR THE FEMALE SEX.
The Manyema have always told us that
women going to market are never molested.
When the men oftwo districts were engaged in
actual open hostiliies the women passed
through from one market to another I'M
harmed. To take away her goods, even in war,
was thing not to be done; but OF these market
women the half-castes directed their guns.
HAIF-CAsTE ouTRAaEs.
Two cases that came under my own observa-
ton were 80 sickening that cannot allow
my mind to dwell upon or write about them.
Many of both sexes were killed, but the
women and children chiefly made captives.
No matter how much ivory they obtained
these niger Moslems must have slaves, and
they assaulted market people and villages and
made captives chiefly Of women and children;
as it appeared to me, and because, as men ran
off at the report of guns, they could do it
| without danger
| had no idea before how bloodthirsty men
can be when they can pour out the blood Of
their fellow men in safety; and all this
carnage is going on in Manyema at the very
time write. 1t is the Banians, our pro-
tected Indian fellow subjects that indirectly
do it,
| CONCESSIONS TO THE ZANZIBAR SULTAN.
All we have conceded the Sultan Of Zanzi-
bar has been o right which it was not ours to
| give, of certain amount Of slave trading, and
that amount has been from $4,000 to 10000
| slaves year, as we have seen. These are not
traded for but murdered, for they ore not slaves,
but free people made captive. A Sultan with o
senoo of justice would. instead Of taking head
money, declare that oil were free as soon as
theyreached his territory; but Banians have
the Custom House and all the Sultan's rev.
enue entirely in their hands He cannot trust
his Mohammedan subjects, even of the better
class, to farm the income, because, as they
themselves say, he would get nothing in re-
turn but crop of lies. The Banians actu-
ally work the Custom House so as to screen
their own slave agents, and 80 long as they
have power to promote it their atrocious
system Of slavery will never cease for sake of
lawful commerce. 3
| PLAN OF REVENUE REFORM.
| 1t would be polite to insist that the Sui
tan's revenue by the Custom House should be
placed in the hands of IN English or American
merchant of known reputation and upright
ness. BY this arrangement the Sultan would
be largely benefited, legal commerce be ex-
allied to o position it has never held since the
Banians and Moslems emigrated into Eastern
Africa, and Christianity, to which the slave
trade is an insurmountable barrier, would find
an open door. DAVID LIVINGSTONE.
STANLEY IN PARIS.
His Retention bV the United