Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-06

ments They exchange these things for
slaves, or whatever they can get. The
merchants send the slaves quietly away
without much trouble, and eventually
they are trained as Mussulmans. They
are taken through Bogos to Massowah,
and they are sent thence to Jedda, whence
they are sent to Turkey by land. AS for
price, IL female be of copper color, and
good features, she will bring as much as
S14O, or about e2S-that is, at the market
in Metemmeth. which is Ia wholesale mar.
ket. The retail price is according to the
state of the market to which they are first
taken. When sold in the second market
they vary in price. If man took fancy
to female slave, he would perhaps give
500 more than another man.
The Shankeltos and Gallas are much
sought after for their beauty, and for
their superiority to the other tribes. A
strong boy will sell for 500 or $t00. The
girls fetch more because they are wanted
for the harem. Traders will take away
girls when they can get them. When a
chief makes war on another, he makes it
an object to carry off as many girls as he
can. He plumbers the villages and car
ries OFT the younger natives and sells
them, retaining the older ones to work as
his slaves. These people are subject to
the Abyssinian King, when he finds it
necessary to chastise them for misdeeds;
but, of course, when his troops leave,
they are their own masters again. These
things occur in part of Abyssinia
which the King claims, but not among
his Christian subjects.
When asked if he believed that all the
so, 200 or 10000 annual captives were in
the war and sold by the Chiefs who cap
tured them to the traders, General Kirk
ham, in substance, answered "You
must understand that after Mr.. Stanley
returned from the discovery of Living
stone he brought much to light concern
ing the slave trade of East Africa. DIR.
Livingstone had also informed the For
eign Office as to the slave trade going on
in the interior. Her Majesty's gunboats
kept so close watch that it was impos-
sible to get slaves down to the coast di-
rect; so they took them through to BOgos
At the interview between the Sultan and
Ismail Pasha, when the latter was made
Khedive, an understanding was, l be-
lieve, come to respecting the slave trade.
The Mussulmans of Turkey and Egypt
must have a supply of slaves to do their
work--for the real Turks will not do any
menial service These $4,000 or 90, 900
slaves are imported and brought up to
the Mohammedan faith, and employed
IN doing the dirty work. The slaves that
are not taken in war are bartered for with
peasants, who will steal and sell them.
Suppose you are slave merchant, and |
know where there are three or four good
looking girls-I steal them and sell them
to you. One man, who may have chill
dren of his own, will go and steal the
children of another person, as many as
he may get. The trader has attendants
with him, and mules and camels, and he
knows how to get slaves and carry
them off The law is so strict that any
man, whether a Christian OF Mohamme-
dan, found in Abyssinia selling slave is
hanged on the first tree, without Judge or
Jury. Whoever catches him hangs him
up, and there is no more about it and
there he hangs until he falls away, piece
by piece. So long as Bogcs was in the
power of the King of Abyssina they
could not go that way. If they were
stopped there they would have to take
another and dangerous road across the
They are checked, on the
one hand, by the British gunboats off
and would be checked, on the
other, in Bogos."
If a slave-driver takes slaves from one
village and carries them through another,
the inhabitants of the second village have
generally no chance to rescue them, be-
cause the leaders attendants are numer-
Gus 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 informa-
ton against them, and then they would |
be stopped-because Ismail Pasha has or
dered ostensibly that the slave trade shall |
be put down. General Krkham is unre-
of the opinion that the Khedive !
secretly favors the slave trade, while out |
wardly disavowing it. The slaves are |
brought down to the coast from the Woo |
lah Gallas 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 a better
price. If the slave is of the Nubian race,
he has TO do all the dirty work for the |
others; he is considered of an inferior |
class, and does not fetch so much as the |
The Nubians are fiat |
nosed, thick-lipped, and curly haired peo-
pie. Strong Nubian girls, for servants,
bring more than the boys. The Gallas
some of them remarkable for beauty
Of form; and they fetch very high |
price, when taken to Turkey, for the ha-
rem. These girls are taken so young that
they hardly know their original country,
and adopt the Mussulman faith. As TO |
language, says General Kirkham, the |
trader speaks kind of gbberisb which
the people understand. "Of course, he
knows the country 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 are taken away, do |
not offer to make any resistance; they do |
not know anything about it. There are |
no traditions in their villages as to chill |
dren being taken off by slave dealers, or
rs to the inducements held out to them |
That they will be taken to a fine country
where they can live at ease. Suppose l |
am one of their own countrymen; proba- /
bly, have an enemy who has two or three
children. go quietly and take these
children and sell them to the slave-dealer, |
md he sends them away; the children are
ost, and there is no more about it. There |
s great jealousy and suspicion between
household and household; and it is thus
hat these feuds and thefts arise" Gen
'ral Kirkham expresses hope that the
of these facts, confirming
hose made by Livingstone, Baker, and |
Stanley, may more urgently than ever di-
ect public attention to the iniquitous Nile
lave-trade.
Mr.. Blackmore, author of "Lorna
)arne" and the MAID of Sker," two of
he most successful Of English romances,
s a market gardener, and William Nor