, 1872-11-15
SUFFERING AFRICA.

from the centre Of the continent and the region
Of the White Nile to Kassala, and are hurried on
to the slave market at Metemmeh, to be resold
for shipment to Jedda- Foreign Consuls at
the passage Of slaves down the Nile, while Sir
Samuel Bakers expedition has done much also
TO Increase the difficulties which beset the tran-
sit OF slaves acro5s that route. The Shankelto
grounds Tor the nefarious and infamous prao-
tice Of the trafhcers in human beings, these
provinces being close to Boyos, through which,
since the annexation by the Khedive, slaves cen
be safely passed to Massowah, thence to be-
shipped for the Arabian coast Shankelto is 8
district bordering on Abyssinia proper, and is in
habitel by 8 wandering tribe resembling Gyp-
sies, who are regarded as the Bedouins Of Abye-
sllia. shankelto, according to General Kirk
ham, belongs OF right to Abyssinia, and about
to send down thither one Of his Generals with
large force, completely to devastate the country
Tor the murders that ware frequently done there
On his merchants and priests--there being
churches there for the baptism Of the people.
The following is the fashion in which the
shareholders capture their victims: They 70
into village, take with them silks, or beads, or
bits Of tin, and ornaments. They exchange
these things for slaves, or whatever they cIn
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, if female DO Of copper
color and good features, she will bring as much
Us $40, OF about E28-thas is, at the market in
Met emnaeth, which is q Wholesale market. The
retail price is according to the state Of the mar
Let to which they are first taken When sold in
the second market they vary in price. II q man
took fancy to female slave, ha would per.
hnps give S100 mora than another man.
The Shankeltos and Gallas are much sought at-
ter for their beauty, and for their superiority to
otf fhau a a+r how will cn1t frr
to S1o0. The girls fetch moro, because they
IRE wanted for the haIen. Traders viii TAXA
arTay girls when they can get them. WheH
chief makes war on another, he makes it m OBJ
plumbers the villages and carries eff the younger
natives and sells them, retaining the older ones
to work rs his slaves. These people are subject
to the Abyssinian King, when he finds it n=ce5-
ss1y to ehastise them for misdeeds; but, cf
COURSE, when his troops leave they ere their
own masters again. These things occur in d
part Of Abyssinin which the King claims, but
not among his Christian subjects.
When asked if he believed tha: all the $4,000
OF 1000 annual ceptiyes were IN the war aud
sold by the Chiefs who captured them to the
traders, General KirEham, in substance, an
swered: s'You must understand that utter Mr.
Stanley returned from the discovery CT Living
stone he brought much to light concerning the
lad also Informed the Foreign Office as to the
slave trade going on in the Interior. Her Maj :
esty's gunboats Kept SO close watch that it was
impossible to get slaves down to tbs coast d.
the interview between the Sultan and Ismau
Pasha, when the latter was made Khedive, an
understanding was, I believe, come to resFact-
ing the slave trade. The Nussu1maos Of Tur-
do their wo5rE-for The real TurEs vii not do
any menial service. These $4,000 OF
$4,000 slaves are imported and brought
up to the Mohammedan faith, and en-
are not taken in war are bartered for with peas-
ants, who will steal and sell them. Suppose you
are g slave merchant, and know where there
are three or four good-looking girls-l steal
them and sell them to you. One man, who may
have children Of his Own, will go and steel 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 of. The law is 60 strict
that any man, whether 3 Christian or Alohanl-
lnednn, found in Abyssnic selling slave is
hanged on TIE first tree, without judge OF jury.
catches him hangs him up, end there ia
40 more ebout it; and theIe he stays until he
telia away, piece By piece. So long = Rogos was
2ot go tLat way. II they we're stopped there
hey would have to take another and dangerous
:oad acrcss the wilderness. They ere checked,
IN the one hand, by the British grnhoats oil
Zanzibar, and would Be- checked, on the other, in
5osos."
II slaye-driver takes slaves from one vile
2ge and caIries them through another, the ip-
,abitants OF the second village have generally
attendants are numerous and wall-azmed- 4
:ing]e leader will buy, according to his means,
rom fifty to sixty slaves, and bring hem
through the country in that way. They do not
ring do|n many at once for fear white man
should see them and give Information against
aen, and then they would,be stopped-because
small Pasha has ordered ostensibly that the
lave trade shall be put down. General Kirk
aam is unreservedly of the opinion that the
sasar1 secretly faTors the slnEe trade, while sl
,rony1t down to the coast from the
Toolaa Gallas country and the White
'1e-about forty-eight or fifty days joa1'
ley from the coast. The better portion
callers, because they viii fetch a better price.
I the slave is OF the Nubian race, he has to 90
Il tho dirty work for the others he is consd-
:ed Of an inferior claszz, and does not fetch so
t'as-nosed, thick-ipped, and curly -haire1 peo-
1e. Strong Nubien girls, for servants. b.lns
aore than the boys. The Gallas are Of d RED
iah, copper color, some Of them renarksoia
or beauty Of form and they fetch q very msa
rico when taken to Turkey, for the ha!en. rem
ara1y know their original country, and adopt
lo AIusselman faith. As to language, says
'eneral kirkham, the trader speaks .s mad
~ eibberish which the people undesstap1a7' ma17
o trader from England 3S,Li, go
trough there. There are, I s,appsss aooue
IL language in these countries, ali msed up up
'sether. The King of Abyssinia spcrss i've.
iris and boys, when they are take1I ,':y' 90
OF offer to make any resistance; theJ 40 -aa2 nGe
ons in their villages as to children bsing taken
Z By shareholders, Or as to the ir5Ecement7
ED out to them that they will be taken to tne
,untry where they can live at e5se. Suppose
am one of their OWL countrynen; probably
I'VE IN enemy who has two Or three Children;
go quietly and take these children and sell
en to the slaye-aea1er, and be sends them
ray; the children are lost, and there is 10 more
out 1t. There Is great Jealousy and suspicion
tween ea household md household; and It 1s
Us 81 that 7 these feuds and thefts arise Gene-
Al.knam II "a expresses hope that the Publiea-
aia4a u o. these facts, confirming those made BY
ntiE iune tsn BaEeE, and Stanley, na{ a more p ".
lqultous Nile slave trade
Blown Ashore.