The New York herald., 1877-10-10


chased TO complete the number OF domestic
servants. The buying or selling Of them IN
such quiet orderly manner does not strike one
as being specially repuIsive-rather more as an
exchange from one domestic service to another
wHoLEsALE AND RETAIL.
At Unyanyembe perhaps he may see sight
once in a while to provoke Indignation and dis
gust To witness it daily, however, the traveller
must have sharp eyes and exert himself in hot
climate little more than is desirable or comfort
able. In Uganda the trade begins to assume
wholesale character, yet 1t stl retains business
aspect, not particularly shocking TO any great ex-
tent, for the dismaites and heartrendings 1t pro-
yokes are all hushed up long before the slaves be-
come the property Of the Arabs The kings and
chiefs, 10 whose peculiar tastes such an extensive
aud singular trade Is owing, have long ago dried
the tears OF the captives by soaring their nerves
and severlng the chords OF sympathy and OF feel
ing by cruel means, SO that, except in inirequent
instances, there are no more tears to be shed or
power OF waling left when they begin to be driven
in iiocKs toward the Arab depots or the coast.
HERDS OF EBONY sKELRToNs
At Ujiji one sees slave market estabshed-not
o central market, as at Zanzibar, but In several
slave folds or slave pens, maintained by degraded
half-castes or demoalized Wajijl-whence they are
taken by those In need OF slaves for service for
retail sale. The objects OF, traffic, as they are
landed at the shore OF UjuI, are generally in ter
ribie condition, reduced BY hunger to ebony skele
tons--attenuated weaklings, unable to sustain
their large, angular heads. Their voices have
quite lost the manly ring; they are mere whines
and fnoans OF iespe sick Iolk. Scarcely one
Is able 10 stand upright; the back represents
an unstrung bow, with something Of the
serrated appearance Of o crocodile's chine.
Every part OF their frames shows the
havoc Of hunger which has made them
lean, wretched and in1rm creatures. Just here
could, II might, launch into vigorous abuse Of
the authors OF these crimes, and they deserve .
thousandfod more denunciation than can be In
vented by me or by any humane soul In Europe; but
have promised to be cool, precise and literal Yet
l may say that all the Satanic host protects them,
Tor It must be assuredly owing to the deep wiles OF
he'll and It's inhabitants that the people Of small
island ike Zanzibar are permitted to commit
crimes such as no European State understands.
EAMIsHING WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
The living skeletons described above have oil
been marched from Marungu to Ugubha; thence to
UjUi they were crowded IN canoes. When our
expedition crossed over to Ugubha we met 500
slaves OF exactly such o cast as already de-
scribed, principally children and women. do
not mean to say that these 800 were all skeleton
ized thus by hunger There were afew-perhaps
nfty, perhaps more--who still possessed somewhat
OF rotundity IN their FORMS but these, was told
by the traders, sustained themselves by assiduou:
The canoes which brought the expedition to Ugubhs
returned to Ujiji with full cargoes OF slaves. Franl
PococL, my European servant. had often read II
English journals accounts OF the treatment and con
at Ugubha he said he never realized in his owl
mind what that treatment really was. Poo
Frank, obliged to be sent back to UJij
| to recover some deserters, had NOR
was obliged to take passage In heavily ioadet
slave canoe, wherein fifty little withered wretche
were crowded into mass like SO many starves
pigs Al the canoe was three days en- route Frank.
nerves we're terribly tortured
| THE HUMAN sPoIIs OF WAR
These slaves are the profitable result Of sys
tematic war wagcd upon all districts In the popu
lous country OF Marungu by bandittl. supported b!
Arab means, directly and indirectly. Directly, be
cause Arabs purchase the slaves taken in thcs,
wars for powder aud guns, by means OF which
the wars are sustained; and indirectly becaus,
there is no other market than the Arabs supply Il
relieve the bandtti Of the thousands which other
wise would have to be released from sheer want o
food.
YIpNAPrEKa
| These banditu are unyanweze, armed with
guns purchased at Unyanyembe and Bagamoyo
and perfectly acquainted with Arab commerce ant
the most profitable wares. They baud themselves
for the desperate purpose ca enslaving all tribes
| and peoples which are, from want OF means and
organization, too weak to resist them. No coun
try offers such teld for these gangs OF Eldnap
pers as Marnngu, where every small village is In
dependent and generally at variance with II
neighbor. Almost all the ad dult males are slain II
the most cruel manner and xheir bodies arr
arerward hacked and disme mbered and hung W
on trees along the road tha, the terror OF such
fate may render villages and districts not yet at
tackled more submissive anil unresisting. tn,
women and youths are TOO valuable to say, an,
the Arabs require them.
PRINCIPAL AND AGENT.
The owner Of 2So Of these roor, hungry, skcle
tonized slaves. whom we met at the Arab crossln,
place in Ugubha, was SAID bin S,lim, the Governo
Of Unyamyembe and the former chaperon OF Bur
ton and SpeKe their journey to Ujii In 1855 80