The Brookhaven leader., 1885-10-15
RAIDS OF THE SLAVE DEALERS. Y
wbst Stanley Says of Arab Cruelty In
the Congo Country.

IHatton's Review OF Stanley's New Bookl
Tue upper country of the Congo has
for years been subjected to the raids Of
the Arab slave dealers---the same set Of
inhumRn banditti against whom Gordon
defended Khartoum, the same class
against whom Gen. Wolseley went forth
in the Soudan. Stanley for days steamed
past sacked and burning villages, and
his description of the iendish work OF
the Arabs is heartrending, and shoull
set all Christendom in league againSt
the hellish business which no country
except England has as yet tackled in
downright earnest. Stanley camped
near an Arab stronghold. This is his
summary Of the results of the brutal
raiders:
"The slave-traders admit they have
only $500 captives in this fold, yet the'
ave raided throueh the lenCth an1
breadth Of a country larger than Ireland,
bearing fire and spreading carnare with
lead and iron. 10th banEs of the river
show that 119 villages and forty districts
have been devastated, out of which is
only educed This scant profit Of 2, 300 fc-
males and children, and about 1000
tusks of ivoryl The spears, swords,
bows, and tie quivers of arrows show
that many adults have fallen. Given that
those 119 villaras were peopled only by
1000 each, we have on Y profit of 2 per
cent; and by the time all these captiTes
have been subject to the accidents of the
river yoyar, to Eirundu and Nyangwe,
Of camp life and IFS harsh niseries, to
tho havoc Of smallpox, and the pests
which miserics breed, there will on'y re-
main scant per cent. upon the bloody
venture.
''They tell me, however, that the con-
voys already arrived at Nyanrwe VII
slaves captured in the interior have been
as c-eat a3 thC.r present band. Tive ex
pea. ions have come and gone with til r
booty Of ivory and slaves, and these L 20
expeditions have now completely weeded
o large territory described above. II
uach expedition h~5 been as successful
as this, the slave-traders have been
c-~hled to obtain 5000 women ar
.dren safe to Nyangwe, Kirundu, and
\ 'ondo, above the Stanley falls. T'us
8, out of an assumed million will be
at the rate Of ! per cent, or five slaves
out f 1000 people.
~ nis is poor profit, out of such large
waste Of life, for originally we assur :
10 slaves to have mustered about II, 00l
in number. To obtain the $500 slaves
t of the 11S villages they must have
IL I round number of $500 people,
le 1900 more died by the wayside
turou h scant provisions and the in
tens. y If their hopeless wretchedness.
] w mary are wounded and die in the
forest, or droop to death through
n overwhelming sense of their calami
IS we do not know, but if the above
f 1ures are trustworthy then the outcome
f n the territory with its million o.
souls is 5000 slaves, obtained at the
crr d expense of 33, 900 livesl
"And such slaves! They are females
or young children who cannot run away
or who with youthful Indifference vii
socn forget the terrors of tEoir capture
Yet each of the very smallest infants
has cost the life Of father and perhap;
his three stout brothers and three grown
up DAUGHTERS, An entire family of 81,
sclls have been done to death to obtair
that small, feeble, useless child"