The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-24
RAIDS Or THE SLAVE DEALERS. \
What Stanley Says of Arab Cruelty IN
the Congo Country.

lHatton's Review of SANKEY'S New Book1
The upper country of the Congo has
for years been subjected to the raids of
the Arab slave dealers---the same set of
inhuman 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 fiendish work of
the Arabs is heartrending, and should
set all Christendom in league against
the hcllish 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 havJ
only ?, 500 captives in this fold, yet thef
Lave raided throurh the length and
breadth Of a country larger than ireland,
bearing fire and spreading carnage with
lead and iron. Both banks of the river
show that is villages and forty districts
have been devastated, out of which is
only educed this scant profit Of 2, 800 fe-
males and children, and about 1000
tusks of ivory! The spears, swords,
bows, and the quivers of arrows show
that many adults have fallen. Given that
these lis villages were peOpled only by
1000 each, we have only profit of 2 per
cent; and by the time all these captives
have been subject to the accidents of the
river VOYAGE 10 kirundu and Nyangwe,
Of camp life and its harsh mscries, to
the havoc of smallpox, and the pests
which miseries breed, there will only re-
main a scant per cent. upon the bloody
venture.
''They tell me-. however, that the con
voys already arrived at Nyangve with
slaves captured in the interior have been
as great as Their present band. Five ex-
petitions have come and gone with tt +
booty of ivory and slaves, and these lie
expeditions hive now completely veeded
, large territory described above. Ii
ZACH expedition h3 been as successful
rs this, the slavc-traders have been
enHhled to obtain 5000 women and
dren safe to Nyangwe, Kirundu, and
y condo, above the Stanley falls. Thus
SEQ out of an assumed million will be
at the rate of ] per cent, or five slaves
out of LOCO people.
''Ihis is poor profit, out of such largo
waste of life, for originally we assume
tho slaves to have mustered about 10, 600
in number. To obtain the 2, 800 slaves
{ It of the 118 villages they must have
: t round number of $500 people,
lie / 300 more died by the wayside
through scant provisions and the in
;ensity of their hopeless wretchedness.
l. ow many are wounded and die in the
forest, or droop to death through
overwhelming sense of their calami-
ios we 90 not know, but if the above
f -ures are trustworthy then the outcome
G +l,o r., Of
souls is 5000 slaves, obtained at the
cruel expense of SO, 900 lives!
And such slaves They are females
or young children who cannot run away,
or who with youthful Indifference viii
soon forget the terrors of their capture.
vt each of the vCGy smallest infants
has cost the life Of a father and perhaps
bis three stout brothers and three grown
up daughters. An entire family of six
souls have been done to death to obtain
that small. feeble. useless child