The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-30
A RICH AFRICAN.
Tippu Tib, the Greatest Slave and Ivory
 Trader in the World.

Tippu Tib, the Greatest Slave and Ivory
 Trader in the World.
 The wealthiest man in Central Africa is now on his way to the Indian Ocean in response to letter from the Sultan of Zanzibar requesting avisit from him. His name is Tippu lib. and he lives not far from Nyangwe, the great trading point of many black tribes on the upper Congo. Readers of African books of travel have heard good deal of Tippu lib, and as recent years have greatly increased his power and wealth. we are likely to hear much of him.
 Tippu lib is only forty-ive years old, black as coal, and of negroid blood, which means that he comes of an ad- mixture of the coast tribes of East Africa and has also very little Arab blood in his veins. He has been in Gen. traI Africa for twenty-five years, and is to-day the greatest slave and ivory trader in the world. He has outstripped all his competitors through sheer force of intellect and strength of character. As long ago as the time when Cameron introduced him to our notice he visited Nyangwe and told the bullying traders there that if they did not leave certain native allies of his alone it would be the worse for them. They lost no time in pledging eternal peace with Tippu Tib and all his friends.
 Cameron says Tippu lib was the greatest dandy he saw among the trad CTS of Africa, and that. although of negroid blood, he was thorough Arab in manners and ideas. All his white visitors speak of the elegance of his Arab attire and of his courtly and affa- ble bearing. Stanley says that at his first meeting with TIppu lib he regard ed him as the most remarkable man he had met among the Arabs, Wa Swahili and half castes of Africa. Lieutenant Van Gale, of the Congo State, who met Tippu lib in January last, says he was surprised by the extent of his informa- ton on European topics. He was familiar with events occurring in Europe, and was particularly interested in the English. Germans and Belgians. '"The questions he asked me-" says Van Gale, showed that he is neither an ig- norant man nor one of ordinary mind" He said he intended some day to go to Europe, visit the King of the Belgians, and also spend some time in Constanti- nople.
 In Tippu Tib's home, south of Nyangwe, Cameron says that large gangs of slaves walking about in chains met his eye at every turn. They were leading easy lives, were we'll fed, and he saw no acts of cruelty there. All had been victims, however, of the crying wrongs that are still decimating the simple savages of Africa. They had been surprised in their peaceful homes by the sudden onslaught of Tippu Tib's ruthless soldier slaves, who had burned their huts, killed their friends and dragged them off into captivity. Tippu lib is the most noted representa- tive of those men who are to-day in- fiicting more suffering upon their fel- low-creatures than any other human beings-the professional slave-traders of Africa. Few of Tippu Tib's slaves ever reach the Indian Ocean. They are sold among the numerous tribes on the way to the sea. Long caravans, how ever, richly laden with his ivory, are often dispatched to the coast.
 It was Tippu Tib who helped Stanley start down the Congo from Nyangwe, the point where both Livingstone and Cameron were defeated in their efforts to follow the river further. For some weeks Stanley's little party was aug mented by over two hundred of Tippu Tib's men. Twenty very dark beauties from the great traders harem accom- panied him on this, his first trip down the Congo, where he is now in absolute control of the river and adjoining terri tories for about three hundred and fifty miles below Nyangwe. It was his slaye-pen near Stanley falls, in which