The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-17
. RAIDS or THE SLAVE DEALERS. \
what Stanley Says of Arab Cruelty In
the Congo Country.


rHstton,s Review of stanley's New Book.l
The unner country of the Congo has
for wears been subjected 10 the raids Of
the Arab slave dealers---the same set OF
inbnman banditti against whom Gordon
defended Khartoum, the same class
against whom Gen. Wolseley went forth !
10 the Soudan. Stanley for days steamed |
past sacked and burning villages, and
his description of the fendish work OF
the Arabs is heartrending, and should
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 ms
summary of the results OF the brutal
raiders:
s'The slave-traders admit they have
only 2, 300 captives in this fold, YET they
have raided through the length AM
breadth of a country larger than Ireland,
bearing fire and spreading carnage with
lead and iron. 10th banks Of the river
show that 118 villages and forty districts
have been devastated, out of which Is
only educed this scant profit OF 2,3OO re-
males and children, and about 1000
t1sks of ivory! The spears, swords,
bows. and the quivers Of arrows snow
that many adults have fallen. Given tnaG
these 11S villages were peopled only by
1. 600 each, we have only profit Oh per
cent; and by the time all these captlyes
have been subject to tho accidents Of the
river yoyace to Eirundu and Nyangwe,
of camp life and its harsh miserIes, To
the havoc of smallpox, and the pests
which miseries breed, there will on'i re
main a scant per cent. upon the bloody
venture.
ssThey tell me, however, that the con
VOWS already arrived at Nyangwe WIZ
slaves captured in the interior have Deei
"a great as their present band. live eX
ped4tions have come and gone with tn Il
booty of ivory and slaves, and these L =
expeditions have now completely weeot'
the large territory described above. !
each expedition his been as success1u
as this, the slave-traders have pee
aroI,led to obtain 5000 women an
sh,.,lren safe to Nyangwe, Kirundu, an
bondo, above the Stanley falls. n
<, out of an assumed million will
at the rate of I per cent, or i've slave
out IF 1000 people.
s'This is poor profit, out of such arE
waste of life, for originally we assun
"a slaves to have mustered about 10, OF
in number. To obtain the $500 slav
e1t of the 118 villages they must ha'
It a round number of $500 peopl
lie 1900 more died by tne ways!
through scant provisions and the /
tensity of their hopeless wretchedne;
How many are wounded and die in t
forest, or droop to death throul
an overwhelming sense OF their calan
ties we do not know, but if the abo
fvures are trustworthy then the outcoI
from the territory with its million
souls is 5000 slaves, obtained at {
cruel expense of SO, 600 hvesl
"And such slavesl They are fema
OF young children who cannot run ava
OF who with youthful Indifference
soon forget the terrors of their capttu
Yet each of the very smallest 1nta
has cost the life of father and perhi
bis three stout brothers and three groN
up daughters An entire famil y OF
souls have been done to death TO o0t
that small, feeble, useless child"