The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-03
TIPPU lib, The AFRICAN,
THE GREATEST OF SLAVE AID
IVORY TRADERS,
AID the Richest Man In Central AZ
riea-His Power Over the Natives
-stanley's Friend.

The wealtbieet msn in Central
Africa 10 now en- his way to the Indiao
ocean in resp )nse TO q letter from the
cui'an OF Z'rzlbar requesting visit
from him, .ays the New York Sun
Hi' Uame is Tippu Tih, and he lives no.
far from Nyangwe, the great trading
point OF many black tribes
ON the upper Congo. Readers
OF African books Of travel have
heard q good deal of Tippu lib,
and % recent years have greatly IN.
creased his power and wealth we are
likely to hear much OF him. Tippu
Tib Is only 40 years old, "a black as
coal, and of Degroid blood, which
mesns that he CONES OF an adm xture
of the coast tribes Of e st Africa, and
has also very little Arab b'ood in his
veins. He hss been in Cen raj Africa
for twenty-five yesrs, ard is today the
greatest slave aid ivory trad n in the
world. He has oufstripped all his
competitors through sheer force OF To-
ielleet and strength OF character. AS
long sgo az the time when Cameron
Introduced him to our notice he visit
ed Nyaogwe and tod the Bullying
Arab traders there that if they d d
4 OF leave certain naive allies of his
sloue 1t would be the worse TO-
them. They LIST no time in plcdging
eternal PEACE with Tippu r b
Snd oil his fisndf. OAme,oi,
siys Tipgu lib vas tie Rteate {
dandy he saw among tie tradere ot
Africa, aud thai, although OF neyroid
blood, he wss thorough Arab in
maaners and ideSs All of his viii e
visitors speak Of tho eltgSrce # bis
Arab tire and 0f his courtly and
affahle bearing Stanley says that at
his FIRST meeting with Tippu lib he re-
gtroed him SIS the mt 81 remarkable
man he had mot among the ArAbe,
Wa Swshli, and half cast g of Afric-.
Lieut.. Van Gele, Of the C0Bgo Sat-,
who met Tppu lib in Janusry last,
says he was surprised by the extent Of
b information on European pics
He was fsmiiiar with even occurring
In Europe, and YVES gar ieulsrly IN er-
ested in tho Eog'ish, Germans aud
B"lgians. "rhe que tons he ssked
me-" says Van Gele, Showed
that h~ is neither an ignorant
man nor one OF ordinary mind :"
He said he intended some osy 10
20 TO Europe, visit the King of the
B.lgians, and ALTO spend soms time in
Cons' u nople. Iu Tippu Tbs homs,
sou b of Nysngwe, Cameron says that
large gang of slaves walking about in
chains met his eye at every turn. They
were leadiag easy lives, were well fed,
and he saw no ects OF cruelty there.
All bad been veins, however, of the
crying wrongs that ara still dec mating
the simple ssvages OF Africa.
They had been surpr sod in
their pescsful homeG By the sud-
den n,laugtt Of Tlppu Tbs ruthless
soldier SLAYER, who had burned their
hu,s, killed their friends, and dragged
them of iuto CAPTIVITY. Tippu TITO ia
the moet rot, d Iepresentstlv. OF tho Q
men who are today il fl citing more sut-
ferpg upon their fellow creatures than
any other human beiuQs the profess
siDnal slave TIA iers of Africa Few OF
Ttppu Tbs slaves ever rssch the In
dian ocean. They sse sold among the
numerous tribes on the way TO
the sea. Large caravans, however,
richly laden with his ivory, are often
dispatched to the coast. II wss Tippu
Tlb who hep a Stanley stsrt down
the Co. 90 from Nyangve, the point
whers Livicgssone and Cameron were
d. fsated in their efforts to follow the
river farther. For some weeks sat-
ley's ltttl, party wss augm .nted by
ovsr 200 of Tippu 1io's mqn.
Twenty very datk hes uties from the
great Traders harem sccompa MED
b m on lhs hls first trip down the
Corgr, VIII re he is now in absolute
control of the river and sdj Dining ter
ritories for about $50 niles below
Nyaugwe. It WAS his slave pen near
Stanley tails in which $500 wrstched
csptives were foond two y ar5 ago
when the agents of the Internal onal
Association reached that poior.
For mary miles below these
ia Is Stanley was erased by la'gs
fl,.ts OF csnoes, and hi, party suffered
Severely from he lanGes and arrows of
tho INST fsroci us savsges whom
he met on the Congo. These natives
are among the most pea 'ea lie on the
Congo now, and one good reason is
that thev have no wespous t, fight
with. They have ali boon dis
armed by Tippu lib for a dis
lance of about eighty miles along
the river fJr daring to attack SONS
Of his meu. D. Lspz, tie explorer,
wrote from Stanley falls in March
las, that b tween the falls aud the
AIaSt m river the natives were inca
pable Of m kim any resistance. Zone
can rarely find among them, he writes,
"a lance or any other weapon except
small knives." DR. Lens adds that
"the IL fluencs Of the opulAS Tppu
lib is fac greater all through this p
gion than that OF the free Congo State"