, 1888-09-22
The Black Crusade.
Continued from AviS No. To

ludO SuAIOuIIu OlI SldtIO1, hCS1OCOf II
palently iu fight, coming towards our
Timb6e "a large battlement, made of clay,
surrounding the mission and intended to
shelter negroes, in case of danger). a
slave trader, half caste, from Tanganlka,
cOmmandinga crowd of ROuga a Rouga (ban-
ditti), armed with the latestri1eS, is scour-
ing the country. Many natives are running
in the direction of our Station.
Towards 3 o'clock, another crowd OF
half castles and negroes, equally armed,
appear on the heights. this side of the
LarvOn river all our converts, alarmed,
rushed towards OGr Timb6e. 1t is MOham-
med's troops, flying a red flag, busy max
ing their razZia and chasing deSpairing
fugitives, through the high grass of the
valley. About twenty of our negroes,
armed, escorted the Revd. Superior and
Father Wimke, who have determined to
march against the slave traders, III order
to check them, but, at that moment, they
are reinforced by another crowd of about
fifty ROmga ROuga. However, our SOrtle
prevented them from invading our BOma,-
(anOther name for our battlement.) The
f~ugitives rush towards us, being we'll
aware, that if they remain outside, they
will be made slaves, or murdered unmer-
cifully. About one thousand people are,
in that way, protected. During the whole
night the Wangwana are plundering, eX~
terminating and turning villages. One OF
the chiefs, Bwana-MaSOudi in his uniform
of commander, warns us, that 1t Is by ORDER
Of his HighneSS the Sultan Of Zanzibar
Said Bargasl, (whO died since, that they are
sent to fight and capture the negroes OF the
country, but, that their orders compel them
to respect the Whites.
Sunday, 4th December, at Z in the morn
ing, we all say our mass. ReVG. Superior
and Father Winke, went to the half-caSte
chief, in order to reprOaCh him with his
cruelty, but far from listening to them, he
went ON boastingly to recount the numerous
parts of the country that he had plundered
and d%ep0pulatpd, in the North, ROumanda;
on the lakes, Kivo and Cangaro, the Man
gema, POumgabenba, PObehdjive &c', ne.
In the evening, we witnessed the awful
scene of d razZia of slaves all around, vii
lagos are burning and people IN flight. \
crowd Of RO~nga-ROuga hunt the hills ana
flats Of the MaOngolO river, where the flu
gitiyeS are hiding themselves: IN the eve
ming, they return with women and chill
dteu, the men have been murdered.
In the evening Of that gloomy Sunday
which will never pass out OF our minds,
the white Father sent to the Arab
camp. The chief was unable to com
manU respect from his crowds or
and refused to surrender the captiyeS, wo.
men and children, naturally, unless re-,
deemed.
All that the fathers possess will be given
and that will not be sufficient to redeem
all. More than 800 victims of that bloody
trade, will be dragged away by force,
chained and coupled, in the midst of cries OF
despair. ApOOr old woman, as she pass
cd before father jerome, chung to his
gown, crying out for help. We had no more
means to redeem her and had the painful
regret to see her 20, dragged away, with a
rope around her neck. On starting, the
banditti sat fire to the village. Another
poor woman, in the family way, resisted,
not allowing herself TO be chained-she
prayed and begged, one 0ftbem discharg-
ed his revolver into her breast. IN a dying
state, d prey to the most fearful agony, she
was delivered on the spot, of a dead child.
The fathers removed her to the Mission,
where as she had already been taught III
the faith, she was baptized and died.
Those expeditions, says Father Monet,
i'll his Diary, are like air pumps of He'll,
they create a vacuum around us.
All the villages, where up to yesterday
we taught, are now vast SOlitudeS.
He finally adds. "when shall a Euro,
pean Power, whichever it may be, destroy
that cursed trade. Some troops and Cen
krol A fcioo would no Fron,t fo~ ovar IF fhA