The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-26


are szE.aszs A. Save eEseFsEsayS- Many
Arziss r these tawEfs have eTo<E r7ea
IL tie slaFe tTssle. Eassga, north 0s
I.Ske kseHgrsa, has become, through
she IN peEus iTIl parted By the Arab
~ aerEs. ore a he creates. centres
81 she slave trafEse an writing,
sars NJ soazEy As3se. z1thin a feT
ra-s4s * a market where hsmaR ch2t-
ieis are hozgAf and sod The slaves
~ this coantry are reek8leSl by
no .sAns4s Father boarGel. writing
fsnal tAe same place. says King
y eaura often sea1s on his slave raids
ar-E.ies e several thousands 81 men,
M hen tasy couse home they drive be-
fore shera often 500 70 600 slaves a.
the resaif q a single raid. usually OBJ
tanned Ia tae region north OF TGngaa-
yiEA. The king selects those he
z5shes 81 keep ter hiHaseli or to dis
triolfe zraosE his great ehiefs- and
scuds the resi 10 the Arab slave deal
e., who sweep them al CT either 70
ssli them or TIE coast 20 the dealers
V he sgp;4y the Ar4a5An market or 70
dispose o. taem II tie Egyptian >og-
G1a- Il j. a profitable business, which
surlcbes the Araa savers.
Missionary Praen, sho lives on the
Caravan route between TaborA and the
coast, write that the Arabs load their
nex slaves with produce from tie IL
tersor. try 70 palm them of a. porters
" ho are hired tor the occasion, and Il
j. aiiflcut 10 tel whether the men are
slaves on their first journey TO the
coast or regular carriers When ques-
iisned The captires az deny that they
are slave. a. they fear the wrath Of
their cruel master Where Mr..
Pruen liTes the slave trade Is inter
dirteG by the Sultan Of Zanzibar.
II j. on the north vest shores OF Lake
Nyas-a. that the white missionaries
aya trader with their native allies,
had several hard battles last spring
vita the Arab stealers, who
avowed their purpose u drive the
white oIt - Tie country. III last
account the white. happily, were
more than holding their own.
In az area. retehius nearly across
Africa. the @laye-~tealer-. who have
long decimatel the ca stera third Of
thi rc4iyu. are the khartoam mer-
chants, whose caravans have repeat
ediy made their way during the past
two years 70 the Red sea coast where
they h4Fe been -m Iggied over 10 Ara
Tia auaer cover Of the night; In spite
OF The Su.tan's Introduction upon the
slave trade thrOu zhout the Turkish
empire. the traffic -siil thriyes there,
secretly 70 tered bv Tarkish officers.
and at various point along the Ara
biau coast the Arab dhogs, with their
wretcheI cargOes are eagerly welcom-
ed 4 while ago. The Duke of Ham
iiton wrote from a Red sea port:
Yesterday morning I saw two lots
Of slave, one OF p and the other of
81. which We're rescued by the Eng
hsh gunboats, nearly all Young people
of from l. 10 10 or Il. boy. and girls.
They were a party OF 80 when they
left khartoun seven weeks back. but
had dwindle1 down 10 about 20 by
the time they reached the coast, for
embarkation for Arabia. They suffer
most when captured and on the march
to the coast 1t i said 200 have got
TO Jeddah, in Arabia, since January l..
The slave-catcherS in the remainder
OF this region, extending almost to
the head waters of the Niger, are none
other than the Mohammedan sultans
OF the numerous little independent
states bordering the Sahara-Wada
Baghirmi Bornu, Sokoto and others.
The southern part OF their territory
ana the regions south of them are
their hunting grounds. They send
out great expeditions, which some
times attack and destroy as many as
10 villages at time, and return home
with thousands of captiyes. many of
whom are retained in bondage by
their captorS. while the others are
sent TO the Mohammedan states north
of the Sahara Hundreds perish
while they are being driven across the
desert One of the greatest slave
marts is Tenduf, marked on our map.
Mr. Douls, who visited this delicious
oasis in lsS6, saws il contains beautiful
gardens and numerous wells, snd sis
renowned above everything for its
splendid slave market" Three
lourths Of the negroes brought here
are distributed by routes leading east
over Northern Africa, and the rest
pass on to Morocco.
There are to-day slave markets in
all the interior towns OF Morocco,
where a supply is kept of all kinds OF
human beings. male and female, of
all ages, To suit Mohammedan buyers.
Last year the British Anti-Slavery So
ciety sent an address To the
sultan of Morocco praying him TO
abolish the slave trade. or course.
the society's agent accomplished moth
ing, bu' he brought home a vivid de-
scription OF the slave market in the
city OF Morocco, where the Soudan
negroes are sold like cattle for the
lArtlug or A. servants The treatment
these poor people receive while being
driven perfectly naked Ia the markets,
and there exposed 10 the inspection
of buyers. cannot be described in
print; and this loathsome traffic is
carried on in country that is within
sight II Europe, and in which many
ministers and consular agents OF
civilized countries reside.
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