Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-21
STANLEY'S BLACK BOYS.
Little Baruti Deserted His Friend
and Was Eaten for His Pains.

Mr.. Henry M. Stanley has been rather
unfortunate in the two black boys he
rescued from the wilds OF Africa and
brought to civilized lands, says the New
| York Sun. On his trip to the relief OF
| Livingston a little fellow named Kalulu
came into his possession, and no brought
him to this country and began to edu-
cate him. Kalulu accompanied his
benefactor back to Africa when the ex-
plorer crossed the continent. On the
| Upper Congo the boy deserted tho
caravan, but he was captured, hungry
and apparently penitent, a few days
later. A short time after no was
J drowned at one of the Congo cataracts.
| The news now comes from the Congo
] that the boy Baruti. whom Stanley
! freed from slavery and took with him
| to Europe, treated his white friend with
the basest ingratitude when he re-
turned to Africa with the Emin expedi-
and at last met a terrible fate from his
own tribe.
When Stanley was here two years ago
:, last winter he told a story that does not
appear in any Of his writings. Before
he left King Leopold's service, and ,
while he was on the Upper Congo, he
visited a camp of Arab s%iavers, in whose
hands were hundreds of poor slaves
suffering for food. Among them were
eighteen little boys from the cannibal
tribes of the Aruwimi river. The
Arabs hardly expected to keep the lit
tie fellows alive, and they were glad to
sell them to Stanley for n cotton hand
kerchief apiece. He distributed the
lads among the white stations down the
river, and arranged that the boys
should be taught to read and to work.
He thought the boys would be particu-
larly useful as interpreters when the
time came to extend European in
auences among the wild tribes OF the
Aruwimi.
The boy he most fancied among these
rescued slaves was Baruti, and he took
the lad with him to England, whore he
lived with the explorer until Stanley
returned TO Africa with the Emin expo
dition. He sent the boy to school,
where he readily learned to read, and
he made rapid progress in the English
language. Stanley said, while here,
that he was surprised to find how much
Baruti could tell him about his tribe
gends. Just before the explorer came
to this country to lecture he wrote out
all the interesting information this BOY
had given him about The unknown peo-
pie on ike Aruwimi, from whom he had
been stolen.
Mr.. Stanley selected the Aruwimi
route to the Nile, and he took the boy
with him to serve as an interpreter.
But when they reached the confines OF
the region where Baruti had spent his
earlier years, the savage instincts of
his race seemed to have gained the
upper hand. Mr.. Wesner writes that
rs soon as Baruti regained his WI
country he deserted the friend with
whom he had lived for years, and added
crime to ingratitude by carrying away
with him SANKEY'S rifle and revolver.
That was the news that Captain
Shagerstrom brought down b river.
When Mr.. Wesner himself visited the
Aruwimi h, learned that Baruti had
been unable to find his relations, who
had probably been killed or captured
by the Arabs. The tribe regarded the
youth as the white mans boy, refused
to recognize him rs one OF their num-
Der, and he was killed and eaten by his
countrymen