The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-12
4 LAND OF CRUELTY.
Mr. E. ]. Glave Talks Of Canni-
balism and Slavery.
SCENES or HoRRIsLE CRUELTY.
The csngo Free state IL FsfthIess to Iss
Great Truss- Gissfenary work
Ine6eetiye.

Mr.. E. J. Giave, whose articie on .Fetichism
IN the Congo Land" in the last Century has at
tsscted much attention, is at present in the city,
with Mr.. Jack Dalton, the well-known Alaska
pgospectur and explorer. They are on their way
70 Alaska TO spend the summer in exploring the
region of the Yukon river. Nj. Giave who spent
the years from 1853 to 1SS9 with Stanley in
Africa, has, Of course, interesting things in
the Dark Continent In . conversation yester-
day he said: "You can really have no idea OF
life in the upper Congo region-no idea until
ron have secn for yourself. Cannibaiism
nouYishes, and ! can almost say that IL spreads
there.
'sThe slave captured In war expects nothing
but to be killed and eaten. He looks forward TO
that end, aud meets death with certain stoical
indifference that seems bred in hiul- Whenever
Igot . slave his first question was whether
was going to kill him When would answer
that would treat him wen, and even pay him
for his labor, he could not believe was in
earnest He feared some snare, and sometimes
would escape again to the bush
ssYou have read of the way the slave raiders
capture village. They come down on It in the
night or rather just before dawn, and surround
IL completely Then shot or two il fred into
the huts: the people Weakened from their sleep
rush ont half dazcd.
1.-THE raiders close In, pouring deadly fire
into the village few of the men and women
break through the lines into Inc bush aud so
save their lives, but the majority are shot down
or captured.
ssIhe division of spoils Is sickening sight.
The raiders are absolutely merciiess. No cries
: for pity. no tears. no condition of life touches
them. They knock the old men and women in
the head and leave them 70 die. A mother with
. babe cannot carry so heavy burden, and so
her child is torn from her and its brains dashed
out against tree The raiders seize the young
girls and rape them till they arc dead-actuaiiy
dead.
.Aftcr that the captives and the dead are col
lected: the handSonest women are saved out for
the chiefs, and then cannibaI orgy follows.
The women of the raiGing camp follow close
and eut up the dead for the feast, and you
might see woman carrying the legs or The body
Of man over her shoulders. taking It away to
cook 1t.
..such OF the captives as the raiders do not cat
ct once are killed. held as siaves-pechaps to be
eaten later-or sold 10 the slavers.
a3u. the eating of prisoners OF war is to my
mind slight thing compared with keeping OF
1acn and women and fattening them for the
feast. The chiefs win have these wretches fed
on oil and bananas. and when the poor fellows
are In proper condition, then the execution
takes place and the high festival begins. In
some villages man is killed in this way every
week or even oftcncr. and the wealth OF chief
depends or the number of women, slaves and
goats he Possesses
81 remember one day two men who were
laughing ana singing came down stream past
me in a canoe noticed they had something
covered NJ with leaves in the bottom. 1 beck
oned them to the shore and asked them to show
me what they had. Atfirst they refused, but
insisted.
"When they took OF the covering, saw the
legs of finely built man. The two canoe men
told me that fishing was poor, aud so the chief
of their village had agreed with a chief further
up the river to kill man and divide him. They
were taking their half home
ssYou can imagine the treatment the slaves re-
ceive at the hands of such people. Stanley has
with him Zanzibar boy, who told me even he
was shocked at the sights of cruelty. He saw
slave woman grinding corn for her master
Her child cried, and she stopped moment to
nurse It.
.sThe master babe her go on, but she chung to
her babe. He snatched it from her, threw it on
the ground and stamped its brains out with his
heels.
sThen turning to the woman, he drew his
knife, slashed of both her breasts, and left her
there to die.
.sYou can see that very little sentiment OF