The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-23
ARAB ATROCITIES.
Over 800. 900 Lives Sacrificed Yearly by
the Inhuman Mretches.

Over 800, 900 Lives Sacrificed Yearly by
the Inhuman Wretches.
The three great scOurges of Africa are
slavery, fetch worship and cannibalism
The Arab traders take into captivity in the
native wars which they promote in order to
satiate their deyilish lust for gain 20, 900
human beings every year, and in order to
take this appalling number of prisoners
SOC, 900 human lives are sacrificed. says the
Detroit Tribune. For one slave who reache s
the sea coast after the agOnizing march in
the slave trains from the interior, thirty fall
by The roadside fIom starvation and cruel
blows and are murdered by their inhuman
captors, who leave their bodies 20 feed the
wild animals which roam those arid wastes
and their bones TO bleach upon burning
sands, a warning to the next band Of slaves
which comes along Of the probable termiua-
ton of their own lives. Arrived at their
destinations the victims are sold to the Mo-
hammedanS and pass the rest Of their lives
in bondage.
When slaves become very old OF very sick,
after years Of work even, they are not al
lowed a merciful death bv their blood
thirsty masters. They are generally bound
hand and foot and laid ont in the under
growth, where al nightfall a hwOOp of jack
ais Will deyour their living flesh, or elSs
they are sewn up in Il coarse cloth and
buried in shallow graves while yet they
breathe. Fortunate, indeed, is the slave
who is cast into the waves when his life Is
wearing fast away.
DiSemboweing or burning alive are the
common penalties for even tTfljng offenseS
or neglect by slaves. An Arab master last
year discovered two Of his slaves in some
petty mjsdemeauOr. He had them bound
hand and foot Then other slaves dug a ditch
about twelve feet long and filled it with
leaves and wood The helpless victims
were laid upon the fuel, and the owner with
his own hand applied the torch and stood
by gazing with delight at the poor bodies
writing amid the Teeking smoke, as the
flames, even less cruel than he, withered
their twisting limbs.
One night last November, just before
starting for this country, Father Healy
found seven bound captiyeS left in the GEM
eteTy and nuTsed them back TO lite. Some
years age Catholic priest passing a grave
yard at II o'clock at night heard a moan.
Following the sound he found a number Of
hyenas digging into new grave. He scat
tered the bTutes and dug up a beautiful
little girl about 10 years old, who had been
buried alive some hours before. The earth,
however, bad not been stamped down
above her face, and she had lived, fully
conscious OF her terrible situation The
animals had partially uncovered her, had
bitten her badly and had already eaten
some of her flesh. The good priest cut her
bonds, took her home, nurSed her back to
life, and she has grown to be an intelligent.
noble Christian woman aud great power
for good among her people.
Fetch worship leads TO similar cruelties
and sacrifices by beheadiBg and burning are
Of daily occurrence. The victims to be decap-
itated are bound in a sitting position be-
meath a willow or other tree with elastic
branches. a limb is bent above each ones
head and a cord passed from it to his neck.
tVi no oF viz
at a time. When all have been secured the
executiOner begins at one end of the row
and lops off each mans head with single
stroke of his ak. The limb springs back to
his natural position, jerking the head high
in the air. In burning the prisoners are
bound on a pile of logs, which is then
kindled, while the crowd of savages dance
around drinking beer and singing songs,
which 10 a great measure drown the screams
of the dying victims and cracking IF the
flames. A mother and child is the fayOrite
sacrifice by fire.