The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-10-21


who we're hoping for a revival II trade
with the advent OF new ruler. s9ys
the New York Recorder. SO long a.
the man whom the British controlled |
remained alive there was little chancc |
81 carrying on the profitable slave trafhc
without being In constant dread Of dis ,
covery. But with a man on the throne |
who refused 20 be dominated by the
foreigners the slave dealers Of zanzl-
bar would see the halycon days come
gain.
No one who IA familiar with East
Africa history viii regret that the slim
chance Of a revival Of slavery has been
smashed. The purchase and sale Of
human beings dies hard In Zanzibar.
but the open ecandal OF a public slave
market no longer exists.
The slave market was once one Of the
great sights Of Zanzibar. An entry IN
Explorer L.yingnone's last Journal
says:
u visited to-day the slave market
Three hundred individuals. nearly.
were offered for sale: the greater NUM-
Der OF them from Shire and Nyassa.
Excepting the children. an eeemed 20
feel the degradation Of their position.
Their teeth were examined. their cloth
ing lifted 20 inspect the legs and a stick
thrown down that IN picking It up the
alave might show bis action. Some o.
them were dragged about through On
middle Of The crowd with the price de-
mandei Tor them continually SHOUTED
aloud. The ereator number Of the buy
er8 were Persians or Arabs. These last
az well as the natives. treat their
slaves. Il o. said. with Kindness. which
o. to say that they share the general
Incidence"
Blu, the horror Of the traflc ala no;
begin with the public Offering Of the
slaves for sale. In another part OF the
journal Livingstone records the follow
ing:
June is.-Parsed to-day by the body
OF a woman fastened 10 a tree and by
the neck: she was dead The people Of
the country relate that she was unable
longer 10 follow the band and that the
slave dealer was unwilling that she
should become the property Of any one
who might md her In ease she should
recover. Another had been stabbed. or
killed with a bullet The reason n al
ways the same; furious al the loss Of
his money. the trader assuages his
wrath by killing the slave who can no
longer walk.
June 27.--Saw a man who must have
died from exhaustion. as the body was
nothing but a skeleton. One OF our
men had straycd from the path and
found a number Of slaves, their necks
In the yoke and abandoned by .he pur-
chaser for lack OF provisions They no
longer had strength TO speak"
These abandoned slaves were part Of
the train OF Arab dealers who were In
the habl, Of supplying tho ever-inero1s-
ing demand for slaves by periodical
raids into the interior. The raiders
were always well armed and Il was an
easy matter to shoot down the natives
who objected 70 being carried on like
cattle. The survivors, mostly women
and children. were then secured and
the raiders began the march 10 the
coast. The captlves we're usually Sc
cured BY an adjustment made BY a
iorked pole: the neck Of the prisoner
fitted into the fork. secured by cross
piece dashed behind. while the wrists.
brought together IN front OF the body.
were tied tothe pole. The children were
secured by a rope around their necks
to their mothers or trusted TO follow
them unbound from natural instinct.
With the anguish OF their situation
added TO the fortunes Of their thirst.
hunger and fatigue. Il was no wonder
that many abandoned captives were
left 10 die In the track Of the slave
march. The old and feeble who
dropped on the march we're shown lit
tie mercy. their troubles being ended
with blow from a slave dealers Ak or
being left 70 die mlserably In the des-
erl pltlful tales have been told OF thu
anguish OF the mothers thus left behind
at seeing their children carried OF be-
fore their eyes and OF the despair OF the
children thus torn away from their dy-
ing parents.
The principal countries to which the
slaves were sold were Turkey. Egyp,
Persia. Tunis. Morocco and MAZDA
gascar.
Fer years the slave ,rafIie OF ZanEl-
bar has been the cause Of trouble TO the
European powers who desired It's sup.
preston. In 1855 the whole coast Of
Zanzibar was blockaded BY the united
fleets OF England. Germany. France
and Portugal and the slave dhows IN
the Red sea were mercllessly hunted
down. captured and the contents Of
their holds released. so mue0 az.
glleved were the Arab dealers at thil
treatment that they actually prepared d
monster petition to the European pow,
ers, complaining OF the damage done {,
their Tbuslness' by the Zanzibar block
ade.
The island OF Zanzibar has an are,
OF about 625 square miles and the SIX
o. Pemba. an adjoining island. whlcl
Is also In the dominion Of the zanzibai
ruler, rs $50 square mileA Both o
these islands are situated In the hear
OF the tropics, being 7 degrees south o
the equator There is a deep channe
OF about thirty miles In width separat
ing the two islands from the mainlan,
OF the African coast There was a tim
when the Zanzibar domlnlons took IN
large section Of the mainland and els
several Of tho smaller nelehborlng q
lands. These domlnlons were gradu
ally acquired by the lmams OF Musca