The Arizona sentinel., 1897-01-30
YUMA ARIZONA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1892


 pounded one of her own children to a pulp in a mortar. She fed on mems flesh; she forbade the eating of women. She subdued immen: ( territories in the Soudan and the valley of the Niger, and Kept her Freople always at war so as to pre- vent rebellion. As she grew. older her caprices became more imperi ous, she embraced lover one day and dined off him the next. At last she met a young man who could hold her fckle affections. She really loved Culemba. But he had known her we'll, and he mistrusted her. One day he noticed cloud on her brow. He invited her to dine with him. He handed her cup full of Lisbon wine; she drank, and fell back dead.
 In Benin, prosperity has always depended on the slave trade. When it became dull the kingdom grew poor. For centuries it was so interwoven with general we'll being that to this day the people cannot see anything wrong in it. They regard it as theoretical free trader regards smuggling un- der protectienist tariff. No one can be convinced that it is crimi- nal. This King of Benin who has just murdered the English Consu- lar agents, says he would have no complaint against England if she would only allow the slave trade to be reopened. There is far more money in It than in ivory or palm oil.
 These were undoubtedly the thoughts which were uppermost in the mind of the King of Benin when he replied to the British authorities on the Niger coast that they would be welcome at his eapi- tai, having probably long before resolved to sacrifice them from revenge But for the anti-slave trade policy of the English he might to-day have been as wealthy and as powerful as his ancestors were in the days when the slave ships of Liverpool and Bristol car ried hundreds of Africans through the Middle Passage, and, being too ignorant to know that the outrage he planned would be followed by exemplary retribution, he thought he could wreak his vengeance on his enemy ard sent word to Lagos Come onp
 How the second act of the drama will begin It is absolutely neces- sary for the safety of the English colonies on the slave coast that an example should be made of this African King, ,. His city of Benin can be reached by two .routes-by the river Niger up to the junction, and thence westwardly by the Benin, and also by march across the alluvial country which skirts the coast. For an expedition properly equipped it would be only four or five days march, and there is no force which could offer serious resistance. We may expect to hear that the city of Benin, which is half ruined already, will be entirely destroyed and that the King and his Ministers will be sentenced to perpetual captivity in one of the English forts on the coast.
 The incident will hasten the joint occupation of the Western Souden by the English and French forces. The latter are pushing ex- peditisns both from Lotus, in Sene gambia, and. from the southern terminus of the railway in Algeria. The English have an excellent basis of operations at Lagos. It would not be surprising if the blow fell on Benin before summer. -.San Francisco Chronicle.
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