New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30
G. L. WRENN. JR-

watched and searched, with the object of Selling
and restoring to liberty any slaves that might
be aboard.
SLAVE MARTs NOT INTERPRETED WITH.
But, curiously enough, neither Great Britain
nor any other Western Power has ever made the
slightest attempt to interfere with the slave
markets at Tripoli and Bengazi, or to stop the
large shipments of black slaves that are made
wellnigh every week from the various ports
along the seacoast of Tripoli. 1t is this which
has always created doubt in my mind as to
whe Their the Christian governments were really
in earnest about the suppression Of the slave
trade. There is much to give rise to the belief
that in patroling the Red Sea and the Indian
Ocean, and in maintaining a careful watch in
Egypt they are merely endeavoring to satisfy
popular sentiment on the subject in Europe and
that inasmuch as the public is to great extent
ignorant of the extensive shipments Of African
slaves that take place from the Tripolitan ports,
the Powers are perfectly willing to close their
eyes to the subject and to tolerate the trade
until forced by popular cutlery TO intervene. A
few gunboats cruising backward and forward
along the Tripolitan coast would prove sufficient
definitely to obstruct the only route that has re-
manned open to the slave trade, and to put
stop once and forever to this barbarous COM
merce.
That Italy will be allowed to secure possession
-, ,ha rro,ince of Trjpoli without hard fighting
and much bloodshed. ! do not for one moment
ho,;ave II is extremely doubtful whether the
Sultan either would or could submit 10 'i'''
further act of spoliation OF his Empire without
severe struggle and not only the turkish troops
NAV he relied upon to make quite as STUBBORN
resistance to an Italian occupation as 'he "
ger;ans offered to the French in the early part
of the century. In fact, the l'ai'a"S "'e
% find rripol quite as hard nut to crack as
Abyssinia and it is probable that' as III '''e o"
Of Algeria, it will require many years VI N'
tinual warfare before the natives are ei'her SUD-
dued exterminated.
All of them are more or less suoJec' 10 'iie Il"
Guence and to the doctrines OF the ohein q
Senousi. the Grand Master OF rehg'ous orue'
similar to but infinitely more powerful IMAM
that of the Jesuits. The Sheik III question"
who is a Shereef or descendant OF the fiopne''
makes his headquarters at an OASIS OF the haiie
OF Jerboub, near the Egyptian frontier ana
about fifty miles from the Egyptian town OF
silva SO famous for its ruins of the Temple OF
Jupiter Ammon. His spiritual rule extenos
from the most western point of Morocco to the
Mahometan provinces OF China and Java The
order was founded by his father, and the dogma
which he processes may be said to consist OF
purified kind of chadeiistic Vandalism. The
doctrines in question are Of the most ntolerant
kind with regard to unbelievers, and insist that
it is not only lawful. but even necessary. TO rob-
cheat and Kill at all times and in all places
either Christians or Jews.
The BLACK-VEILED TUAREGs.
The Grand Master OF the Senousi Is the only
chief to whom the Tuareg tribes accord obedi-
ence. They have justly been described as the
scOurge Of the Sahara Always arrayed from