The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-12

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 willing to do their best to show their ap- preciation of efforts on their behalf: and surely never was pity more needed. or pure charity more ui igent.
 . One case was q typical one. Once. when down the Kasia River at Bena Yakima, the crew of the little steam dispatch-boat belonging to the "S. A. B." Trading Company, landed fresh from a Journey from down the Kasai, and full of an ac- count of how they had caught stow away. They said that one morning. after having passed the night close to the shore near a great forest, when they got up steam. and commenced the journey. they found man crouched down in the boat, behind some wood, and so cadaverous, poor. and utterly destitute that he seem ously to be allowed to remain that they had permitted him to come along on the steamer with them. told them to send for him; when the unfortunate soon made his appearance, leaning on a stick. and looking the very acme of despair. Per- haps he did not know what to expect from the unknown white man. I re-assured him, and with the aid of others, induced him to recount his story. He said that he had been for long time the slave of some Bakuba. who had nearly starved him. made him work extremely hard gave him no clothing, and beat him repeatedly. When he became so weak that he could not work to their satisfaction. they tried to sell him, but no one would buy him. He was all skin and bones. and the can nibal tribes did not want him in that condition. Then when the country began to celebrate the funeral of the late king of the Bakuba. Lukengu, it was decided to kill him, as many other slaves were being dispatched throughout the realms of that potentates successor Upon di- vining the murderous purpose of his mas ter, the man slipped away to. the bushes at his first opportunity. and succeeded in reaching the river bank, which he fol- lowed upstream knowing that his own country was at the head-waters of the river. He knew he would be pursued; so when he saw the steamer at the bank he determined to try to secure a quick passage out of the country of his fol- lowers, and hence his hiding away on the boat, while the crew were asleep This remarkable tale decided me to offer the poor fellow refuge in our free country at Ndombe. if he could follow our caravan there This he managed to do. after receiving some food and sleep beside a cheerful fire. called him "Dikumbi- Steamer" as a recollection of his provi- dential escape; and the poor fellow iin- gered along laboring in the fields around Ndombe, and always greeting me with a delightful smile until at last he suc- cumbed to the results of his ill-treatment under his master. and was buried under the Baobab on the hillside.
 One of the most interesting cases in my experience with this subject was that of litle Katilai-or, according to the name given by the Bakuba, Boigne. This child was about five years old. little slave belonging to Belinge. the cousin of Ndombe and chief of the town sinme- diately on Wissman Falls. Belinge had presented the child to me. to be trained and educated under the white mans influence. Boigne was by far the most precocious urchin I had ever seen. He spoke Bakuba and Baluba alike, knew all the rivers, towns and tribes over the slave route along which his captors had carried him before they sold him to Belinge; and used to keep all my house. hold spellbound by his childish prattle concerning men and things. When pVt to school he distanced all his competi- tors and remains still one of the most promising little fellows in the whole set, learning rapidly. and if he lives. sure to become a most useful and exemplary member of the civilized society of the Kasai.
 Once I was travelling in the Biomba country, and had no sooner settled down in the camp-chair for a rest after the fhaa I n1Nu rflnninR rapidly towards me. She fell on her knees in front of me, throwing sand on her breast and sobbing convuisively, and beseeching me to save her. It turned out that she had been working for trading establishment. when one night the slave1traders came upon her. seized her by main force, gagged and bound her. carried her quickly across the river. and were now on their way to sell her to the murderous Bashiiele. The slavers were afraid to sell her near at hand and were going to a distant town. A bit of quiet investigation showed that what she said was only too true. had not the means to redeem her there, so resorted to stratagem. Knowing that her captors would never admit to me that they were guilty of the crime, but that they had loosed her and kept her watched, so as to disarm suspicion. bade her go and sleep near Cne women III our caravan Dy the fire, and when morning came to take up one of the bundles belonging to me and carry 1t along with my people. This would force the slavers to show their hand. As my party was larger and stronger than theirs. the slave-traders did not offer to modest us. but I guessed that their intention was to try to seize her again by setalth on the march next day.
 When we commenced our journey the next morning, I bade her keep in sight of me. This she endeavored to do; but in crossing a stream in some woods, I lost sight of her. and soon most tremendous uproar was heard in the bushes. Some of my carriers had tried to interpOse when the raiders attempted to steal the woman again. and a fight was evidently on. I hurried back, and a few blows from my walking stick bestowed freely on the rascaIs' heads made them run off. and let us alone. When we arrived at Ndombe, the terror of his name kept the villains from following us thither; though