The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-31

the president Of the Training College
there. told me how n poor swiss boy
broke I'D the slave trade OF upper
Egvpt said he. This incident &C
Cured lust before the British occu-
patton 81 some years ago The boy.
whose name was Roth. got th@ idaa
that 81 was mis- mission to aid IN
a%bolishing slhvery and that his field
Law IN the sudan He had no money,
but he worked his way 10 Alexandria
and thence up the Nile TO Assiout,
landing here without q cent He ap-
piled for work at the mission schools.
telling us his plans. and We finally
arranged that he could teach French.
While doing so he studied Arabic and
went out through the country to
learn all ne could as 10 slavery lie
spent his vacations living with the
people. travelling about and visiting
the villages. II was then contrary TO
the Law to sell laves in Egypt, but
Roth learned that the trade was 60
ing on. and that caravans were bring
ing slaves from the Sudan down here.
and that they We're sent to Tunts and
Tripoli and thence to Constantinople.
one DAY he came into the mission and
aid that a big slave caravan was en-
camped outside Assiout. and that the
men hid their slaves in caves during
the day and sold them at night. He
begged me to go with him to the
governor and demand that they be
punished. / did 20. but was not able
to do anything"
After this" continued DR.. Alexan-
der. "ROtt despaired somewhat, but
said he intended TO go to Cairo and
get the English consul general 10
help him. He did so and convinced
the consul general that his story
was true. The two went together to
Riaz Pasha, who was then foreign
minister. and demanded that the sale
Of slaves be stopped. Roth had then
the English government behind him,
and the Egyptian government mad to
respect him. They gave him a com
pany Of 200 soldiers and told him to
go back to Assiout and capture the
caravan 1t was probably their in
tention to notify the slave dealers IN
time, so they could get away, but
Roth stopped his special train out
side the town. divided his
into two bands, surrounded the cara
van and took the traders and sixty
seven slaves. whom they had with
them. He brought the slaves to the
mission school and said he wanted me
to hold them. as the Egyptians would
not dare to take them from under the
American flag.
Shortly after this there came a mes
sage from the governor OF the pro-
vince ordering that the slaves be given
up. The messengers were backed by
soldiers, but nevertheless ] refused,
saving it was Impossible on account of
the absence of DR.. Hoge. the superin-
tendent of the mission. The next day
DIR. Hoge arrived and thu governor
sent for him. He abused him for not
giving up the slaves, ~WhereupOn DR..
Hoge charged him with wanting to
evade the law. and told him that if
"Assiut had any respect for the law
or had a governor who was anything
of a man, the caravan would nave
been already arrested and he owners
punished. He then demanded that
this be done, and as a result the slave
dealers and slaves were taken to Cairo
to be tried there. The government of
Egypt did not dare to Whitewash the
transaction and it was forced to dis
miss the governor and punish the
slave dealers. Roth was afterward APP
pointed an agent of the Egyptian gov
eminent, to keep down the lave trade.
He came to the Sudan and carried on
his work there in connection with
Gordon and Slatin Pasha, and Slatin
speaks of him in his book entitled
Fire and Sword in the Sudan He
died While fighting the slave trade
there"
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.