Year: 1877

tCONIlNUEO rhOh MIN In TAGH-
complain Of them, provided that such purchase wa,
limited 70 the interior


Ngs LAND PIRATEs


TIE charge make against the subjects or Prince
Burghash 10 that IN Marungu, Manyems and Rua
they use their power TO ensave people. TO capture
by force thousands OF men, women and children fol
the purpose OF selling them to their countrymen
for tho mere sake OF making money out OF the
sale OF human beings that were forcIby and un-
Justly taken from their homes TO feed their
nvarice. | charge them with being engaged
In Q tnfnc specially obnoxious to humanity
trafnc founded on violence, murder, rob-
berry and fraud. charge them with being
engaged IN q business which can be called by no
other nams than land piracy, and which should
1ustly be az punishable piracy on the high seas.
Tnat while all the nations in the world abstain
from being concerned in such o trade, and gen.
orally condemn it, the subjects OF Prince Burghash,
equpping themselves at Zanzibar, Bagamoyo and
other seaport towns, organize themselves into
separate and several caravans, whose object
mostly Is to prosecute to the utmost OF their power
and vigor system OF land piracy, to attack In
offensive tribes and capture as many as they are
able to for the purpose OF selling them to their
countrymen on the coast.


NO SUSPENSION OF THE TRAFFIC..


Prince Burghash, personally, do not believe Is
to be blamed. 1t is his weakness, his ineficiency,
frnp
violating all laws, human and divine, that should
be shown up. We may credit him, personally,
with doing all he to prevent 1t, or at least with
dong all he knows how to prevent the trade. But
1t is apparent to me and to anybody who may come
TO Africa that what has been done, or is doing,
makes no more impression upon this appalling and
desperate trade than what this letter viii make.


ZANZIBAR ITS CENTRE


only write this letter because 1t Is part of my
duty to give you such information as may come
within the range OF my travels /; assuredly with
but faint hope that it will have feathers weight
toward checking the crying and dreadful evil.
What do trust is that, with your aid, shall be
able to cause many to reject upon the fact that
there exists one little State on this globe, which
is about equal in extent to English county, with
the sole privilege OF enriching itself by wholesale
murder, Land piracy and commerce in human
beings and that tratfc forbidden to all other ma
tions should be permitted to be iurtively monopo-
lized by the little island of Zanzibar and by such
insignificant people as the subjects OF Prince
Burghash


HOW SUPPRESS AFRICAN SLAVERY.


The champions OF the ant-slavery cause in Eng
land, seconded by the government, deserve great
credit for having done their utmost to suppress the
trafic in slaves the high seas; but to complete
their work, it shonld be suggested to them that,
long as the trade is permitted in the interior, SO
certain Is it that attempts will be made to continue
1t at sea. II were to stop here l imagine very
many would shrink from the appalling prospect
such project as suppressing the trade in the in
terror would naturally create in the mind. Many
would dream ofexpeditions against the Arabs OTTER
rble expenditures Of moneys loss OF life and other
calamitous things; others would think such pro-
ject would call Tor hosts OF missionaries perhaps





ference with the government OF an independent
prince. ! am advocate for 6libustering expedi-
tons, because think they entail as much, II not
greater, evil than that which they are supposed to
suppress The heavy expense which such expedi-
lions incur is also drs.wback besides their fruit
iessncss


MISSIONARIES no USE


Missionaries also out OF the question. To
whom should they be sent? 20 scattered and
stripped tribes like those of Marungu and Nam
yemaY Even here they would be valuable, provided
each mission was supported by 200 sniders.
Though, in Uganda, missionary alone would be
,oon, in Manyema, Rra and Marungu he would be
mpracttcabe. Cruel or harsh interference by a
mighty Power In the affairs OF weak State is an
injustice, but where the weak State is SO fecbly
governed that its subjects riot in RIGHTEOUSNESS
and murder and revel in the luxurles OF crime
unpunished when q people convert themselves
INTO bands OF cutrhroats and land pirates, I'M
deferred by fear or God or their government 1t is
time, 1 think, for some more IN oral government TO
interfere; at least 1t would be desirable that sucn
a governments should interfere for the credit OF
humanity.


POLITICAL CHrvAEIy


A long time ago a sentimental necessity or what
was supposed to be one, sullced TO rouse all the
Christian nations OF Europe, wEth all their magnid-
cent force and daring, but nowadays it has become
almost an article OF belief that TO do anything for
the sake OF sentiment smacks OF the ridiculous, or,
TO use the new name for it, oucxotc. Wen, fear