Identifier: slaveryslavetrad00stan (find matches)
Title: Slavery and the slave trade in Africa
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Subjects: Slavery Slave trade
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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of theirhuts. Then from the ambuscade a volley 28 is fired, and a score fall dead or woundedto the ground, whereat the unseen foesleap out of their coverts to despatch thestruggling and groaning victims withknife and spear ; and some make madrushes at a group of terrified children;others dart for a likely-looking woman;a few leap in pursuit of a girl who is fly-ing naked from the scene; some chase alad who bounds like an antelope over theobstructions. Those not engaged in thefierce chase enter the village, and collectto argue over the rights to this or thatchild. When four or five hundred menrise upon a village whose inhabitants arenumerically inferior to them, the event isfollowed by much fierce discussion of thekind which is not always amicably oreasily settled, even when the matter issubmitted to the arbitration of the lead-ers. The rest of the band scatter wildlythrough the village, and begin collectingthe frightened fowls and the bleatinggoats, rummaging roofs, insides of gourds,
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29 and every imaginable place where a poorsavage might be likely to hide his littlestock of curios and valuables; others man-acle the captives, and question them harsh-ly about their neighbors, or indulge inbarbarous fun with some decrepid white-head. When the results of these pillagingexpeditions became known in Nyangwe,and the laden canoes disembarked theirivory, slaves, and fat goats of the famousforest breed, it kindled the envy and cu-pidity of even Tippu Tib and Sayid-bin-Habib. Up to 1876, Tippu Tib had been the ac-knowledged leader of the slavers, on ac-count of his marvellous success. Hiscareer had been romantic. From a poorcoast slaver, involved in debt to the usu-rers and money-lenders of Zanzibar, hehad grown wealthy and famous. By thestorming and capture of Nsamas strong-hold (May, 1867) he had become possessedof a fortune in ivory and slaves. He hadrelieved himself as soon as possible of his 30 embarrassing store by sending his brotherMohammed in charge of his plunder to

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