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1.— Tee ZERIBAS IN THE PROVINCE OF IROL IN Woot (From a Letter to Professor G. Schweinfurth.)

DANAGLA MISRULE—STATISTICS—PARASITICAL STRANGERS—SLAVE MUR-DER BY THE DANAGLA—ROBBERY, PLUNDERING, AND THE SLAVE-TRADE—STATISTICS OF THE SLAVES IN AYAK—THE SHAMEFUL CONDI-TION OF RUMBEK—ISLAM MAKES NO PROSELYTES.

TRAVELLING straight across the northerly part of the Nyambara country, we arrived at Biti, which is situated some two hours’ march from Amadi, and here we shall have to remain for a few days. Since this part of the country was taken out of the hands of the Kharttim trading companies, it has yielded absolutely nothing to the Government, except the ivory obtained from Monbuttu. The abundant imports of corn of various kinds, honey, wax, sesame oil, and fat of the Butyrospermum, have been shamefully squandered and wasted, the rearing of cattle has been put an end to, and the people have been first plundered and then sold in troops as slaves. They have been driven from Monbuttu to this place like beasts for slaughter. — What I used to see in Bor and Lado when I was a novice in the service, and when there were no restrictions on the slave-trade, was mere child’s-play compared with what goes on at these zeribas, inhabited and controlled exclusively by Danagla; for here slave-raiding is quite openly and systematically carried on.