I lO once more to his native land and to his trade. "I am becoming an old man; and from now I only look forward .to my death; but, before I die, I should like to see the country of my young days quiet and peaceful, and trade up and down the Nile. I may never go back to my own people, but, if never this comes to pass by the advice I now give, my people will bless and remember my name for good and for blessing. I do not wish to be made a great man.

I shall have my reward and my blessing long after I am in my grave, If I can be of use then it is well, but let me and my family depart from Egypt and from the Sudan. We will go to one of the holy cities ... and so I will end my time. " But Zubeir was a slavedealer. Let it be admited. So too was Mohammed AH: so too Napolean.

Only four centuries ago, when England was presumably in a far higher state of civilization than the country in which Zubeir lived, with no religious law, as in the case of Mohammedan countries, to sanction it, there was a slave-market at Bristol. In Zubeir's own lifetime there was slavery in an English speaking colony. So recently as 1870 "Every household in Upper Egypt was dependent upon slave service", and in the year 1894 an Egyptian Pasha of high rank was prosecuted for buying a slave, (i) (i) Sir Samuel Baker; a memoir by T. Douglas Murray and A.

Silva White p. 138. and 140.