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Show 218 APPEND[X TO NOTES. • there· never flt\W the white man till hewn ~ ncar th ese:~; all t.he Iutter part ~f his journey to the ~oast tl!c p:op\c did not kill Ol' cat tJ~cir 11\R.vcs, but sold them. 'l'hen· clothmg IS:~ small cloth about. the lotns. 'l'he kin"' nnd some others haven. large cloth about tho shoulders. :M:wy n.r~ entirely naked nll thcil· lives. Scdgjo has no wish to go Lack'· has better clothing here than the kings luwc there; if he does moro'work he has more meat. 1f he is whipped here, he is struck with:~ club there. '!'here, :~lwnys afmid of beiug killc~; jumped like :L deer, if, out of tho village, he ~aw or met n. stranger; ts very gla.d ho en me here; hero he is afraid of nobody. Such i ~ the substance of what en me from tho ncl!:ru's own lips. ]t was impos~:~iblo to learn rrom him his distinct nation ?'"tribe. Mr. Booktcr thOuJ!;ht him an }:boc, which was prnbably n. m1stake. 'J'he fullowi11g is from Lander, p. 58: "Wha.t. makes us more dcsirOtll:! to leave this abominable place, is the fact (us we have been told) that a s;tcrificc of no less than three lmnd1·ed human beings, of both f!t'xcs and all ages, is shor tly to take place. W? often h.<'ar the cries of many of these poor wretches; and the heart s1ckcns w1th horror at the bare contenlplation of such a scene as awaits us, should we remain here much longer." And page 74: <~ We have longed to di1;eover a solitary virtue lingering among the natives of this place, (lladngry,) but ns yet our senr eh has been ineHCctun.l." And p1wc 77: " We hn''9 met with nothing but selfishness nnd rnpncity, f~om the chief to tho men nest of his people. 'l'hc religiou of Ba.dagry is l\Iohammednni8m, :1.nd the worst ~:~pccics of pnganism ; that whid1 sanctions and enjoins the sacrifice of human bcingi:!, and other abominable practice~. :1nd tl1e w or~h ip of imaginary demons nnd fiend8." ])ngc 110: "It is the cu~tom l1erc, when n. governor dies, for two of his favourite wives to quit the world on the ~amc day, in order that he mny have a little pleaHant., social company in a future stntc.'' .Pngc 111: "'J'he rea~o1on of our not meeting '"ith a bctlcl· n•ccption at I..oldoo, when we slept there, wns lhc want of a f·hi('f to that town the last ha,·ing f()]]owed the old govPrnor to the etcrnnl 1-lhadcl'-. for he was hi:'! slave. 'Vidows a1·u burnud in lmlin, just as they arc puisvncd or clubbed here; but in the former count1·y, 1 bclicre no male ,·ictims arc dc~troycd on such O('Ca i-li O n ~.'' "At Paoyn, (page 12-1,) severn! chirf!-1 in the road have asked us the reason why the Po rt uguc~c do not purch:1.se as n!nn.y s la''.l'i! as formerly: nnd make very Sitd complaints of the l:!lagnahon 1u tins branch or tndfic.'' Page 158: 10 At J..eogrnda, a man think'! ns little of tn.king a \~ifc.~g cuttin g: an c:tr of corn . Affection i ~:~ nltog;ethl'r ou.t of the queshon. Page 160: "At Eitcho, it will Acru·crly be behevcc~, that not l~ss than one hundrPd and f' ixty gon•mor::! of towns and vlilagcs belwccn this place and the sencoa8t, all Lrlonging to Yarib;-~ , have died from naturn.l en uses, or have been !>In in in W;U", oince 1 wns last here; and that of the inhabited pluccs through whi ~.;h we have pa!'lscd, ~10t mora than a half-dozen chiefs :1re aliYe nt til is moment, who rf'CCI\·cd and entertained me 00 my return to lladag1·y, three y..:urs ago." r ArPENDIX TO NOTES. 210 Page 17G: "Th_cy secn.t to have. no social ten.dcrncss; ;er.y few of those ami:tble pr1vate VIrtues winch . would wm our aftcctlon, 1_1-nd none of those public qualities that ch1m respect or .comm.and adnuration. 'J'heir love of country is not strong enough m the1r bosom~ to mcitc them to defend it agn,inst the irregular incursion'! ~f a desp1CtL- 1Jie foe. * «- * HcgarJless of the past a.s reck.less of tho fu tmc; the present n.lonc influences their nctions. ln tlus rc.<~pcct, lhcy nppronch nearer to the brute creation than perhaps any other people on thp~~~c !Jt~11?.J:;bse~"largc n place as this, where two-thirds of lhc popu~ttion arc sl;wcs." * 4 * . . . . Pn.(l'e 102: "The cn.use of it was soou cxphuncd by Ins mformmg ns th~t he woulcl bo doomed to die with two comp:wions, (slaves,) as soon as their govcruor's dissolution should lake place.'' . Page 227: "In tho fvrcnoon we passcJ. ncar .a spot where our guides informed us a party of Falatahs, a short tunc ngo, murdered twenty of their slaves, because they had not food Rllfficient," &c. Pa(l'e 232: "At Coobly, he would rn.tbcr have g:ivcn us a boy (slave) instc:~d of the horse." Page 232: "Mollllay, June 14th.-'l'hc ~overnor's old wife returned from Boossa. this moruing, whither she had gone in quc~<.it of three female shvcs who had fled from her about n fortnight since. ~he has hron~ht her fugitives hack with her, and they :~re now con· fined iu irons." Page 272: u Both theRe days the men h a.Yc been entering tho city; anrl they hnvc brought wilh them only between forty and fifty slaves." ! •age 278: "The chief benefit~ result ing to Ticllo from tho success of the rebels, were n. half-yearly trihutc, which the magin. agreed to pay him in slaves.'' Page 282 : "At Ynooris.-And many tlJOU.<lands of his men, fearing no law, and having no ostcm;ihlc employment, arc scattered over the face of the whole country. They commit 11ll ~orts of crimes; they plunder, they bun1, they de~ truy, and c\·en munlcr, and arc not uc· counbblc to any carlhly tribuna.\ for their a.clion~.'' 1'a~c 312: "At .Bous:o.a.-The m:umcrs ol' the Afrienns, too, nrc hostile to the interest and ad\allcf'mcnt of woman, and she is vc1·y rt~rely placed on an equality with h('r husband.'' Page 228: "A man is at lilJ{•rty to J·etum his wife to her parents at any time, and without :tdJu, ~ing nny rca>~on.' ' 1'?-gc 345 : "Tho Sheikh of llornou has recently isfl.ucd a procla.· mallon, that no slaves frum the interior countries are to be sent fo a· sale farther west than '\'owow,-so that none will l.>c folf'llt in fuhue from thence to the seaflide. 'l'hc greatf'~t and most lH'ofitaLle mn.rket lOr shvcs is said to he :lt Timl.>uctoo, whither their ownca·s at p1·c8ent tra.n!'port them to sell to the Antbs, who taKe them orer the dcs"rt:i ?f Sa.hart\ and Libya to sel.l in the Barba1·y States. Ali Arab hal'! I~f\,rmcd ~s that.muny of Ius countrymen trude as far as Turkey, in F.uropo:!, w~th thou· slaves, whe1·c they dispose of them ftH" two hundl: ed.and hfty dollars each. * * * Perhaps it would be spc1tking Wlthm compass to F.:ty that four-fifths of tl10 wholo popul:ttion of thi11 country, (the Bboc,) likewise every oti1cr hereabouts, arc slaves.11 |