Show HORRORS IN AFRICA A toung slaves story of practices keu york tun A letter from the conge tells the story of a slave boy from central africa who by a series of strange vicissitudes has recen tely comb into the possession of giolman bently the well known missionary and is now living on the river near the west coast the boya name is kayembe and be lived near the congo about 1600 miles from its mouth A while ago a large party of arabs from and their slaves attacked the village adjoining that in which kay ambe lived they heard the shooting and saw the marauders seizing women and children then they fled into the jungle and the arabs corning over to the deserted town burned it to the round it was three days before the vil lagera ventured to return to their ruined homes all was quiet then and they spent the days tilling their fields around the place where they had lived at night they slept in the jungle as they feared a night attack they were not without fear for a moment but they still lingered around their fields because their food came from them one day after they had led this wretched life for about three months a gang of slave hunter suddenly rushed upon the village beating their drums and firing their guns Kayem bes father threw a spear at one of the clavers slavers sl avers wounding him in the shoulder the wounded man then shot the father dead and cut off his hand aa a trophy kayembe dashed into the jungle with several nen after him they caught him and he was dragged away with other prisoners to neighboring villages where the clavers slavers killed the men and captured many women the little children whom many of the women carried in their arms were snatched away from them and thrown into the bushes there to perish miserably some of them however were struck dead or were stunned by a blow from a stick others who attempted to follow their mothers were struck with switches and driven back in about ten days the clavers slavers sl avers with their captives reached nya ngwe and the poor people were soon scattered far and wide their owners taking them in all directions Kayem bes master took him miles down the congo where he sold him to a Zenzi bari soon after the boy bad an attack of dysentery and his new master he would die sold him for a ong to a housea soldier in the service of the congo state the soldier took him miles further down the river to leopoldville where sir feancis de winton set the boy free and put him in charge of the baptist mission lie has learned the language of the lower congo and mr bentley writes that he is a bright and in te resting boy but the tragic event in his old home are graven in his memory lie wants to return to his own country and the missionaries have promised him that when they are able to start a station far up the congo where he came from be shall go there with them |