Show BlACKS vEL TREATED Stories of Deplorable in Portuguese East Africa frim Untrue New York NOT Nor rend allege allega or of deplorable In Portuguesa Portuguesa East Africa In the islands of San Theme Thome and cred by recent English and American writers to the existence l tence of a cruel slave trade In African negroes among the plant plante e era were denounced as unwarranted fab today by b Col Co J 1 A Wyllie fel fellow fellow low of the Royal Geographical society of England who arrived on the steamer Teu Teutonic Teutonic tonic after a two months investigation of conditions In Portuguese East Africa Col Wyllie spent lust loet August on the Islands of San Theme Thome and Principe and said he found a spirit of friendliness and perfect freedom existing between the white men and the black The Africans condition Is wonderfully Improved as 88 a laborer by the Portuguese In contrast contra t with his home borne environment In Central Africa said Cill Ce Wyllie They come down to the coast many of them cannibals and all barbarians and are glad to hire out to the planters to es escape escape cape the tortures of their tribal barbari barbarities barbarities ties On the plantations they are well housed wen well fed and aDd medical treatment offered altered them is 18 excellent |