| Show SLAVE TRADING STILL EXISTS one vorm of it called adi curried carried on by adventurers it is high time that the attention of our naval officers in the pacific was directed to the blach birding raids that have lately been made upon the gilbert islands says london ti truth Blach birding I 1 should perhaps explain is the local euphemism for tile the form of slave trading that is carried on in the present day under the ariti british h and american flags C some three or four raids of this kind appear to have been made upon the gilbert islands inlands within as many years bearr by one american advent ui cr the natives men women and children are decoyed decayed on board by specious promises of the blessed prospect open to them they are landed on the hospitable coast of Gaut emala and there after a few months of virtual slavery the bulk of them speedily die from climatic or other causes A vancouver newspaper states that out of the last shipload thus transported not more than thirty per cent were alive at the end of the year the enterprising mariner who has carried out the previous raids was reported a few weeks ao a ago c o to bo be fetting out a fresh expedition at san feancisco Fian cisco the gilbert islanders now enjoy the proud privilege of being british Britis li subjects and we ive ought to protect them against this form of |
