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Show Crocodile Captured Slave Trader. Tho trade In slaves has entirely ceased In Sokoto, but In Hanchl thoro wns a recrudosconco of It, duo to fa-mlno, fa-mlno, tho peoplo preferring to sell themselves as Blavc3 rather than starve as freemen. Ten years ngo, It Is recalled, tho en-tiro en-tiro Angass trlbo sold themselves Into slnvery, but when tho fatnlno Is ovor they tako tho first opportunity to desert. In tho provlnco ot Murl fnmlno gnvo a great Impetus to tho trade In children, who wero sold for food. Ono grim Incident Is rccordod: "Tho canoes," Bays tho report, "travel by night and nro concealed by day. Ono, which was discovered In a backwater, back-water, with 22 children on board, was pushed out Into midstream by tho tradors and apparently purposely capsized. cap-sized. Tho slavo tradors swam for tho bank, but ono was hold by tho leg by a crocldllu and captured; 12 chlldicn were drowned." |