Show MOM THE DARK CONTINENT americans have already taken a decided lead in the exploration of africa from zanzibar to the in tenor of the dark continent americana Ameri cani is a household word being a name given to the strong cotton cloth which is 13 imported into that cou country the natives of the interior are a subject for sala come solicitude for missionaries A re cent correspondence published in the new york herald describes de them as crushed under the he moh most galling tyranny and writhing under the crudest cruelest scourge with which the race of man can be afflicted famine with its fearful death and pe pestilence alence with its sudden horror appalling thau gh they be are at least lent meted out with A merciful hand but the native tyrant and arab slaver know nothing of mercy and are as dead to pity ds to shame in november 1870 1876 in in conse of information scat sent home avy byline tr traveller ariller stanley of ibe readiness ma of of Utera king of uganda a greatt potentate on the shores of ahe the largest african lake lakes the victoria nyanza to receive religious teachers awell a well equipped party of missionaries narie proceeded tiled to east africa in in 1877 and a mission in uganda which has maintained ita its position ever since though the first leader of the party was killed and several others returned home in an in invalid condition the gentle received the missionaries cordially in in 1877 but be he eoon soon grew tired of them and left them very ver y short abort of food on the dath death of uta in 1884 one of hia his eune sons named maauga became king he promised to it do great things fur the missionaries at first he e showed some inclination to reject idolatry and the native charms and one of his page pages it convert told with great satisfaction how the king bad had caused a sorcerer and medicine man to be pushed about and beaten now among the native subjects of prevails pre vaile an idea that the object ol 01 the missionaries wae was to seize the country thia this idea was fostered by arab slave hunter hunters and slave hold bold era at last growing suspicion and discontent broke out into deeds of open violence and in january 1885 on a trumped up charge that white men were bai being aug imported and secreted somewhere on the shores of the the king sent an army to entrap the missionaries while on their way to the mission boat they were seized dragged and pushed about marched ten miles and then insolently ordered to fio go their way some children belon belonging 9 to the mission were seized and carried off the missionaries made the best of their way to the chief judge and pleaded their case cue but he only gave ordera orders that they should be seized the next morning sw bound and transported out of the country bag and baggage the judges decision was received with uproarious uproar ous applause by an ill condi tinned mob which forthwith seized 4 the unhappy missionaries and hustled bustled them out of the great mand man d presence eagerly quarreling for the various articles of their drees dress however the executioner called off the mob and on reaching the mission the white men immediately dispatched as large a present aa as they could for the release of the captive children the unsent waa was accepted but the children two boye boyr and and a grown up man who bad had been seized under the plea that he be was a christian were burn ed alive by a slow fire after having their hands hacked backed off all the while they were cruelly mocked and jeered jeer ed by the chief chiefs appointed to carry out the diabolical sentence the only crime laid to their charge was that they were christians the murders wire were doubtless committed to deter other others from espousing christianity but so 0 o far from their haying this effect the work ot of the mission grew and increased in a remarkable manner then the king began to practice deception he lie sent presents of cattle to the mission roia sion and allowed some of his pages g to learn to read about this lime time bishop hannion ton of the Church osof england came to pay the mission a cibit and the king i aused him film to be murdered in iii cold blood many month months after waida the murdered bishops Bi diary wa was recovered since bis his dozens more have shared a similar fate the new york herald correspondent says thai that possibly these persecutions and trials are tire the precursor precursors of better thing things for fr the interior but africa present presents to 0 day a dark and woeful picture when hall shall the cry of it come up before god when hall shall a strong and gentle white hand be placed upon it when shall a firm voice speak as america and europe can peak speak if they will to tay eny this tyranny and wrong shall cease Is it true that these jip happy peoples of africa ore are abando abandoned pW to the hor bors rore of internecine warfare fron within and to the unspeakable scourge of arab slave raider raiders and I 1 slave trader from without ie Is it true that such chiefa chiefs aa as mwanza on the victoria nyanza and lial Arege between the victoria and albert lakes keep armies continually employed in raiding the eur cpr rounding districts these raids attended by all the frightful buffer ings which ruthless atheni heathens hc t lost for the time to every feeling of humanity can inflict again is it true that each chief chiefs as N wadge are in the habit babit of mutilating in every conceivable way hacking backing in biccs and burning alive their miserable people it ia is alaan too 7 fea fearfully raully true by or dera deis many tf ochia his people forthe for the I 1 sole crime of being christians have been slowly roasted to id death eath by t thi iea score backed to piece pieces clubbed to death or if not vilely murdered in sole some other manner barbarously and shamefully mutilated dr junker the rust ian traveller tra re bently easy to hie his unpleasant surprise while on his way to awan mwan gae gee capital june 1886 many as twenty nuli cr arlies lies of unhappy people whose only crime was ivas the attaching to them that they were christians aud and this on one road alone god only knows the lie lull full number of those who have bem beta massacred by the inhuman ravage who holds the bidie bodies as he be fain hold bold the soul souls of ihme c nhothi how he oppresses under his absolute sway this last outbreak of june to have arisen from froin au an act of did lid disobedience on the part of one of the kinge kings christian page pages who refused to submit to the unutterable shame of one of this negro nero abominable commands who bad given the boy up to one of bis chiefe for avile a vile purpose he bad dared still to refuse after being brutally beaten he was then put into the stocks and threatened with instant death in order toi to frighten him but he re bained unmoved and nod so the king strange word forgave him and set et him at liberty |