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Behold
why
the
caoutchouc
trees
,
the
quinquinas
,
the
products
of
South
America
were
missing
in
this
country
,
which
was
neither
the
plateau
of
Atacama
nor
the
Bolivian
pampa
!
Yes
,
they
were
giraffes
,
not
ostriches
,
which
had
fled
away
in
the
opening
!
They
were
elephants
that
had
crossed
the
thick
underwood
!
They
were
hippopotami
whose
repose
Dick
Sand
had
troubled
under
the
large
plants
!
It
was
the
tsetse
,
that
dipter
picked
up
by
Benedict
,
the
formidable
tsetse
under
whose
stings
the
animals
of
the
caravans
perish
!
Finally
,
it
was
,
indeed
,
the
roaring
of
the
lion
that
had
just
sounded
through
the
forest
!
And
those
forks
,
those
chains
,
that
knife
of
singular
form
,
they
were
the
tools
of
the
slave-trader
!
Those
mutilated
hands
,
they
were
the
hands
of
captives
!
The
Portuguese
Negoro
,
and
the
American
Harris
,
must
be
in
collusion
!
And
those
terrible
words
guessed
by
Dick
Sand
,
finally
escaped
his
lips
:
"
Africa
!
Equatorial
Africa
!
Africa
of
the
slave-trade
and
the
slaves
!
"
The
slave
trade
!
Nobody
is
ignorant
of
the
significance
of
this
word
,
which
should
never
have
found
a
place
in
human
language
.
This
abominable
traffic
,
for
a
long
time
practised
to
the
profit
of
the
European
nations
which
possessed
colonies
beyond
the
sea
,
has
been
already
forbidden
for
many
years
.
Meanwhile
it
is
always
going
on
a
large
scale
,
and
principally
in
Central
Africa
.
Even
in
this
nineteenth
century
the
signature
of
a
few
States
,
calling
themselves
Christians
,
are
still
missing
from
the
Act
for
the
Abolition
of
Slavery
.
We
might
believe
that
the
trade
is
no
longer
carried
on
;
that
this
buying
and
this
selling
of
human
creatures
has
ceased
:
it
is
not
so
,
and
that
is
what
the
reader
must
know
if
he
wishes
to
become
more
deeply
interested
in
the
second
part
of
this
history
.
He
must
learn
what
these
men-hunts
actually
are
still
,
these
hunts
which
threaten
to
depopulate
a
whole
continent
for
the
maintenance
of
a
few
slave
colonies
;
where
and
how
these
barbarous
captures
are
executed
;
how
much
blood
they
cost
;
how
they
provoke
incendiarism
and
pillage
;
finally
,
for
whose
profit
they
are
made
.
