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Among
the
five
hundred
slaves
that
the
caravan
counted
,
there
were
few
grown
men
.
That
is
because
,
the
"
Razzia
"
being
finished
and
the
village
set
on
fire
,
every
native
above
forty
is
unmercifully
massacred
and
hung
to
a
neighboring
tree
.
Only
the
young
adults
of
both
sexes
and
the
children
are
intended
to
furnish
the
markets
.
After
these
men-hunts
,
hardly
a
tenth
of
the
vanquished
survive
.
This
explains
the
frightful
depopulation
which
changes
vast
territories
of
equatorial
Africa
into
deserts
.
Here
,
the
children
and
the
adults
were
hardly
clothed
with
a
rag
of
that
bark
stuff
,
produced
by
certain
trees
,
and
called
"
mbouzon
"
in
the
country
.
Thus
the
state
of
this
troop
of
human
beings
,
women
covered
with
wounds
from
the
"
havildars
'
"
whips
,
children
ghastly
and
meager
,
with
bleeding
feet
,
whom
their
mothers
tried
to
carry
in
addition
to
their
burdens
,
young
men
closely
riveted
to
the
fork
,
more
torturing
than
the
convict
's
chain
,
is
the
most
lamentable
that
can
be
imagined
.
Yes
,
the
sight
of
the
miserable
people
,
hardly
living
,
whose
voices
have
no
sound
,
ebony
skeletons
according
to
Livingstone
's
expression
,
would
touch
the
hearts
of
wild
beasts
.
But
so
much
misery
did
not
touch
those
hardened
Arabs
nor
those
Portuguese
,
who
,
according
to
Lieutenant
Cameron
,
are
still
more
cruel
.
This
is
what
Cameron
says
:
"
To
obtain
these
fifty
women
,
of
whom
Alvez
called
himself
proprietor
,
ten
villages
had
been
destroyed
,
ten
villages
having
each
from
one
hundred
to
two
hundred
souls
:
a
total
of
fifteen
hundred
inhabitants
.
Some
had
been
able
to
escape
,
but
the
greater
part
--
almost
all
--
had
perished
in
the
flames
,
had
been
killed
in
defending
their
families
,
or
had
died
of
hunger
in
the
jungle
,
unless
the
beasts
of
prey
had
terminated
their
sufferings
more
promptly
.
"
Those
crimes
,
perpetrated
in
the
center
of
Africa
by
men
who
boast
of
the
name
of
Christians
,
and
consider
themselves
Portuguese
,
would
seem
incredible
to
the
inhabitants
of
civilized
countries
.
It
is
impossible
that
the
government
of
Lisbon
knows
the
atrocities
committed
by
people
who
boast
of
being
her
subjects
.
"
--
Tour
of
the
World
.
In
Portugal
there
have
been
very
warm
protestations
against
these
assertions
of
Cameron
's
.
It
need
not
be
said
that
,
during
the
marches
,
as
during
the
halts
,
the
prisoners
were
very
carefully
guarded
.
Thus
,
Dick
Sand
soon
understood
that
he
must
not
even
attempt
to
get
away
.
But
then
,
how
find
Mrs.
Weldon
again
?
That
she
and
her
child
had
been
carried
away
by
Negoro
was
only
too
certain
.
The
Portuguese
had
separated
her
from
her
companions
for
reasons
unknown
as
yet
to
the
young
novice
.
But
he
could
not
doubt
Negoro
's
intervention
,
and
his
heart
was
breaking
at
the
thought
of
the
dangers
of
all
kinds
which
threatened
Mrs.
Weldon
.
"
Ah
!
"
he
said
to
himself
,
"
when
I
think
that
I
have
held
those
two
miserable
men
,
both
of
them
,
at
the
end
of
my
gun
,
and
that
I
have
not
killed
them
!
"
This
thought
was
one
of
those
which
returned
most
persistently
to
Dick
