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"
If
Hercules
were
here
!
"
cried
Austin
.
But
the
giant
had
not
reappeared
.
Since
the
news
sent
to
Dick
Sand
,
they
had
heard
no
one
mention
either
Hercules
or
Dingo
.
Should
they
envy
him
his
fate
?
Why
,
yes
;
for
if
Hercules
were
dead
,
he
was
saved
from
the
chains
of
slavery
!
Meanwhile
,
the
sale
had
commenced
.
Alvez
's
agents
marched
the
various
lots
of
men
,
women
and
children
through
the
crowd
,
without
caring
if
they
separated
mothers
from
their
infants
.
May
we
not
call
these
beings
"
unfortunates
,
"
who
were
treated
only
as
domestic
animals
?
Tom
and
his
companions
were
thus
led
from
buyers
to
buyers
.
An
agent
walked
before
them
naming
the
price
adjudged
to
their
lot
.
Arab
or
mongrel
brokers
,
from
the
central
provinces
,
came
to
examine
them
.
They
did
not
discover
in
them
the
traits
peculiar
to
the
African
race
,
these
traits
being
modified
in
America
after
the
second
generation
.
But
these
vigorous
and
intelligent
negroes
,
so
very
different
from
the
blacks
brought
from
the
banks
of
the
Zambeze
or
the
Loualaba
,
were
all
the
more
valuable
.
They
felt
them
,
turned
them
,
and
looked
at
their
teeth
.
Horse-dealers
thus
examine
the
animals
they
wish
to
buy
.
Then
they
threw
a
stick
to
a
distance
,
made
them
run
and
pick
it
up
,
and
thus
observed
their
gait
.
This
was
the
method
employed
for
all
,
and
all
were
submitted
to
these
humiliating
trials
.
Do
not
believe
that
these
people
are
completely
indifferent
to
this
treatment
!
No
,
excepting
the
children
,
who
can
not
comprehend
the
state
of
degradation
to
which
they
are
reduced
,
all
,
men
or
women
,
were
ashamed
.
Besides
,
they
were
not
spared
injuries
and
blows
.
Coimbra
,
half
drunk
,
and
Alvez
's
agents
,
treated
them
with
extreme
brutality
,
and
from
their
new
masters
,
who
had
just
paid
for
them
in
ivory
stuffs
and
beads
,
they
would
receive
no
better
treatment
.
Violently
separated
,
a
mother
from
her
child
,
a
husband
from
his
wife
,
a
brother
from
a
sister
,
they
were
not
allowed
a
last
caress
nor
a
last
kiss
,
and
on
the
"
lakoni
"
they
saw
each
other
for
the
last
time
.
In
fact
,
the
demands
of
the
trade
exacted
that
the
slaves
should
be
sent
in
different
directions
,
according
to
their
sex
.
The
traders
who
buy
the
men
do
not
buy
women
.
The
latter
,
in
virtue
of
polygamy
,
which
is
legal
among
the
Mussulmans
,
are
sent
to
the
Arabic
countries
,
where
they
are
exchanged
for
ivory
.
The
men
,
being
destined
to
the
hardest
labor
,
go
to
the
factories
of
the
two
coasts
,
and
are
exported
either
to
the
Spanish
colonies
or
to
the
markets
of
Muscat
and
Madagascar
.
This
sorting
leads
to
heart-breaking
scenes
between
those
whom
the
agents
separate
,
and
who
will
die
without
ever
seeing
each
other
again
.
The
four
companions
in
turn
submitted
to
the
common
fate
.
But
,
to
tell
the
truth
,
they
did
not
fear
this
event
.
It
was
better
for
them
to
be
exported
into
a
slave
colony
.
There
,
at
least
,
they
might
have
a
chance
to
protest
.
On
the
contrary
,
if
sent
to
the
interior
,
they
might
renounce
all
hope
of
ever
regaining
their
liberty
.
It
happened
as
they
wished
.
They
even
had
the
almost
unhoped
for
consolation
of
not
being
separated
.
They
were
in
brisk
demand
,
being
wanted
by
several
traders
.
Alvez
clapped
his
hands
.
The
prices
rose
.
It
was
strange
to
see
these
slaves
of
unknown
value
in
the
Kazounde
market
,
and
Alvez
had
taken
good
care
to
conceal
where
they
came
from
.
Tom
and
his
friends
,
not
speaking
the
language
of
the
country
,
could
not
protest
.
