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quite impracticable to form n Government baby form, and I could not take them and hand them over to someone else, as all! are imbued with the slavery Idea, and they would simply become The habit, inveterate among someone else's chattel. To take the Abyssinians, of ralding their them away without providing for neighbours in search of ivory or them, would make their caso slaves has been 'productive of worse than before.. My police some curious correspondence dur. keep, a careful oye on them, and ing the last three yours, which is any ill-treatment would rqesivel now published in the form of a summary punishment, as in the Command Paper. The principal case of anyone else ill-treating a partios concerned are Whitehall, child or assaulting a person. To the relevant British Agents in sum up, the Abyssinians on the Konya, and the offending authori- frontier havo alaves, but those in ties in Abyssinia, who are the proximity to the border do not heedless recipients of frequent ill-treat them as they have a romonstrances on the nefarious | harbour on our side. activities of their subjects.
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While it appears that, either by accident or by the forethought ofj I notice the correspondents do her Abyssinian Majesty, the not state that a large number of obnoxious occurrences have un-slaves are actually purchased; dergone considerable mitigation from their parents. This is a of late, this happy result was not common practice in Southern achieved without the display of Abyssinia, and I have known a certain ostensible anxiety by manyinstances. Achild of oight is bought for from forty dollars to Thus, ur Maskaram 4, 1910, sixty dollars. These become the September 15th., 1929, a pro-property of the buyer, who may clamation was issued from Abys-again resell at a profit, sinian quarters, of which the foll A curious instance is before me
the other.
towing is the authorised transla-at present. An ex-interpreter of
tion:..
Moyale was returning hare from
By the Conquering Lion from Addis Ababa to squaro up his the Tribe of Judah, and the Ap affairs. He was drowned on pointed of God. Judith, Empress route. His wife, however, arriv- of Ethiopia, Daughter of Meneliked, and amongst her entourage IL and Ras Taffari, Heir Ap-ware two female slaves whom parent to the Throne of sho purchased at forty-five dol- Ethiopia.
lars per head en route. Thosp
His Majesty the Emperor children are running about the Menelik . many times made boma hero perfectly happy, and] proclamation against the trade appear to take an interest in in slaves, saying let noho sell or their work. If I tackled the good buy a man as a slave, and since lady on the subject she would then many other such-like pro- probably tell me that they were clamations have been made. The receiving wages. What can one erase of these proclamations and do? the reason why some men were declared slaves wore that certain nations were at war with us, and this had caused money to be (spont, which; these nations had in repuy by their labour, and this also, that they might learn virtuo by, communication with Chris- tion..
Now it seems that you break! those proclamations, and go forth of your own wills to spail other: lands and carry off men that you, may soll them as slaves. If these. men obey, you keep them in slavery, and if they obey not, you slay them. Now if any mun be found to commit such offences, know you that such a man will be condemned to die. If any one) be found who has been taken from his country as a slave after
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this proclamation was made, such is largely a inatter of habit the a ona shall be asked the name of habit of keeping the system clean his country, and the Governor of and in regular working urder. If your liver is sluggish or you are Such country shall have to pay a fine of 1,000 dollars for each troubled with intestinal inactivity Slave, and headmen and the chiefy Pinkettos are your need. Ak at $9.75 each shail each pay 500 dollars,
gently as nature these dainty little regulators dispel constipa- tion, stimulate the liver, banish; From now and hereafter any-headaches and bilious attacks, one who has been taken from his clear the skin, purify the breath. country as a slave shall receive They also quickly relieve piles. a warrant of freedom, and he
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But the laudable intentions of the Emperor met with no fitting response from his subjects, for on October 19th.' of the same year Captain D. E. Cochrane, the Agent at Moyale, found it neces; sary to make a communication to his superior, from which the following is extracted:
I will say practically every; (but think every) Abyssinian on the frontier has a slavo or slaves, but in casos of ill-treatment they have a sufe harbour on this side, if they have the pluck to try and are successful in reaching the border.
A BABY FARM. On my visit to Fitaurari Hapta Giorgis, ut Megan, an Abyssinian officer was sent with ari escort: to meet me at Marimo. He and his soldiers were followed by
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of the same age would not be al-f lowed out of sight of a nurse- maid), who carried their rifles and ran behind their mulos. Pity for them was mingled with ad- miration for their marvellous staying powers. Every hour or so when the mites' showed signs of fatigue their masters relieved thom of the rifles, and in casos took them up' bohind them on their mules. There are at least) two or three Abyssinians living at Moyale who have slaves. It is vory beastly, but what is one to I do ?
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