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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 d**k Sand, finally escaped his lips: "Africa! Equatorial Africa! Africa of the slave-trade and the slaves!" End of Part I PART II * * * * * CHAPTER I . THE SLAVE TRADE. 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 a