Chapter
1
THE DARK CONTINENT.THE “SLAVE-TRADE” IS an expression that ought never to have found its way into any human language. After being long practised at a large profit by such European nations as had possessions beyond the seas, this abominable traffic has now for many years been ostensibly forbidden; yet even in the enlightenment of this nineteenth century, it is still largely carried on, especially in Central Africa, inasmuch as there are several states, professedly Christian, whose signatures have never been affixed to the deed of abolition.
Incredible as it should seem, this barter of human beings still exists, and for the due comprehension of the second part of d**k Sands’ story it must be borne in mind, that for the purpose of supplying certain colonies with slaves, there con
