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Updated: May 11, 2025
Understand, if you please, that it is my wish not to be left alone under any circumstances that is quite clear, isn't it? not under any circumstances! I have heard some most disquieting stories about black-mailers and that sort of people." "I don't think you need fear anything of the sort here," Arnold assured him. "I trust not," Mr. Weatherley asserted, "but I prefer to be on the right side.
There is nothing that a Corean fears so much as that people should speak ill of him, and especially this is the bugbear under which the nobleman of Cho-sen is constantly labouring, and upon which these black-mailers and "spongers" work. High officials, whose heads rest on their shoulders, "hung by a hair," like Damocles' sword, suffer very much at the hands of these marauders.
It is only on women and girls, and men who are as weak and uninstructed as women, that rascals of his low stamp venture to practise their arts. The moment a man of boldness and resource appears on the scene, one who knows the laws and is not afraid to invoke their protection, black-mailers quail and vanish.
A donkey frightens a leopard Sublime scenes in Kawendi, Starvation imminent. Amenities of travel in Africa. Black-mailers. The stormy children of Uhha. News of a white man. Energetic marches Mionvu, chief of tribute-takers. An escape at midnight. Toiling through the jungles. The Lake Mountains. First view of the Tanganika. Arrival at Ujiji, The happy meeting with Livingstone.
She buys our favor with her wines and feasts, and blinds our willing eyes with her gifts and charities, and we only murmur with pensive gentleness "who shall judge!" We are such cultured black-mailers, such refined bribe-seekers, such sensitive sycophants, while she obeys the eleventh commandment and is properly discreet she feeds us epicurean favors as she feeds her English pug bon-bons.
We were in sight of the villages of the Wakaranga; the people caught sight of us, and manifested considerable excitement. I sent men ahead to reassure them, and they came forward to greet us. This was so new and welcome to us, so different from the turbulent Wavinza and the black-mailers of Uhha, that we were melted. But we had no time to loiter by the way to indulge our joy.
There was one editor that I had to square personally that is to say, 100 pounds cash it had to be in sovereigns, for notes could be traced and a call of 2,000 shares at par, he's the boss pirate that everybody has to square and of course there were odd ten-pound notes here and there, but as a rule I just opened the door and fired the black-mailers out.
There is nothing these wretches will not do, no place they will not invade, in order to extort money from their victims. Persons from the country, stopping at the hotels of the city, are frequently the objects of the attacks of the black-mailers. A man's name is learned from the hotel register, and he is boldly approached and charged with conduct he never dreamed of being guilty of.
The detectives are constantly at work in attempts, which are generally successful, to protect persons of respectability from the clutches of that unscrupulous class known as black-mailers. These individuals are very numerous in the city, and are generally to be found amongst the most desperate and wicked of the disreputable classes.
In point of fact every kind of "skeleton," social or criminal, if once its whereabouts be discovered and its individuality established, becomes a source of revenue to those unscrupulous pirates of society. It occasionally happens that black-mailers will systematically weave a web whereby they may entangle a wealthy person.
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