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"Now give it to them," said Dan, as he discharged his gun, and grasped another. Quin did the same. The pursuers' boat was not more than ten rods from them, but, from the want of skill in the marksmen, the discharge proved harmless. "Put in! Put in!" yelled one of the slave-hunters. "Never mind their firing. They can't hit nothing." Dan and Quin fired again.
The entire country was leased out to piratical slave-hunters, under the name of traders, by the Khartoum government; and although the rent, in the shape of large sums of money, had been received for years into the treasury of the Soudan, my expedition was to explode like a shell among the traders, and would at once annihilate the trade.
The Baris are a most warlike tribe, and would make excellent troops; thus they were valuable allies of the slave-hunters, as the geographical position of Gondokoro rendered it the only spot that was adapted for an important station.
But the Negroland of that period was western Asia, where the Cretan and Cilician corsairs, the real professional slave-hunters and slave- dealers, robbed the coasts of Syria and the Greek islands; and where, emulating their feats, the Roman revenue-farmers instituted human hunts in the client states and incorporated those whom they captured among their slaves.
A slave trade would quickly spring up between the Khedive's officers and the slave-hunters of Abou Saood, unless I enforced the strictest discipline. The expedition would represent a government slave market for the reception of slaves captured by the Khartoum companies.
I am not afraid of any thing. If we are resolute, we can defend ourselves if the slave-hunters should find us, which I don't think they can." "It's awful to think of fighting and being shot," murmured Lily, as she cast a tender glance at Dan. "I thought of all these things before we started, and I will not shrink from them now. But come, Cyd; we must go to work and unload the bateau."
I immediately ran for the road; but a dog not a blood-hound followed me, and while getting over the fence between the cabin and the road he caught me by the breeches leg. I shook him off and ran for the woods. The white men were slave-hunters, and were after me particularly, as I learned afterwards.
Already they have benefited by the fight with the slave-hunters, by running off with the arms and ammunition, together with a number of cattle, while our troops were engaged with the enemy." I came to the conclusion that it would be unwise to get rid of the slave-hunters by physical force.
Pardon, m'sieur; you are not aware that he is an offender against the laws a notorious criminal. He will be detained and tried." "I will remain to attend his trial, unless a sum will secure his freedom also?" "There is a price on his bead." "Offered by the slave-hunters?" The shot went home.
It was a pæan of thanksgiving for his escape from the fangs of the slave-hunters. It was homely speech, but it was earnest and sincere, and those who listened were deeply impressed by its fervid simplicity. Dan and Lily sat alone in the stern of the boat, for Cyd had been permitted to turn in with the runaway.
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