Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — PRESENT DAY BARBARIANS. [ARTICLE]

PRESENT DAY BARBARIANS.

French African Expedition Nnld to He Guilty of AxtoniiUilnit' Cruelty, A grewsome account of the conduct of the French expedition which has just made its way to t lie Nile is given by one of its members in n private letter, says the Boston Transcript. He says they impressed al! their native porters and other help by force; in brief, seized nnd made slaves of them. Then, if any of them tried to escape, they shot or hanged them. When they came upon a village nnd found it deserted they set It afire, whereupon the inhabitants, who were hiding near by, would come back nnd try to extinguish the flames, thus giving the French nn opportunity to s'd-zc some of them to replenish their slave train. The French would seize the chief and tie him ftp until he furnished the required number of slaves. If they did not succeed in calling any of the natives within reach by incendiarism or other means they simply looted tho village. At night they kept n» close n watch upon the slaves as possible. “but they would now nnd then nil run nwny together, nnd it was not easy to kill the whole lot."