212 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



MAN'S INHUMANITY. 



ANOTHER case of almost equal horror and brutality occurred 

 on the following day. A woman and her little boy, not more 

 than two years of age, had been captured in a battle with the 

 natives and brought along as slaves by the Turks. This woman 

 tried five times to escape with her child, but was each time 

 apprehended, and being, at length, regarded as incorrigible, she 

 was given 144 stripes with the coorbatch (hippopotamus whip), 

 and then sold separately to another Turkish party of traders. 

 Mrs. Baker's pity was excited and she took the little motherless 

 boy under her care and gave him the name of Abbai, and by 

 kind treatment soon reconciled him to his new condition. There 

 were two little girls also in the camp whose history was exceed- 

 ingly pathetic. They were three and eight years of age respect- 

 ively, and had fallen into the possession of Ibrahim under the 

 following circumstances : They were daughters of Owine, one of 

 the great chiefs who were allied with Rionga against Kamrasi. 

 After the defeat of the former, Owine and many of his people 

 quitted the country, and, forming an alliance with the Turk 

 Mohamed, they settled in the neighborhood of his camp at 

 Faloro, where they built a village. For a time they were on the 

 best of terms, but some cattle of the Turks being missing, suspi- 

 cion fell upon the new settlers. Mohamed' s men desired that 

 they might be expelled, but in a moment of drunken frenzy he 

 ordered them to be massacred. His men, eager for murder and 

 plunder, immediately started upon their bloody errand, and 

 surrounding the unsuspecting colony, they fired the huts and 

 killed every man, including chief Owine; capturing the women 

 and children as slaves. Ibrahim had received the mother and 

 two girls as presents from Mohamed. Of these little waifs of 

 adversity Baker very feelingly writes : 



" We had now six little dependents, none of whom could ever 

 belong to us, as they were all slaves, but who were well looked 

 after by my wife ; fed, amused, and kept clean. The boy Abbai 

 was the greatest favorite, as, having neither father nor mother, 

 he claimed the greatest care ; he was well washed every morning 



