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FILATAH CRUBLT'i". 
crops, and even tlieir cliildren, they are kept in a 
state of constant terror and poverty. A boy was 
lately carried olF from Kinami by the Filatahs to 
Egga, where he was exposed in the market-place for 
sale. His parents, poor, miserable, and heart-broken, 
resolved to make an. attempt to redeem their child, 
and sold everything they possessed. With the cowries 
raised in this way, the father hurried off to Egga, 
hoping to be able to purchase his own child. Flis all 
was not enough for his rapacious foes. “ Go back,” 
said the Filatah, “ you must get more cowries.” 
“ Yes,” answered the half-distracted man, “ I will 
endeavour to get more.” Upon this the Filatah 
said, “You had better not come here ; if you do, we 
will sell yon” The mother, who was impatiently 
w^aiting the result, on being told that her child was 
not, on any terms, to be ransomed, wept long and 
bitterly. 
At Kinami, domestic slaves are sold, only in the 
event of their attempting to run off. Theft is 
punished by being flogged for the first offence, and 
being sold for the second. No slave-owner can 
legally inflict a heavier punishment upon a slave. The 
crime of murdering a slave is expiated by a heavy 
pecuniary fine ; but killing any other than a slave is 
punished with death. 
No slaves are sold at Kinami : those for sale being 
always sent to Egga, where a market is held every 
fifth day. 
