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men should produce about two hundred cantars 
(20,000 lbs.) of ivory, valued at Khartoum at £4,000. 
The men being paid in slaves, the wages should be 
nil, and there should be a surplus of four or five 
hundred slaves for the trader s own profit—worth on 
an average five to six pounds each. 
The boats are accordingly packed with a human 
cargo, and a portion of the trader’s men accompany 
them to the Soudan, while the remainder of the party 
form a camp or settlement in the country they have 
adopted, and industriously plunder, massacre, and 
enslave, until their masters return with boats from 
Khartoum in the following season, by which time 
they are supposed to have a cargo of slaves and ivory 
ready for shipment. The business thus thoroughly 
established, the slaves are landed at various points 
within a few days’ journey of Khartoum, at which 
places are agents, or purchasers, waiting to receive 
them with dollars prepared for cash payments. The 
purchasers and dealers are, for the most part, Arabs. 
The slaves are then marched across the country to 
different places; many to Sennaar, where they are 
sold to other dealers, who sell them to the Arabs 
and to the Turks. Others are taken immense dis¬ 
tances to ports on the Red Sea, Souakim, and Masowa, 
there to be shipped for Arabia and Persia. Many 
