The Slave Trade.
PARTICULARS OF A BIG BRITISH VICTORY. (Per Press Association) j London, February 7. Particulars of the fight with the slave traders show that Lieutenant Abston, who commanded 150 regulars and 5000 native allies, defeat 20,000, defeated 20,---000, destroyed their forts and 50 villages, and captured 600 Nyassa slavers. The effect of this victory is to break the Zambesi slave road, close the routes by which the negroes were driven to the .seaboard, ai^d open up the interior to legitimate trade. The British loss, was oniy si*:, but that qf the natives was large.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 185, 8 February 1896, Page 2
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96The Slave Trade. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 185, 8 February 1896, Page 2
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