SLAVE MARKET

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1930, Page 5

SLAVE MARKET

IN ETHIOPIAN LANDS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 12. “Would you care to buy a slave?” asks Herr Max Gruehl in the “Daily Express.” “Come with me to Arabia, Somaliland ,or Abyssinia. There human beings are offered for sale. It will cost you a pretty penny on the regular market at Jeddah, which is under the eyes of European Consuls. Here, a beautiful, slender, cofiee-colour-ed Galla girl will cost about one hundred pounds, hut on the African side of the Red Sea, in Somaliland, or the southern Abyssinia the Gallaland slaves are cheaper.”

The “Daily Express” says Herr Gruell is one of the foremost German authorities on Abyssinia, to which lie lias devoted twenty-four years of study. He has conducted three expeditions in recent years to Ethiopia and Abbyssrinia. He affirms that the chief slave markets are in Hedjaz, Nejd, Yemen, and Trans Jordania. A conservative estimate of the slaves sold there every year number two thousand males and females. Nearly every rich Mohammedan, in Arabia, he says, owns slaves, many of these become the mothers of his.children-.”