THE SLAVETRADE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2206, 26 May 1891, Page 1

THE SLAVETRADE.

Zanzibar, May 21.

A caravan organised by Cardinal Lavigerie for tbe suppression ot the slave traie has left here for Lake Tanganyika. The numerical strength of the; caravan is 400. M«v22. I

Arab elave dealers have committed] great atrocities on the > shor<s of Lake Tanganyika. Numerous natives have been murdered and the country has bee-ni devastated tor miles. The country is said to ba strewn with the bones of devoured bodies. Ten thousand natives have baen ferc«d to leave the country.

HE GAME EOJIE TO DrE, i

One day in December,lßßß,a British transport Tessel arrived at Goiport. Only a brief look was needed to auure ike speotat»r that she had made the long vojuge from Indiai There were soldiers on board—*orm on lea re of absence to visit home, and others so worn and wasted that it was plain to see why " they " were come baok from the East to the dear old Island, Of these poor fellows a few wore able to go on to their friends, while others were just strong enough to bear the journey to the Nary Yard Hospital. Among the. latter was ; one to whim we will introduoe the reader.—Ton would hsVe fancied him to hare been about thirty years of age, .yet the vigour and elasticity of youth were missing.—Disease had done the Work of time, and it was but the wreck of a man that entered the Hospital doors that day. It was a matter for wonder that he lived to reach an English port. Several months later, by accident, the writer of these lines heard that soldier's story from his own lips, and here it is substantially in his own words :—*' In the year 1883," he said, "£ enlisted in Her Majesty's 51st Regiment, and was soon ordered out to India, where I arrived on the following Christmas, and left there for Burmah Oct. 6 h, 1886, where I remained eighteen months, being present at Maodalay when Xing Xbeebaw surrendered to our troops. Here my good health began to give waji At first I had a sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach, and was so dull and drowsy I oould scarcely keep up. I had a pain in the right side and under the shoulder blades. My spirits were depressed, and everything seemed sad and melancholy. I couldn't eat, and lay in bed sleepless night afcer night till I was almost wild for laok of reßt. ;My skin and eyes turned yellow, as is so common with Europeans in India j my tongue was badly coated, feet eold and olumsy, : stomach sick and upset, vomitting, and constant diarrhea*, In this bad form I lay in bed for four months in 1887. Both the Regimental dootor and a doctor of the Indian Qovemmentjeaid I w s suffering from dysentery. I was weik as a baby, and passed nothing but slime from my bowel*. No treatment availed to stop the diarrros>, which was fast draining the life out of me Finally I was sent home, and arrived at G/osport in Dae, 1888, where I lay in the Hospital until Feb., 1889, when I was disCKABOBb AS INOUEABLE, and placed in the Army Keserve.

" I returned to Warb >yj, in Huntingdon • tbire (my home), and tried to work. But i-. was impossible. I was bo emaoiated that old acquaintances did not at first recognise me. Then they said,' Hodaon, you needn't trouble to buy any. more clothes. The only suit you'll require will be a wooden bos.' " After eating even a little I wag obliged to hurry away from the table became of the terrible griping, gnawing pains in the stomach aad bowels. My father and mother were alarmed, and I consulted a dootor et Warboys, but what he gave me had no go >d effect. - .

" Afc last it was Mi? Nioholl, the Chemist, of Warboys (now of Croydon) who arid to me,'Hodson, yon had batter try Mother Seigel'e Curative Syrup.' On thii I bought a bottle and used it, but I couldn't sea it did any good. Mr Nioholl aaid, ' Tr/ it again. I have luoh oonfidenoe iu it that I will giro you the second bottle free of charge.' "Hedid so, and bafore I had taken the half of the seooad bottle I began to fcoi relief. Thii was encouraging, and I prooured the third bottle. Before I bad finished it 1 was so muoh improved that I was aiked to go back to work. But I was afraid to risk it, and said, 'No.; wait till I hava mod three bottles more, for this Mother Seigei'a Curative Syrup is doing for me what no medioine in India or England has done yet —it is healing me from the very depths where I was ill and dying.' "So, as you may suppose, I kept right, along with. Mother Beigoi's Curative Syrnp* until the fifth bottle wa» gone. Then I presented myself (o the astonished people of Warboys as robust, strong, and welt as I was when I first entered tha army—l returned to my woik, and my comba-dks looked upon HE AS OKI XISBH SXOH THB SEAS. With eyet full of wonder they asked, ' What hau done this for you ?' and I answered, -«I owe my life and health to Mother Beige)'a Curative Syrup, and am willing that everybody in England should hear me say bo.' I have never lost an hour's work since, and will :gladly reply to letters of enquiry.— John Hodson, Warboys, Huntingdonshire." Mr BTodson's real disease waa indigestion and dyspepsia, oiused by change of climate, food, and habits. The diarrhoea was one 000 of its symptoms—Nature's effort to get rid of the poisonous matters in the stomach and bowels. Mother Soigol's Curative Syiup cured the digestive malady, and the symptoms vanished sa a neosssary consequence. But our friend did not get fclio right and oulj r emedy a day too >oon.