A SOUDAN INCIDENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1941, 17 March 1885, Page 2

A SOUDAN INCIDENT.

An incident ocourred, which, if it had many parallels, would occasion some unpleasantness and difficulty. A woman came to Sir Herbert Stewart's enmp declaring herself a slave, and beggintr her freedom. She had no hardship or ill-treatment to complain of, and slip desired liberty she said, in order to many. When asked if she had money with which to support herself until she should many slio replied thatßhehadno concern on.tjiatfiecount, haying'beon promised' marriagpby Lord Wdjseley's cook; and shotiM thaLhappy proapcctafail, still she affirmed she was not without're'Bourge, fprther'e wasofte of the Mudir's soldier's *wh6' was equally anxious to secure her hand. Hor master, she said had twenty slaves. He had never her, though his. wife had. Sho haraf do menial work, ■; cook, and so forth. She had once tried to freo herself and had gone to the Mudir, but the Mudir had sent her to the Kadi (judge), and her master had come to the Kadi and giyen him a bribe, and thereupon; the Kadi hadreturned herto hermaster, ahu\ordered her to be chained, She crouchedjft.some timobythedooroftheinterpreterßmt,and thoroughly enjoyed a mutton chop, with a plate of bread and vegetables that was given her. Then she got up and walked away in apparent, contentment. ' Her application for ff eedom did not seem' very serious, and. Lord Wolaolcy's cook, who maintained that he had ! a' wife in Alexandria, denied the Boft impeachment of wishing to contract another marriago, The woman seemed to : be about twenty-four years of iagej- and, like all of her condition said shewas brought young fromKordofan and knew npthingrpf father or mother,