They thought it right so to harbour hatred, though most of the party had been sold for crimes--adultery, stealing, &c .-- which they knew to be sins.
If Baker's expedition should succeed in annexing the valley of the Nile to Egypt, the question arises,--Would not the miserable condition of the natives, when subjected to all the atrocities of the White Nile slave-traders, be worse under Egyptian dominion?
The villages would be farmed out to tax-collectors, the women, children and boys carried off into slavery, and the free thought and feeling of the population placed under the dead weight of Islam.

Bad as the situation now is, if Baker leaves it matters will grow worse.

It is probable that actual experience will correct the fancies he now puts forth as to the proper mode of dealing with Africans.
_10th May, 1872._--Hamees Wodin Tagh, my friend, is reported slain by the Makoa of a large village he went to fight.

Other influential Arabs are killed, but full information has not yet arrived.

He was in youth a slave, but by energy and good conduct in trading with the Masai and far south of Nyassa, and elsewhere, he rose to freedom and wealth.