[44] Ratzel, Anthropogeographie, II pp. 387, 388. [↑]
[45] Powell, On Regimentation, p. CXII. [↑]
[46] Adult males are not desired for slaves, because they are very difficult to manage. This is the case even among the semi-civilized Mohammedans of Baghirmi: see Nachtigal, II p. 615. The North African slave-hunters, according to Goldstein (p. 367), have a preference for girls, but also capture boys; full-grown men, however, are generally killed. [↑]
[47] Slaves have also sometimes been employed in manufactures. Such, according to Cunningham, was the case in ancient Tyre. Slaves also “worked as artisans in the factories of Athens”. Cunningham, Western Civilization, pp. 66, 110. But we think such an employment of slaves is rather an exception. [↑]
LIST OF AUTHORITIES.
Abbreviations.
A. R. B. E. = Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Bijdr. = Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië.