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160.
Landon, ff. Fl. Stanley the explorerand Baroness Burdett.
Coutto"
(1)
The anti-slavery iocua wan gradually
turning profeceional humanitarians into Inporialista.
By 188 a good deal of publicity had been
Given to the Sudan slave trade. Felkin in a speech to
the Scottish Geographical Societyr gave an emotive
description, - "If you had marched with ne alone a thousand
nileo of desert slave route, and seen for yourselves the
way lined with the grinning skeletons of fallen or
murdered elnvee, you would understand why I feel co deeply
on the subject. " (2)
lie concluded that it the Sudan were
evacuated, "... tho old slave trade aunt inevitably revive, "
To leave the Sudan wao represented an the oquiva. ont of
abandonning =any miilionn of nlnvao to their fate, The
3. D. F, might regard the slavery issue an a gigrutic rod
herring deaigned "to draw off the attention of workero of
England fron their own conditions"
(4)
But many
(1ý I3aroueoc. Burdett-Coutte be 1814, was interested in a
variety
lZajah
of philanthropic ochoroo;
Brooke of the 2lorth Borneo
she was a friend of
Co. the first Company
to receive a charter from the Government. In 1881, ehe
married har American secretary William Bartlett, 40 yearn
har junior
$ who took her name and became a Conocrvative M. P.
Coe Clara Burdett Patterson$ Anc! e1a Durdett.. Couttn and tim
Victoriann1 London 1953" "`ý""ý
(2) Scettich Ooo! r*1nhica1 Msnine, Juno 18859 R. W. Folkin,
fý Iid.
"The Bgyptian Sudan. "
ý4ý Juný_
tjc,, 22nd IIarch 1804.