Note 707 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.
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None of the describers of the Akkas707 speak of slaves. Burrows tells us that they “purchase their implements, such as spears, arrow-heads, and knives, from their neighbours, in exchange for dried meat, or for captives they have taken in the bush.” But as the same writer states that “each village is ruled by a chief or head man, but among the people there is no variation of rank708”, we may safely suppose that they sell abroad all captives they have made, and do not keep any of them as slaves.