The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

W EYMOirr H.

Tows Count:H.—The first quarterly meeting was
celled for Wedneeday last; but in ooneequenoe of
tho Ammo' of the Mayor, and tbe smallness of the
attendance, no baroness was transacted. The
following members were present :—Aldonnen Eliot
aud Mileage ; Councillors Drew, Basuto°, Mason,
S. Brown, Botts, and Commoin

It•It• AVIS—We have been informed of • re-
markable instance of incubation in the case of •
canary in the possession of Mr. Woodcock, who is
well known in Wl:mouth as havins been associated
with the Royal Engineers AmaMar Dramatic Society.
The canary hatched a brood in the early part of
January, during the severe weather that then
prevailed, and is now sitting again, having madded
the fret family to the care of Mir loving mate.

Werworrra ANATROR Hemet= Socierr.—The
above society will give two performances at the
Royal hotel on Tuesday and Wednesday. We trust
they will receive the liberal support they merit, as
being the chief caterers for public amusement during
the dull winter months. Having made a second
engagement with Miss Lavine (whose recent .uco-
tel in Weymouth will be remembered),
and arranged a most attractive programme, the
society come forward with every prospect of full
houses.

LITERARY INSTITUTION. —On Wednesdays display
of diwoolving views bir the aid of the " Maprio
Lantern" was given. The appointors were rather
numerous, and all seemed delighted with the enter-
tainment. Some of the views were exceediunly good,
especially the photographs of Weymouth, sad scones
iu Italy done by Mr. Fox, an artiet of the town.
Tbe colovred pictures were Ms, effective. A little
more dexterity in tbe manipulation of the apparatus
would perhaps have been desirable. The company,
however, were well satisfied with what they saw, and
no one elm hue right to complain.

WILYIIOITrIi GAB COXII7IIIIIIe COMPLIIT.—Tbtre
seems to be danger of the above oompany's bill in
Parliament ooming to an untimely end, as the pro-
moters are reported not to have complied with the
standing orders of the House, a position usually fatal
to the passage of a bill through committee. The
flaw in the present instance seems to be the omission
to state in which parish the company's intended
works will be situated. It is averred by some of
the most roguing of the promoters that the defect
can be rectified in committee, and the bill be saved.
Whatever be the result, however, the consumers of
the town will obtain their gas at a cheaper rate than
before, Mr. Bordon having pledged himself,
If be remains in possession of the present works,
to supply it at 4s. 6d. per thousand, or less if
possible, after the 29th June next, conditionally on
the new company withdrawing from Parliament.
This fresh phase of the "situation" may pmeibly
have the result of an amicable settlement of the gas
question, without the intervention of another oompany.
The following paragraph in reference to the subject
has been received :—"fl. report of the exeminer
upon the Weymouth Gas Consumers' Bill, of non-
compliance with standing orders, is not decisive of
the fate of the bill for this session, as we learn that
the company are taking steps to bring the captious
objection raised by Mr.-Bardoa, before the Standing
Orders Committee of the Home of Commons." It
I. said that the new company are desirous of
bringing the matter to a conclusion if they can Ise
the =Wrests of the town protected.

ComrrY Parry Bsemoss, Friday.—Before
fiwafileld, Req., W. Eliot. Esq., and H. C. Gaudiest,
Esq. George Harris was charged with steeling two
lambs, belonging to Mr. John Scutt, of Preston.—
Promeutor soid on Monday morning he mimed two
lambs. He marched the field all over, and, not being
able to And them, be suepected the prisoner, sibs had
applied to him for lambs on the nrevlous Sunday. He,
4borefore, Informed the police of the matter. Led saw
She lambs at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Had
men two lambs since le the sharp of the police, end
identified them as three be had lost. Catherine
Hodder, of Portland, stated that prisoner was In her
huabasd's employ, and had been commissioned
to purdthes two lambs. On Monday after-
noon ha come to the hostas, and brought
two tombs which he said be had got from Broadmayoe.
The lambs were fed, and handed to the shepherd.—
Matthew Fancy, ah sphord to Mr. Hodder, deposed that
on Monday, about Sr., prisoner brought two lambs,
which he said be had brought from Broadreayoe, and
had given three shillings for them. On Tuesday be
save the lambs up to the poliee.—James Pnekett,
shepherd to Mr. &Mt, said on Monday morning his
maiser asked him if be had taken two of the twin
liabbs. He replied that be had not. There were two
lambs missing. Those predated were those Mr. Elontt
bad lost, to the best of his belief. One of the lambs
knew its mother again, but the other did not.—P.S.
Pitfield stated that on Monday be received information
of the loss of lambs. He went with Mr. Scutt to th
Said, and saw some footmarks over into the road from
mbleb the lambs were taken. Some of the footmarks
he covered over. On Tuesday be went to Portland,
and reesived the two lambs prodeced from Matthew
Pansy; be also apprehended the prisoner, and c
him with stealing two lambs from Mr. Beath of charged
n
Farm. Prisoner said he had not been there since
Sunday morningo cud that he bought the two lambs of
shepherd at Broadmoyoo. He did not know the
man's name, and should not know him again if he saw
him. Took off prisoner's boots and compared them
with the footmarks in Mr. Scutt's Said, and they
corresponded exactly. Had since been to Broedmayne,
and found that no lambs had been sold by the shep-
herds them—Mr. Beall was re.ealled, and said he was
present when the footmarks and boots were compared.
They corresponded exactly.—Prisoner was then
motioned, and said he had a drop of drink, which
mused him to commit the theft—Sent for trial at the
arises.

M. DU CHAILLTTS TRAVELS IN AFRICA.
The celebrated African explorer, M. du Cimino
gave • lecture on his travels in Equatorial Africa'
UM Friday evening, at the Royal Hotel Amicably
Rooms, on behalf of the Weymouth Sanatorium,
before • large aod fashionable sanimbly. The chair
was taken by G. Bishop Esq., with whom M. do
Chant is on • visit at Weymouth, and through
whom he was Induced to give this lecture.
Oa the platform besides were Dr. Smith, Dr.
Moorhead, and Mr. Coulson. Amongst the
company were Mrs. 8. Stone, Mr. G. fittooe,
the Misses Gortou, Major Cam Sykm, Mr.
end Mrs. Moss, Mrs. Bergner, Mr. A. B. Foster,
Miss Kinsella-, Mrs. Maclean, Dr. and Mrs. Simp-
son, Mr. and Mrs. W. Thompson, the Maces
Mr. B. Elliott, Mrs. M. Thomas, the Rey. J. Stephen'
non, the Rev. F. Fisher, Mr. W. H. P. Wigton,
hllrnlwes Miss SyketCaptein Beniteit, Mr. Owen,
the Rev. J. and Mr.. Vamtrey. Mr. and Ilion firros,
Mria Walters, the Miami Gresham, Mr. Miller, Col.
and Miss Millman, Mr. and Mrs. T. Freaks, Mr. J. T.
Martin, Captain Swan, Mrs. and the Misses Heigheei,
Mr. and Mrs. Austin, General and Mrs. Shirley,
Mr. Stafford, Au. The 'wearer lie men small In
MMus, with • wiry frame and hell evideetly
endowed with much activity LA peammemace, He
Is of Frisch origin, and spooks broken English in •
manner at times difficult to andantes& He relates
the amusing incidents which befell kim with meoli
vivacity, and his stories are reciamed the more
piquant by the French idiomatic, form of expreecion
which he frequently =Ploy,: His lecture wee
illmoiroiod by • map of the region through which he
lied travelled, diagrams of skeletons a hOlllO and
frogiodpcm gorilla, and Odom of gorillas in Use
forest, and natives of the oonstry.
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Quintus said he had much odiiiiir. la
'exodus* to them his old and vslsoil friend it
do malls, who had kindly sonsented to deliver a
Mature= his last Mamas sad adventures in equatorial
Airlift, for the handl of the Weymouth Plansiorinen.
He had no doubt they would end the Meters interest-
ing. He would not take up their time any longer, but
1..,. 11. du Month to 'peek for himeetf--lapplanse)
B. DO Clutha), who was cordially welcomed, said
his oiled in cow* beton them wee to try to the beet
of his ability to give time a bird'eoye view of the
swentry he bad explored &wing Me lea jemmy is
Melo% witleit wee awls to the sosli of the Squalor,

While his former journey was for the greater part to the
north of the line. There could be no doubt now from
his last explorations that from the sea, as far as be had
been, the country was nothing but a vast jungle—b
teaea almost impesserable forest. The jug":
further than his explorations, but he learnt
by bemire, u far Lathe natives knew, it was from two or
three degrees math of the Equator, to the rune
distame north of it. Now and then trades like gems
wen to be seen in that sea (if be might so express it) of
everlasting foliage. The mountains began about 60 or
Mulles lathe interior, and between the mountains and
the sea the country was low and marshy, interspersed
with short rivers, which had their soothe in the first
range of mountains. There were two rivers which broke
through the chain of mountains. the Rambo and the
Nobel, bat he had not explored the latter.
In that great woody wilderness there were no beasts of
burden—no cattle, no donkeys, no camels. The
useet he was sorry to say, or rather the women, were
the only beasts of burden, for women in that country
worked while the men did sothing—(laughter). He
was surprised at the absence of thou species of animals
which he had found in every other part of Africa—
there were neither lions, rhinoceroses, no sebrat nor
large herds of elands and antelopes, of which they had
heard so mash in other puts all were entirely unknown.
The country was but very scantily inhabited by man,
and still less by beasts, but there were many different
tribes of people, who all spoke different languages or
dialed., and thus the great difficulty arose that be could
not travel far without meeting with • people who spoke
• language he could not understand, and occasionally he
had to stay a few mooths to learn their speech. Hap.
r, their languages were not very difficult.
They bad few words as they had but few emote,
and many of the tribes Gould only count to
number five. Yet their languages were beautiful;
each 'unable was well sounded, and therefore
the words were easily learned. Though near the
equator, the heat was not so great as in countries
further removed. The greatest beat he experienced in
the shade was 96 diT‘.,:nd the most intones in the
sun was 148.1 The coldest days he
had felt were 64 egrets, and it e 7 were very
few. There were two mesons the rainy sal
the dry. The latter season extended from
June or July to September, and in the mountainous
Maiden the rainy season lasted all the year round, se
that it was very unpleasant to travel in that orentry,
being wet every day—(langhter). The height of the
mountains varied from SOO feet to 2,500 feet, and the
country berme more elevated is be proareded towards
the interior. Beside the leading range there were
smaller bills, therefore he no had plateau to follow, but
had to cram mountains up and down from morning to
night. One of the great difficulties he had to encounter
ass that everything had to be serried on the backed men
—being partly civilised, though baring lived for some-
time in the forest, be objected to women carrying his
baggage—(hem, hear, and laughtar)—but his scruples
entailed upon bins much incouvenienoe. When he
started for the coast he had 150 porters to parry his
hangs, for be intended to be three years in that
country. He had to freight • little *chooser in London,
bemuse there was no trade between an, part of Europe
or America and the Fernand Tax. When he arrived
at the Gummi mad, the first thiog he did was to get
upset in the breakers. Thews at Weymouth had some
idea of what breakers were, but on that eoast there mire
six rollers in each breaker from ten to fifteen feet high.
But, happily, after the breakers had spent their fury
there wax usually • lull, end it was during those lulls,
which, however, were very uncertain and limited
in their duration, the only chance °marred
of reathing the shore. Unfortunately, in his
ease, the lull did not last long enough, and their es
was upset. By this he lost all his astronomical lasers-
menta, and was obliged to wait on the mast ten months,
while • seeped est was sent for from England, before he
eould alert for the interior. When he inquired of the
native. "Where do you come from?' they all panted
towards the oast He found no truss of cuinibrin as
he did in his former journey. In the Int hook be
published be stated that the cannibal tribes had some
from a north-easterly direction, according to what he
wee told, and it proved to be perfectly sorrece, so that
during his last journey be had not the pleasured having
a fat negro offered to him to eat —(laughter). The
county was very well watered, and though be had but
little to Mt be had plenty of water, sod he would rather
haw* plenty of water even if obliged to endure scarcity
of food Clear streams of water came from the mountains,
and it was quite a trial for bim to have good water,
with now and then a monkey they killed to eat—
(laughter). In traversing the interior be journeyed from
village to village by the little paths connecting them,
remaining at each dace till he got accustomed to the
Inhabitants and obtained fresh porters, when he started
for a new tithe, and so ha continued to the end of his
journey. He went op the Fernand Vas to
the village of Gounibi, where there was
• powerful chief who he had mat on his preceding
journey, named Quentin:a. He had brought special
presents for his Majesty, having tried to select such
as would please hint They comprised a beadle's met
of the meet glaring colours, blue with yellow fringe
lined with red, a yellow plumb waistcoat, a beadle's staff
and a bat. As his Majesty did not wear trousers than;
ratans did not form part of the snit. The king put on
the robes and the has, and took in his hood the staid
0,1101, when he asked for • looking-glass, and after sap
espying himself for some time with evident satisfaction,
he said, "I am • gmi looking man after all"—(laughtsr).
He was • fine old 01S0 75 years of age. He Mayed there
for • few days and then started for the Bakalai country,
where he explored for sometime, and hunted the gorilla,
and though the gorilla now began to be an old story,
perhape they might like to bear • little about it. The
jungle seemed especially made for the home of the
gorilla. They were vegetuiaas, feeding on berries,
nuts, and cones of the forest, eating no listh whatever.
He opened the stomach of every gorilla be or his
men killed, and never found any animal matter there,
which was most extraordinary, considering their
animate aireezah. He thee referred to the diagrams
of skeletons of a man and • gorilla prepared
by Professor Owen, and said he had killed two
gorillas larger than that exhibited, one of which mu
six inches taller. The man shown as the diagram was
ft. 10 in. high. By the relative sine of the bones of
the two skeletons they mold judge of the difference in
the strength of the tweets's:ism The nun could not 'him
to possess mare house than the gorilla, and both hsti
the same number of teeth. The gorilla had 13 pairs of
ribs, hut it was said the first man had the same number,
though now man bad one leas. The vertebra was the
same In each. The gorilla had 32 teeth the .me as
man, at least those who had wisdom teeth. Gorillas
seamed all to be widowed with wisdom, as they all Ind
33 teeth, which number was not always found in the
human species. One of the gorillas be captured he
brought to Englaod,and another died after being on board
ship four weeks, when all the plaintain was eaten, for
It mold not be got to feed upon bread, or bailed, or any
civilised food. There was a great difference in this
respect between the gorilla and the ehimpanses. An
animal of the latter spades was tamed by the mead day
after its capture. A ohimpannse be saught WY pre-
sented to the Curial Pelee', but, unfortunately, the
poor bead was burnt in the fire that took place
lately. Madame Gorilla never had more than •
single young one, and they never made may shelter,
unlike the bald-headed shimpannee, which seemed to be
the wisest of all monkeys—he did not know if it was
because of the baldness, though belied heard it said that
the bald head wee a sign of wisdom—(laughter).• The
Datives were exceedingly afraid of the chimpanzees ;
they were perfectly masters of the forest. Strange to
say, gorillas were most numerous between the river and
Cape St. Catherine, and he should not wonder if
It was there Hann*, the Cartbagenian navigator,
saw them. Benno related that be saw wild -hairy
men on the island after ceasing the Southern Horn
amid his party succeeded in capturing three females,
and Pliny mentioned that the three skins were
hung up in the temple of Juno when the navigators
returned to Carthage. Hanno said the natives called
them gorilla., which was not very different from its
native name at the present day mina or ngills. The
population of the Beheld eountry were very warlike,
and were continually fighting with each other. He was
sorry to my that • great many of the wars arose on the
amount of the women —the wows' in this smutty
were the peso* makers, but in that they were
the war makers, and polygamy was greatly the cease of
It, A man there married as many wives as be amid,
and the number of his wives was the sign of his wealth.
King Qnenarmas had • large number of wives, and when
be asked him how many thildren he had be replied, "I
don't know and don't care," bathe bad • great member.
Slavery was an institution of the country, extending as
far es he bad travelled. Number of dares was also an
indication of wealth. It was very amosiet. see an
old thief to th
make lave. He went e village, which
usually consisted of a single strut, and walked from
one end to the other when it was dark, and ordered his
wives to love hien. A man paid the father to marry •
daughter, and he was told by • chief that when he
wanted • wife on going to the father he looked salt be
did not care for the girl, because if he showed that be
wanted her, the father would ask a Wei high price for
her. When be told them in England men had only
one wife, ie., those who were reamed, they said it was a
very bed law, and the womau were always against him
on that subject He told them he was • bachelor
self, but some of his friends who were married said
they had quits enough to do to manage one wife, and
, did not know what they should do if they had more.
I The villages of the Behanl were fenced, and the homes
were without doors at the rear for fear of being sm.
pried by enemies. It was the custom of the Salesian
not to sleep at night for fear of the devil, because they
fended he came more at night then at any other time.
He told them they were all devils together. Al soon
as it beams dark they began to dome and palaver,
and when day arrived the women went to the plants-
Soo. followed by • few men with spears and gulm,
to watch over them. The men eat the trees and the
women cultivated the soil, and it was the same all Over
Africa. The men were very hermit to their wives.
When a man was angry with his wife he upbraided
her,ssi hag, "Do yoa think I paid year father • great
deal of moony for you to do like this?' and gave her a
few stripes on the beck with • whip made from the hide
of the hpopetainits, and said, "You mast 10ve.,,, and
do as I tell you., or I will give you • few more stripes
next lima." He told them that WY • fanny way to
make their wives love them, het they said It was the
only way. They said to their wives "If you love me,
pt me plenty to eat ; " and an old Still rid
when he found that big wife brought him Wises
of fish or plantain every day tI can% heyp
thinking my wife loves me, for she ogres for me—
(laughter). They were continually fighting with each
other, and meditated their warfare in • carioca manner.
A man in one village would go end kill • man of asother
village, and get that village to take his side, and so they
went on till in • few moothe the whole country was
Involved In war. One of the greatest GUMS of the
mweanettykry,"lnc wimantahcdndistdt" if Ancrdt beiritcht4edithebbelisty moinaelhodibe
y
am Wimp • woman died it we. very seldom dm!
killed anybody' one, but if amen died they were rare to
kill a number. Ts.• deo believed lii arrears- Some.
times a men would get °pill the marning and my some.
body treated RI
bewitch him, mai if he were • powerful
thief he would order a drink mads from • pleat of the
ear modes tribe to be Islllstehlhld b,whicb9fioutof
100 well poisoned. fionistirsee they Md ad wait for that
ea
So operate, but killed them at owe. They had an 'a
that when • great man died they muse kill • _w more
to keep him company in the other world; yet if asked
...sale is another
ff believed they were going to die kaaa
weea Itwy sad there was no stash thing.ws=
in the
that whim a maa died his spirit
flee* sad they liked to • iew of his wives or slaves
" kill" himooolPlukr, The askew, beweeefe Inn ale

creel, except wbea animated by their superstitions, but
when witchcraft was In question there was no
mode of torture they would not employ. Hs
had seen people tied to trees, all gashed with knives
sod thornlike' all filled with °swains pepper. At au;
times, he was told, they tied a man in the forest, sad
most terrible ante, which had a powerful sense of smells
would come and eat him up Is two or three hours.
Sometimes the people of • whole village thought they
were going to be bewitched, end could not be satisfied
till they had killed half-a-closen or more, after which
they would remain quiet for a few months, end then
have another palaver. Witchcraft was the treat curse
of Afrioa—sreater even than slavery itself. In the past
he had travelled there was hardly any slave Sniffle at
all, except amongst the natives themselves. They
•ever owned slaves of their own tribe. From the
Bakal"' be proceeded to the Ashira, where the people
became more interesting and industrious He even
found some working at • loom. They manufactured
their cloth from grass, and used no English fabrics As
soon as the traveiler got beyond the pogrom who had
intercourse with white men, they were found to be more
Industrious. They worked iron and pottery very
beautifully, end were morediogly kind and amiable.
He then referred to his visit to the falls of Samba
Naacishi, which was • torrent of fearful velocity and
grand proportions, on the river NgougaL Bare, as
everywhere, superstitution entered, and the legend was
that • spirit lives in the falls, who was Is old times •
mighty forger of iron. While in dshira-!and, • plague
of small-pox broke out In the village of Olends, and de-
stroyed three-fourths of the people. He was amused of
being the cause of this visitation. They believed him to he
• midi bringing the plains wherever he same. All his
people fell ill, and he Weems very wretched. Before he
went to Africa he was reneein•ted, and to that he
attributed his life being saved. He afterwards went
Into the Othodo country, • large but thinly populated
district: he was travelling five days without seeing •
single village. HO was three days without any food,
except two monkeys amohrt 11 people. On going into
the interior, where the natives had not before seen •
white man, be was thought to be a spirit. As soon as
he made his appearance the chief same and offered him
all the ladies of the village for wives, which he politely
deelined—(langhter). At first they were very shy, and
he remained there one or two months for them to get
accustomed to him. The chief, whose name was Mayolo,
was very kind to him. One evening he asked
K. du Chsillu about the white men's manner of living.
When he told him they lived In stone houses he could
not understand it. He showed them pictures of the
elephant, with which they were delighted. He had
several method bones, End they wondered how they
could go alone, ant said the devil was holding inter-
ment with him. He had also • galvanic battery, and
the news soon spread that be had • very wished
thing, for he had given them • few Mocks,
and afterwards no one would come near him for
weeks Their idea of music was very peculiar.
anything that made a noise would do. He then
described the tam-tam and other native instruments
Including a kind of harp with seven strings, which were
mule 01 vegetable fibre. He than visited the Napo.*
region, where, if money was not at par, beads and red
cape, and looking-glasses were, and the presents that
pleased them most consisted of throe or four limiter
matches. It was amusing to use how carefully they
put the matches sway in their fetish house. He found
moos the (Sandal and Naponos an 'Unordinary
custom. He found little huts near their villages,
where they kept the bones of their ancestors is
powdered chalk. When a man died they cut of hit
head, and put it in the fetish house till it was decayed,
when they made a little cake of the chalk and rubbed
themselves with it when starting on any great expedi-
tion, and invoked the spirit of their enoeeters to go
with them. When they had a friend they loved, from
whom they expseted to get something, they would
wraps a little from the old dried skull and put it in his
food, which they said made him of the same blood as
that ancestor, and they could not then help being
generous towards them. The chief of the Napono
offered • dish with some scraped skull in to him, but
there was one consolation the skull was very dry, and
could not taste mush. The Napooos had no VIM,
bet it was the custom for every man to carry
• sabre, and it was their great ambition to poi.
IMO such • weapon, lemma the women would not have
• man for • husband unless he had a sabre to protect
them and their tribe if attacked. They were about the
greatest drunkards he aver ; they were tipsy from
morning to night, and he believed all night too, exempt
when they went to sleep. They had four kinds of drink;
the first made from the palm tree; the second from
the plaintain fermented for a few days; the third was
made of hooey mu water; and the fourth from pounded
sugar cane. They did not like the latter very well,
because it gave them such • headache the next day.
The 'shops were • fine tribe, and the women had •
peculiar mode of dressing the hair. When he left
England the chignon was not in fashion, so he had no
none for their style of head-dress The Lamp women
had three modes of dressing the hair. The lint was to
train the hair into • tower-shaped mom elevated from
eight to 14 inches from the mown of the head, the hair
from the forehead to the chignon and also that of the
beck part up to the ears being closely shaven. It was
• very hard matter in that country to wear • chignon,
but it was all their own hair as far as he could under-
stand—(laughter). A chignon breed about two months,
and required a whole day to work it. During those
two months the incest world ineressed greatly. The
great ambition of the girls was to be old enough to wear
▪ chignon. Both men and women adopted the custom
of pulling out the two middle incisors from the
upper Jaw, and filing the corresponding one to a point,
so that the coup-cl-atil of sat labogo belle was something
extraordinary—(laughter). They tattoed themselves
but wore no ear-rings. They were food of beads and
exceedingly kind-hearted. He could sot make them
think that they would look better if they had their
fore teeth instead of pulling them out. It was the
mutant for every wife to have a house of her own.
Us could buy a woman there for about the same price
as he bought • goat, about 25.—(laaghter). He was
glad to ssy those people did not dog their wives. The
men were all inveterate smokers and great drunkards.
The negroes were very cunning, and being feud of
eating meat, as it was very sauce in that country, they
made • law that the women should not eat goats or
fowls, and as there was no other meet in the country,
except a few monkeys, the men had it all their own way
—(hingliter). It was ooly by purchasing goats, and
Mlling them as he peoeseded, that he mold obtain
porters, as they said they would follow the spirit, because
be gave them plenty best They were also smokers of
hemp, which made them mad in • few years.
when they ran into the woods and either
died there or were Wen by leopards. He then
alluded to the terrible number and voracity of the
African ants. When he killed a make, his
men cooked and ate it for their next meal.
He never tested snake soap himself, but he supposed it
was very good—(laughter). He afterwards arrived
among the [Mange', whose fetish houses he described.
These people were exceedingly warlike, and their meths
and arrows were poisoned. Their villages were ex-
ceedingly clean and- well ordered. Many of the streets
were 50 to 100 yard' wide, and were in such a elate ma to
do honour to any civilised country. Iron was very
plentiful and they manufactured their own swords end
spears with barbs of which be knew something, as he
had had Won his holy. He then told of a visit to the
°Wages, • village of dwarfs, avenging 4 ft 3 in.. where
• man of 5 IL 7 io. was considered a giant. The Obese.,"
In habits were MONO hat similar to the Beropean gipsies ;
there were stunt tribes of them but they never mixed.
He bad wondered to himself whether these were the
pigustes described by Harodotus, and If they followed
the customs of the other tribes, viz., emigrating from
mat to west. He thee referred to an important incident
which mourred at the village of Monson Limbo, where
one of his men moidsotally killed a man and • woman,
the war-cry was raised, and he was in great danger.
With diffoulty, sod the loss of his photographs
and other results of his reesarehes, they reamed
the forest path. They were followed, and in
skirmish he was wounded in the aide with •
poisoned arrow, but the weapon passing through his
I leather bolt moped of a portion of the poison so that
I hefeltnolllcfeete. He WM also struck on ih• bend
• with as arrow, and one of his fingers was eat to the
bath Having reached the coast, he found • vessegalea
r lag to Zeeland within six days. The kind
nubbin gays him some Moths; but as the aspthin was
. flit, lin., and stout in properties, they did not fit him
exaditHe them told of hie bindles at Dartmouth and
his subsequent looney to London. In courilusios be
. thanked e audience for their attention to his begun
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Dr. 8111111
i proposed a vote of thanks to IL du
Chaillu, for the nteresting lecture he had given them.
Mr. Cootaou seconded the proposition and said be
hoped that those who had denounced as untrue the
statements made by IL du Chaillu in his arst book,
would now, dim the. publication of his woad travels,
with the record of astronautical facts at the end which
oould not be gainsayed, have tba booed, and the mos
to declare that %boy were saislakso and that the
explorer wee richt --(applause).
IL DU CHLILIA aoknowledged the ooropliment.
Dr. MOOSIMAD proposed a vote of thanks to the
Chairman.
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Dr. Swint wooded the motion and observed that
Mr. Bishop had given £BO. besides many £5 Dotes
toward* the Weymouth Banstorium—(applanee). He
had felt that • sum of £5OOO was required to provide an
endowment for the institution, and be hoped at the
next annual meeting in .dogust to bare the pieasure
of announcing more than half that sem was submit:rid
—(applause). He tionsidered that was a very proud
position for so young an institution to have attained—
(applause).
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The CaLuaus briefly returned thenka.
The meeting then sepersted.