The Shasta courier., 1866-04-14

elnn, whom they desire to receive gifts OF
iIss ~ under the impression that if be
NJ &c their relatives bones he becomes as
CO. CO. of themselves. In the Napono country,
,h;cb lies to the southeast of the Otando
.ountrv the people were brave; all the men
.rore swords. and all were drunk from morn
inc til night--ther drink being distilled
frem the sugar cane, honey, the plaiEtain,
anJ the plane tree The people were d.
rided into clans, like the Scotch, the chill
dren following the mothers clan, and the
nepbews or SISTERS SON succeeding, instead
of the direct descendant.
NJ. du Chaillu, speaking of nelghbor
ing people. Ishaugo, showed some specimens
of their palm fibre fabrics. which they wore
as clothes, much better in quality than the
cotton cloths which Manchester sends to
Africa Laughter. They were very gen.
tie people, and living among them, or in
neghboring tribes. were tribes quite nomad,
like gipsies who lived much like gipsies.-
Passing almost due eastward. and traversing
another range of mountains, where it was
always cloudy and rainy, they reached
Monaco Kemba. Willing to leave on ac
count of the rainy weather, they were still
detained by the King, who said he thought
himself made little of by their intended de
parture. The King received them. and
promised, as he was man of true heart,
that the travellers would be allowed to go on
the next day. But in firing guns to amuse
the court with the noise they made, a man
was accidentally killed, and great commo-
ZION and excitement was caused, and no pal
aver could be obtained to explain the cir
cumstance. Things looked threatening and
NJ. du Chailu rdered his men to retreat
which they did in good ORDER but some OF
them were wounded. as was also the l. ader
of the expedition himself, by the murderous
arrows shot at them.
Ultimate y. however, panic seized his
followers who cast away the precious arti-
cles they had to carry he himself had drop
ped his sextant, in order TO save the ammu-
milton he bore. They had to fight their way
from nine a. m to five p. M, to pass through
the villages, and repulsed the pursuers five
times during the day. They had eaten
nothing since the day before. That night
they passed in the forest. AT midnight they
got up, and with great caution proceeded to
pass through the village lying before them,
which they did without interruption. The
chief met them, said he had heard of the ac-
cdent. and told them they might move on,
as he wanted no war with the white man.
So they retraversed the path they had orig
inaly followed toward the coast. Nj. du
ChaIIlu reached the coast, saving all his guns
save one rifle, but he had still more guns
than people. Here he took ship for Eng
land, but was nearly wrecked at the entrance
of Dartmouth harbor. He had been in rags
on leaving Africa, and on the voyage had to
wear clothes lent to him. He reached Lon
don in clothes borrowed from the Captain,
and with money borrowed from some Of the
passengers. In conclusion, NJ. du Chaillu
expanded into a very warm and emotionate
expression of thanks to Sir Il. Murchison
for his manifold kindness formerly and
since HIS spoils he had left upon the bat
| tletield, but that was inevitable. To all his
| friends be EXPRESSED his warm thanks, and
he sat down amid great applause.
Professor Owen thea spoke in support of
| the veracitv of NJ du Chaillu, remarking
| that all the statements for which be had
been most attacked had been borne out by
| subsequent evidence He had for instance.
made the unweicome announcement that he
had met with race of cannibals. That
statement had been called in question but
| it had been confirmed by Captain Burton,
who had foil wed him over the district he
had traversed. Then with respect to the
corillas, he felt sure that if Nj. du Chaillu
had given any false account of their habits
he should have found s,me traces of that
falsehood in that knowledge he had been
able to obtain of the conformation of those
animals. He had not, however. the sight
est reason to suppose that what had been
said by NJ. du Challu on the subject was in
the slightest respect untrue. Hear, hear.
Mr. Dunkin, one of the assistants Of the
Greenwich Observatory. then came for
ward and stated that ne had been astonished
at the multitude and the accuracy of the as
tronomical observations which NJ. du Cha llu
has made.
Mr.. J. Crawford, the chairman said he
felt it to be his duty to declare that he found
it impossible to believe in the existence of a
race of dwarfs which NJ du Chaillu stated
he had met in Africa These people. if the
statement was correct, were smaller than
any human beings that had yet been known,
and be could not understand how it was pos
sible that they could live in the midst of 9th
er races. who appeared TO speak the same
| language.
NJ du Chaillu observed that as these peo-
pie ran away when he approached tn m, he
had been abe to examine only one or two OF
their number but with respect to them, he
had only to repeat facts as they came under
his observation. Hear, hear.