The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-26
Just as he was on the polnt Of going to Otanga

especially as he had been vaccinated Just before
leaving London; but he asked his men to 90
back and not riskather lives. This at first they
refused to do, but afterwards number of them
eit. The natives accused him OF having killed
their chief, who died of the disease. This made
his position more dangerous. He was uuwell,
the heat was iutolerable, and for months he had
to endure torments. Deputatons. from sur
rounding tribes were sent to him, saying he
would not be allowed to go through their terri
tory. II was, however, possible to 90 through
part of the Otanga country. n four days journey,
without seeing village, and this part he set out
to explore. ia.# ...a
Before long the plagne broke out among his
men; some of the natives ran away with por
ton OF his goods, and lost, SICK, and nearly
starving, he and his men supported life for day
or two by eating two monkeys, and really the
meat was not 80 bad under the circumstances.
He was afterwards allowed to proceed by the
Otanga people. ....H... I" '
Here a very cuiious custom prevails. When
OeIson dies they cut off his head, and put it IN
box surrounded with clay or chalk, the whole
OF which is saturated as the head decays. The
descendant OF the deceased rubs his body with
this clay or chalk, praying to his ancestor at
the same time to give HIM luck. When he
receives guest and wants to make great friend
of him, he goes to the place where the heads OF
his relatives are kept, scratches bit of the
skull of one of his ancestors, and puts this bone
powder in the dish intended for his friend who
having eaten OF it becomes of one blood with
himself, therefore must love him truly, open his
heart and give him whatever he desires. He
(M. du Challlul might have eaten little of that
bore powder himself but he hoped that he had
not (Laughter.)
TIE Napono tribes, whom he next visited,
were avery warlike people, wearing iron swords,
which they made themselves, as the country
contains ironstone, specimens of which he had
brought to England. The natives here so
I quarrelsome that he did not see man who had
not some cuts about his body; moreover, they
are incorIgible drunkards. They have three
intoxicating liquors, made respectively from the
sugar-cane, honey, and the sap of the palm tree
The Napono people treated him well, never took
anything from him, and he had nothing to say
against them. From here the country rises
rapidly--mountains, mountains, mountains,
othing but mountains, up and down for months.
One village ie reached from another bv path
through forest, and the said path cannot be
left He believed the whole of Africa could be
traversed by these little paths, and In the direc-
ton he journeyed they took tolerably straight
line
The villages are large, sometimes containing a
thousand people, bat situated considerable
distance apart. The people are divided into
Clans very much like the Scotch /; only man
belongs to his mothers clan, not to his fathers.
AT Mokena in the sugar country, people make
very good cloths; some of the natives dress
fashionably, swing their arms aristocratically,
and are perfect dandies. The cloth is very good,
much better than that obtaiued from Manches-
te1-not that Manchester does not make good
cloth, but the best of it is never seen by the
natives -Qaughter)- not sold in Africa.
THE PIGMIEs.
In the Ashapgi country he saw little huts four
feet high, forming villages, generally uninha-
blted, because the dwarts who sometimes live in
them lead wandering, gypsy lite. The abort
glnes seem to regard these dwarfs with superstI-
uous awe. and he could get few opportunities to
examine them. The women were less afraid of
him than the men, who ran away; so on one oc-
cason he had the opportunity of measuring
them, and he found the 7erage height of the
women to be four feet four inches to four feet
five inches, .-.
Nearer the Obongo country he came upon
mountains again. He reached Monaco Kombo,
the iarthest point of his Journey. at the end OF
July, ard wished to return, because he was
afraid of the rainy season. The chief of the
people wished him to remain, and on one occa-
sion while he and the chief were in converse
ton, one OF the exploring party, who fred gun
to please the natives, who we're fond OF hearing
the noise, accidentally shot man, who instantly
| fell! down dead. M. du Chaillu in an instant
found a threatening crowd round him, and Just
as he had persuaded them to listen to his state
ment about its being an accident woman
| joined the crowd, bringing the news that the
same bullet had penetrated her hut and killed
her sister.
He and his party retreated with all speed to
| the narrow paths in the woods, followed by but
not firing upon the natives, who occasionally
| shot at them with poisoned arrows, one OF which
wounded him alter passing through thick
| wooden belt, which perhaps saved his lite. His
| men were seized with panic, and threw away
| most OF his apparatus and specimens, and after
| various mishaps he reached the Achita country.
| the place would be his grave. Finally he
| reached the coast, and found ship bound for
| London.
He concluded by thanking Sir Roderick Muir
| Gibson and Professor Owen for the true friend
| ship they had ever shown him, and acknowl.
| edged the kindness at the hands OF the Royal
| Geographical Society. -
Professor Owen said that the west coast of
| Africa was most dangerous and deadly one for
| Europeans to expore; and M. du Chaillu had not
only done his work well but accurately. He
then warmly defended M. du Chaillu from the
| attacks made by many reviewers, in the matter
| OF his descriptions of the habits of that diaboli-
| cal animal the gorilla, the nest building of the
| chinlpanzee, the otter, which some BIOLOGISTS
| laughed at as a rodent animal" and the native
| harp, with strings of a tibrous material.
| Sir Roderck Murchison said that M. du Chaillu
| had actually given him one of the harps that he
| next gave it to one of the most accomplished
| harp players N England the Duchess of Yelling
| ton, and that excellent music had been obtained
from ii in her hands. The statement about the
| harp was nothing but the truth.
| Mr.. Kunkin, one of the assistants at Green
| wich Observatory, stated that M. du Chaillus
| latitude observations had been worked out and
| found to be very accurate. The calculations Of
the longitude observations were not yet finished.
He supposed most of his hearers knew very little
about astronomical observations-(a laugh)-
| and proceeded to give a few explanations re-
| specting them.
M. du Chaillu started for the interior of Africa,
ana he had seen fbrous-stringed harps, besides
learned some of the neighborlng tribes were can
nibals. l-F,sH.L
MIR, John Crawford said that in all that heyhad
| heard the dwarf part of the narrative was the
onIy popt he was inclined TO dispute. There
was no question about the harp; he had seen it
himself at the chronological Society," where vety
decent sounds were obtained from the vegetable
fibre. Still he could not swallow that story
I..N