The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-27

so closely together as generally TO excl,iie the
SUM- In many places they may be said 10 be
woven together by tangled masses OF climbing
plants, more resembling the ropes aud cables OF
SShip IN ineXtricable confusion than the grace
Nj NJ, rGiEpeepers with which We are familiar in
NUII,tne'u cEmes.
Ihey eaSN the impression Of being remnants
ooiuts snS th period referred to by geo.
@ 10y 'e'I anu ,Ie 1--we pachydeTmata of that time
them. ~" Trade patbs hat hat could wrigge through
but we had both to widen nod Soiohtao 49,,
for camels and bulfaloes. The pNonie AZ Tho 600
coast had declared that no aid couio be not from
the natives. sO' ''"'
When we were seven miles of we were aeree
ably surprised to find that for reasonable wages
we could employ any number of carriers and
wood cutters we desired. As they we're accus-
TONED to clearing away the gigantic climbers
tor their garden ground, they whitfield away
win their tomahawks with remarkable speed
and skill.
Two days continuous hard labor was a much
az they could stand. II Is questionable whether
any possibly except, possibly, the Chinese, who
ale not meat-eaters, can endure continuous
labor of kind that brings so many muscles
into violent action as this work did. French
nayvies could not compete with the English
until they were ted exactly like the latter.
The Makonde have only fowls a few goats,
and the chance of an occasional gorge OF the
wild hog of the country. Little can be said
about the appearance of the country. BY the
occasional glimpses we got 1t seemed covered
with great masses of dark green foliage, except
where the bamboo gave lighter tint or a stef-
culia had changed lis leaves to yellow in anti
Cipation OF winter.
The path we followed sometimes went along
or across q "wady,r in which we were smothered
see were undisturbed grey sandstone, capped by
ferrueinous conglomerates. Upon this we often
stumbled against blocks of silicl6ed wood that
any one would be unwilling to believe at sight
that they were not stones.
There is sure indication here of coal being
underneath, and pieces OF it were met in the
! Il. - H.
fIom the mouth of the Rovuma the geological
structure changes, and with this change we
! have more open vegetation. The chief rock Is
new syenite, and patches OF hne white dolomite
| lie upon it in spots.
Granite masses have been shot up over the
plain which extends in front all the way TO
Ugamano-the cor fluence of the Rovuma or
Louma, and Loendi. In the drier country we
found that one of those inexplcable drough,s
had happened over tho north bank of tho Ro
Yuma, and tribe of Matte or Mazitu, proba-
bly, Zulus, hadscome down ike a swarm OF
locusts and spread away all the food above and
in the ground.
mad to make forced marches with the Ma
konde In quest of provisions for my party, and
am now with Mathumoia, or Machumora, the
chief at Ugomano and by sending some twenty
miles to the southwest l shall soon succor
them. This is the poin, of confluence, as the
name Tugsmano or Ugomano implies, of the
Louma and Loendi.
The Loendi is decidedly the parent stream
and comes from the south vest, where, in adii-
ton to some bold granite peaks, the dim out
line of distant nigh land appears. Even at that
distance they raise the spirits, bnt possioig that
iS caused partly by the fact that this is about
! nd the threshold of tbe uneXploled.
| Ipropose to make this my Headquarters till I
| have felt my way round Lake Nyassa If pros
poets are fair there need not return, but tr lst
to another quarter for fresh supplies; but it is
best to say little about the future.
Matamora is an intelligent man, and one well
known TO be trustworthy. He is appealed to on
all hands for his wise decisions, but he hst not
much real power beyond what his character
gives him. The Makonde are all independent
OF each other, but not devoid of natural sense
! OF justice.
A carrier stole shirt from one OF my men.
Our guide pursued him at night and seized him
IN his own house, and the elders of bis village
made him pay about four times the value of the
article stolen. No other case of theft occurred.
No dues were demanded, and only one fne-a
very just one-was levied.
Attempts have been made to make the Arabs
pay, but they have always been resisted So
much has been said about Arab prosely tism that
II was with interest inquiries we're made about
their success in converting the Makonde to the
Mahometan faith. Here, as elsewhere, no
attempts to teach have been made.
Some Arabs asserted that il would be useless,
tor the Makonde had no idea of a Deity. Gu
making inquiries about the gum copal digging
was shown tree from which the gum was
actually dropping; but they do not dig under
the trees at present living.
They choose the vicinity in the belief that
near to the modern trees those which yielded
what is now considered fossil gum must have
grown. Here they dig. And" said the
spokesman, 'the first and second days we may
labor, in vain, but God may give 1t to us after
that"
To this acknowledgment of a Deity all re-
sponded, 1T is as He wills it," The expert
mcnt with the bufaloes and tsetze has not
been satisfactory; one buffalo aud two camels
died.
Had we not been in tsetze country, would
hava ospriha1 this N OVprunrk and brOiGpa
ceived on board the dhow which brought them
from ZANZIBAR.
The symptoms were not those / have Oh
served in oxen aud horses when stung by CAD.
flies. Blood of the arterial color flows from the
point.
This may be the effect of the tsetze, for when
an OK known to be bitten was killed, its blood
was all of the arterial hue. | had but four but-
taloes for the experiments, and as yet as three
remain, remain in doubt.
Hoping that this short sketch, which ! write
in haste for an Arab who is passing down 10 the
coast, may be approved, am ETC.