Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-25

away; You ought to be proud that /
gave you my daughter" They say,
the spirit has not given me anything.
Iou-he,' is the answer. They speak
very plainly in that country; they don't
say you tell small fib. Laughter.
But If the father-in- law, does take the la
dies away, they are sure to come back,
They say they like to be where s'the
spirit Is, meaning myself, for ''now
and then he drops bead where they
are sure to get them"
Their largest number of wives 7 have
seen, think, was three hundred. 7
inquired of one OF their majesties how
many wives he had, aud he said six
hundred .ISensation. The ambition
OF a man is to get wives. In some
countries man must get sword first,
in order TO protect his wife.
/ There are few fowls OF cats, or any
animals that are domesticated IN that
country The women are not allowed
to eat meat. The men have all the flesh
to themselves. Laughter. What the
men leave, goes TO the wives, and after
them, the children are fed. They tell
me: ''You are too kind to your chill
dren; you must make men of them;
make them so that they can live on
Istarvationp
They are very fond of Intoxicating
DRINK, used to demonstrate with them
in vain. They have various kinds of
drinks of palm wine, and plantain, or
honey water, and sugar cane. But the
sugar cane drink gives them the head
EUi,,., a 4 - 4 l. L
horrible brutes they were, they said,
''Look at the gorilla; he drinks water.
daughter When people die they
believe the place is not good. Those
who don't move say the palm trees IRE
all killed, they have all cut down the
palm trees. But, with all this they
are very kind hearted. Although /
was wounded twice among them, it was
my own faul5. One of my men dis
charged gun accidentally, and they
thought we had come to kill them. /
had only seven men with me and had
to fight nay way back to the coast. L
did not blame them. My men had no
business to kill them. / was at thai
time five hundred miles In the interior.
They had no guns aud L succeeded in
reaching the coast.
Sometimes they wOuid rob me, but
they always lett me half of what was In
my packages. They divided fairly as
they could. They always robbed me
by stealth never by force always
when was hunting or away from ne
eessity. They would make a pretence
OF finding out who was the thief, but
never succeeded. Even while they
were trying to plumber me, they wouldal
insist that was their great spirit"
have become so used to starving iii that
country that when [ sit down to
good dinner now / can't eat enough. |
Laughter No lions are found there. |
There are plenty of snakes and a |
great variety of ants. This is probably |
the reason that the quadrnpedsa are not |
found. The ants are SO voracious that |
most of the beasts fly before them. We |
were Obliged to light fires around |
whenever we knew they were near. You
can always tell of their proximity by |
the insects that are flying before them. /
The heat of that country IS very |
grea.-95 in the shade when I55 to 160 /
in the sun-where tile sun was very
powerful it was 80 in the shade TO l66 |
IN the sun near the equator. Lit rained |
225 inches of rain during the year, but |
/ could not perfect my observations |
OWING to the disappearance of my IN
struments. On getting up in the morn
ing | would fad my rain gauges gone. |
OF course 10 was never found out who |
took them. (Laughter.) They were |
very fond of my thermometers. Dur
ing ten years of exploration, / was |
eight years and "a half without seeing |
the face of white man.
Mons. Du Chaiilu closed with mod |
est expression of tine hope that his la
bors, although not so successful as he |
could have wished the last time, would |
still be beneficial to scientific research,
and secure for him at least the friend
ship OF his fellow-men.
The entire address occupied only |
about half an hour IN delivery and |
was spoken in an easy, rapid, converse |
tiOnal tone, eicitiBg frequent laughter |
and a continued buzz of comments.
NJ. Du Chaillu is a bald, bTonzed, di-
shruhken specimen OF hu-
mainly who looks as if Equatorial AZ
RIGA had absorbed bis life blood. He
has, however, a clear eye, a pleasant
face, and sufficiently broken French
accent to make his address charming. -
La his coming lectures before the So
ciety for the advancement of Science,
aud that at the Cooper Institute on the
14th aud 18th instant, he will enter
more minutely into the subject, and
it with diagrams and other
requisite illustrations.
On motion of General Vielle, the |
Club rendered through Mr.. Dunbar TO
the speaker, its hearty thanks Tor his
pleasing entertainment. and after so
cial chat, the Inequalities of the table |
were duly dispensed.