The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-07-13
Du ChaiIiu in s'cU trail Africa.

'h ANf evening 81 NiaN IN WI. Iu htiA4u
tie renowned African explorer, lectured before
the Traveller Club. From the Worlds report
We give the GLOWING extracts
WHAT HE HAS IoNE.
have studied the natural history of the coun-
Try. especially the insects. birds. rorillas, CHM
INnzs, the astronomy and geography of the
country. and when j have t. put all that IN n
lecture | find il very hard, | assure YOU. Ii is
Ear more difficult To- put down your thoughts when
YOU come hack from your travels than it Is 10
travel in thc~c foreign countries. During the
ten wears I was there | made a large collection. /
succeeded in collecting ~ gorillas. the skins of
which | have here or in England. | sent p dur
Ing the first trip.
| also secured Is chimpanzce's skins and SKULLS.
more than 1000 binds, thousands of insects
shells, and also succeeded in securing 100 skulls
of negroes. not for pleasure. but as a matter of
science. IGreat laughter.l The negroes could
not understand what | wanted. ut first. l had To
be very careful about the skulls. They thought
l was crazy. They said That man, what does
he want? lie is always running in the woods;
he is always wild. Now he wants 10 buy the
skulls of our forefithers.' They were very shy
about it at first they always came ut night to
sell me the skulls. Now and then, a man would
be very angry he said he bad gone In the burial
place. and thought be could get the skulls of his
father. and somebody had stolen it. Laughter.
At night they would come to my house latc-l0
o'clock-with a barrel in which was carefully
packed a skull. Everyone said You must not
tell Everyone said the same thing. laugh
ter. | was glad to get these skulls. They are
certainly pure-bloOded negroes. Ii is Il great
thing for Us To save the skulls.
ANTIQUITY or THE GORILLA.
Some part of the country / have explored was
perhaps known to the great Carthaginian nayiga-
tor, of whom it was related that he captured
three female gorilias, but they were 50 ferocious
that he was obliged to kill them and Pliny men-
D ,.,. IL, a.. uI.pS 400. St,lI - tho tnpny 1n 20
Juno. when the Romans took Carthage. How
ever. the gorilla remained unknown until lately
he has been brought to light again.
DwAEFs.
In these vast iungles | visited more than thirty
tribes. Among them were the dwarfs from three
TO four and from four To five feet high. These
dwarfs always move westward. Towards the
headwatcrs OF the Nile. wherever | have question
ed negroes about where they came from, they
have always moved from the east towards the
west. These tribes are exceedingly warlike.
They are not very wild.
CANNuALS.
Among them are ennibal trihcs-lisht-colored,
tall and stout. They are skiliul in the working
of iron. They work iron most beautifully. The
mountains are in the interior covered with iron.
Being warlikc, they are constantly making all
sorts of instruments to kill each other. In that
country they cat all their prisoners; only the
kinrs arc buried. People who die of disease are
'N'h my b"'1 N"H' ''phA
fifty yards of the missionary station and dug up
bodies to be eaten. | had nobody with me when
| was among them, hut ! found them very kind
towards me. OF course | toLl them it was very
bad to eat human flesh, but they told me, and
they satisfied me, that next To human flesh the
g0rilla's flesh was the best. | said TO them,
Why don't YOU kill gorillas ?' But they can't
kill them because they have no guns. They can't
Kill them with their spears.
THE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT.
Of the language of the country l had great
difficulty to acquire any knowledge. | had In
stay q long time among one tribe in order To ac-
quirc tle language. 1t was only with great diff
culty | could come to their power Of thinking.
The great difficulty was to get to the level of
thinking of these negroes. 1t is quite rs difficult
for us t. come to their standard as it is for the
negro Ia come to our level of thinking.
RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION.
Their attempts to explain their religion to me
have failed. Every attempt to explain 10 me
their supcrstitions and religions | have not been
able to understand the beginning or the end of at
all. L have had to give it up in despair.
ALMOST STARVED.
have Travelled in the jungles for days without
meeting Il single settlement of the sayages. having
fought against hunger and starvation. | do not
know how many times l have been over three
days without getting anything to eat except leaves.
THE MONKEY As CHIEF faster.
l Travelled with a monkey, and when I got hun
CRY | made the monkey smell of the leaves and
berries. If the monkey ate the leaves and Der
rics. | thought they would be good enough for me.
Applause and laughter.l Bat the monkeys
taste and mine did not always agree, for 1 found
that he would eat of very bitter food. Laughter.
MONKEY STEAK.
But when n man is very hungry he is not very
particular, You know. Yet / never killed my pet
monkey, although | subsequent. found that mon
key flesh was very good. [laushter.I Well,
why not? You needn't make Il face, young
lady you can't tell me the first reason why we
should not eat monkey. "Tley are SO much like
a MANI Don't think ,.,is.
RAIN AND woMEx's RIGHTS.
IF there is not much To cat in the jungle. there
il plenty To drink, for il rains nine months of the
year and by way of change. it rains all the year
round. IIaughter.l There are beasts of burden
To carry your luggage. aud 1t has to he carried on
mems backs, or womcn's backs. | succeeded
finally IN preventing the women from carrying my
baggage, but | had great difficulty. You would
see Il lazy man carrying his spear. while his wives
were loaded with Piantains. The food of the
country Is plantains. You have n great while To
travel in that country without meeting settle
ments. and these plantains-a sort of banana
must be carried. Some of the lunches will
weigh from l25 To $50 pounds. Eighty pounds
will only be sufficient for three or four days.
LAZINEss.
The first day they are so lazy that they never
think of Tomorrow. They find the load Of plan
tains heavy. and they lop off Il part secretly, and
throw it in the woods. On the third day they
say, sob, if we had only known this We would
have kept the plantains." [Laughter.l
THE DEVIL.
They believe in the worship of idols. They
also believe in evil spirits. When they are killed,
they always believe the devil Ia be the cause of
it. Laughter. When a man is sick they come
and fire near ms cars in hopes of driving the
devil out of his head. They think that by driv-
ing the devil out the sick man will get well. But
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