The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-09

and in that country IL rains nine months Of The va,
the coast and shs whole year in the interior
IAughte Night after night you wet through there
The natives are very lazy and make their wives DO
baggage Is carried BY the women when the men are
moving anywhere. All that can be carried is
carried womAn's back. You viii see large
spesr while he women are loaded down with plantans
which are the chief food Of the country. The panlan
10 kind OF banana except that u 10 much larger aud
requires cooking before It d. for food the ba
mana The women often have TO carry food enough to
last whole family for several days. and whsn you Con-
slider thai eighty pounds only about suhcency Tor
three days. and besides that stalks and other refuse
have 70 be carried, you can fancy how these men
men are 50 lazy that they win only think
OF tho present moment and never en.er
tain the least notion OF providing FOR The fosuI ne
beginning Of the journey they will be throwing away AZ
much they every step, when their companions
not looking at them bat the moment they begin 70
feel want the day they exciam, 80, 4 we only
knew this yesterday what will we do now y auen'efl
the esn Religion "' fhey believe IL good and evil
spirits, but particularly evil ones whenever insy
are sick or IN any trouble they Invariably accuse
the evil spirit of It, By the bed OF the sick man
they fire of gums and pistols and in fact MAKE AL tho
noise they and when you ask them what it = for
they say II Is 10 fghen the evil spirit away from hun
they do frgnten devil cut OF hin, laurnter-
and they that this will make him wci but he gene
rsy oss angrer TINS gives some npa1n
dies they XIII several of his relatives because
Of jealousy The estate there consists aitoeeihs OF
Jealousy is the OF the murder Of the relatives.
The property which consists OF and Women never
descends to the Children but to the nephew
Of the eldest sister. He inlerts tho properly.
Laughter) The sons inherit but the cousins do
II is not custom TO marry relatives. These people
never do It, They would express surprise II you spoke
to them about marrying cousin. They do not think
much Of their children after foar or Ave years old ~
long as they are children they are fond OF them;
but when they are boys girls they care very
little about them, and generally sell them. When
70 divide the price S among 'n0 them, and tie
wives sold TO their husbands and the husband - 10
give presents to the faher-in-aw, and compel Oh bis
friends to do Naughter In fact, they are great
plaques, these African fathcrsinaw. tLaughtcr They
say, .see here now, have given you the lnest wife in
ought to send y more And 50
he makes him keep sending him presents all the time.
tLaugner) Wives and slaves their only property,
can, no matter how young or how old they
may Be aaushter,; bu, they always .ry
in that we cannot blame m-(auRhter)-ior We DO SO
ourselves am a bachelor, and nave Just as much
tLaughter) SO you they just the same as am
in that respect tiAnghser.) The husbands commana
Uas anS ssy q you 70 love
or Tomorrow or they cay, you do not love me
%ch you had ought vi Io ali ~ ns
presents gave you, and all the money have
spent upon you, aud you do not love mo much
as you ought TO love me, after ALL" Iaughterl Some
times thoy threaten them. and say, IF you do not love
me Will whip You tomorrow" H.augh;er.l some-
times il the gir Is not liked by the husoand sent
back. The father-in-law in the meantime ,hrcasens
often to take his daughter back II he IS not satisfied with
presents The largest number OF wives ever Knew
any 10 have was two hundred, and when i inquired
Of his majesty how many children he had. he conde-
scendcd TO say he had six hundred aughier In Mat
women and childrco Tor food The men nevor eas
Them What tho women leave goes to the children
They the only animals that they have domes Gated
found tribes that very fond OF intoxicating
drink and that drank morning and night many Of them
being nearly always in'oxcated they nave Jour knas
tain water and they even take pride r being able 70
make these drinks ard get drunk: When SAID % one
ashamed 70 ges drunk am mot like the gorilla, who
ss.. aI 4 FIX s 'Ia s C 11
good; gor,ila drink only waller; ao can make whskey
and drink it." Whenever man dies they move away
from the place, because they believe evil spirit W n
it. They very kind heaited hough they rob right
and lefk While was my last trip one Of my mems
two went om Ss oous
mako allowance Tor nn accioenI ana
o oSs rom among them for Of Ave
miles and upwards III consequence Of the accident Bus
notwithstanding this they very tender hearted for
portion Of wha. belongs 70 him Whenever thcy robbed
they always lett half Of whatever they ancssd.
viii. ana % they have no hsstaaion in taking tnem.
They never take anything BY force but always behind
when travelling with them, il we were short Of food
they would always II caught monkey, offer him 70
TO eat; bot or course ~ they were ~ hungry a
was, would only take small part with them bat this
showed their kfndness In some plnces there are many
venomoas serpents and no beasts whatever, because
they cannot 1--we among these reptiles, which
are there by the million, and often travel in
droves. You can always know when tbey are mov-
ing in this way by the manner IN which
they drive the birds before Thorn; and oven
have keep very close watch TO protect them
from these reptiles The gorilla even, cannot hold
his against them The Temperature In the shade
found be about % degrees in this region and loo in
the had IL higher than that In England,
where the Is not 80 powerful when the Thermometer
Ia the shade CO. IL win only BE- about 100 IN the san:
but in Africa though only 90 In the shade the thermo.
meter placed In the sun, would rise TO 1876 In Africa
the equator close 0y the during the year. there
fall OF about 226 incheA The forests a that
gion abound insects and in all sorts OF living cresure
In tthey numerous that my Observations r.
gardng their habits and character, added 70 my a0tro
nomical researches, than fully occupied my time
during my ten years Of exploration, during which
never . white face l generally contrived 70 keep
myself busy until about two o'clock and would then Try
Sleep II absolutely impossible for me 70 atsenps
TO fall asleep until that time was 30 WARM Generally
the nights about eighty-hve or ninety, and o0e
always feels tired In the morning and has 70 take M
tie quinins. In conclusion, may say thai shan -
happy my labors have added anything 70 The know-
ledge possessed by Europeans Of Central AfcA end q
the men Who inhsbt H. The only reward seek , The
Of my fellow and the kind consideSsttcn Of
my friendA tApplanse.)
vote OF thanks rendered to Monsieur nu Challa
n afoor Whtoh the