The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-04-03
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merely, but the whole body. Boys, al
so, alc tender, but old men very tough.
myself could see 70 difference in the
appearance Of tile flesh the men and
that of the gorilla, except that it was
little finer in texture.
"But in spite of their cannibalism,
they are in many respects the finest
tribe in that country. Their houses are
built low, not more than five feet in
height, on. account of the torna1oes.-
The walls are made of the bark of trees;
they have little door in front and a
back door, but no windows. Polygamy
is common among them, and the more
wives a man has the happier lie seems
to- be. Slavery is known, but Is not
much praetieed, because men are scarce:
,and they prefer to eat themrather than
make slaves of them. Thcy work iron
in the most beautiful manner, make
knives, spears and very sharp axes..A
They are exceedingly given to fighting,
hence their fondness OF wor-iing in iron,
and their expertness at it. Nothing
from the coast reaches them, except 4
few heads aud pieces ofcopper. oTleyo
cover the handles of their knives with
skin taken from the bodies Of men. On
parting the King made me d present of
one ofthese; ii had belonged to his faith
en- and was covered with human skim
"0ne day as was. laying ina forest I
got walked up by an army Of bashiquas
-astrange kind of ant. Iwas SO much
bitten by them that / was half dead -
An antelope had been Killed the day
before by king Boilgo. which had in
tended 10 eat. But it was now Gov
cred with, oh millions of ants They
are'the most wonderful insects in the
forest. TIiey are tile plague and dread |
brewery living thing b When they att
tack ayillage, the people have to light
fires, pour hot water around, and strew
burning ashes aroundto getlrid of.these
littlebeasts. They are really wonderful
always in single file, and sometimes
the file is mileupon mile in length. -
The file is generally two inches in
breadt., and there are officers through
ont the entire length keeping watch, so
that none of these ants get out of line.
| Watched line passing one particular
spot, afdit wastwelve hours before the
lastofthose arts passed. Andas they
go through the forest, at a certain signal
they spread themselves ont and attack
everything that comesout in their way
,fhcy will even go TO the tops Of the
trees and the insects and everything
else ffies,away before them. Elephants
aiitelopes, gazelles, snakes, scorpions,
lllrun away as fast as they can. In
faet many time have / been warned
,ftlie coming of these bashiqtias by the
nsccts and other creatures flying way
n an opposite direction. got ready
or them byjEaving the fires lighted.
fhey are the most voraelous little crea-a
.ures you can imagine. If they found
/ dead elephant on thei:line of march
hey would attack it andiin a short time
r,thing would ibe71left but bones. .-Al1
the chiefs will have a man
iedup to tree and soon nothing will
,e left of him but the slzeleton. They
er:ainly are the most voracious crea-
ures l.eve.saw. One singularcircum-
lance connected with them is that they
re afraid of the sun. Iftheyi come to
part of the forest where the sun is
Inning, they Olga tunnel under the
pot and passlit bythat means, and so
ntinue their march through the forest
A single file asbeforeso ed sss4qogqI,,