The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-05-04
JOHN aC,. { EDWARD. BAILEY, PRVRs.

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had absolute power over lis peo-
ple--naos Of whom were slaves.
Plurality Of wives, belonging to a
state Of brutality or barbarism,
each King had at least one hun
dred, besides half that number Of
pages, constantly attached to his
personal household. Thecla want.
ed tofget away from there, but she
si,rank Il with horror when che
thought OF askiHg King for pro-
lection. She did not believe a pass
port, from one King to the other,
would enable her to, reach the
coast. sho saw the people kill the
COW; gather the banana; distill
beer; entered their cane built
houses with thatched roof; exam
rned their pots and pottery; no.
ticed there was very little, time
spent in the pursuit of agriculture; (;
a little rice and sugar was made
for the King by slaves wearing
iron collars, chained by the neck
to each other, in long lines at work,
under the direction of the Kings
nnderstrappers, who stood watch.
ing. She visited the Kings palace; !;
saw his fat wives--many of them
nearly as broad as they were long;
they seldom ever got upon their
feet, sitting and lonngipg all day,
drinking cows' milk. The King
was opening box which had been
taken in battle. The box belong.
ed to an English traveller, who
had arrived in the town of an en-
e,ny King. The natives believed
the Englishman to be a wizard,
for as he arrived in their town,
their King died. They put the
traveller to death and burnt him.
The box being opened, the King
was delighted to find an improved
English rife he ordered a page
to take it out and try it. The
boy seized the weapon proceeded
to the yard; fired at a woman; /;
came back, and said: "Good gun,
kill woman dead !" Thecla then
walked to tie "Ripon Falls"
where the Nile flows out of Lake
Victoria, N'Yauza, and thought it
no wonder the source of the Nile
had not been discovered long ago,
as Captain Speke had walked ali
the way from Zanzibar to these
falls-having passed between the
Mountains Of the Moon and this
lake, and declared it 10 be the
true source OF the Nile, she deter
mined to walk along the Equator
westward, until she reached the
shore of the South Atlantic Ocean,
at the mouth of the River Gaboon.
She passed through tribes of slaves
and brutal kings !; witnessing bat
tle fields; dreadful murders op
preston, torture, hungry, poor,
miserable deformed savages, hid
cous to look at, and terrible to be
among. In the course OF time,
she found herself moving rapidly
along with a curren, of q large
stream of people, rushing towards
the coast-while they all under
went the greatest amount of pri-
walton, suffering and fatigue, they
were cheerful and happy, pushing
along as fast as possible, from day
to day. A multitude of blacks
were leaving their native country,
and moving straight along like a
swarm of bees in search Of new
home.
The path was very mountainous.
DIR. Livingston, SHE thought wrong
when he supposed the source of
the Nile to be in latitude 12o
south, and that the River Congo
flows into the Nile. She reached
the coast amidst an immense mass
of human beings. Fleets of ship.
ping lay along the coast, loading
with blacks. As fast as they filed
with passengers, they made sail.
lhe whole colony of Liberia had
gone-had quit Africa forever
The fleets OF sail vessels and steam
ers followed the Equator west.
ward. Those in authority, includ.
ing the crew on board, were all
black, and speaking the English
language. All the passengers, men,
women and children, were black,
natives O: Africa. There was the
most complete organization, ener-
gy, happiness and unanimity of
feeling. Every day the young
wild Africans were taught q lesson
in sealnanship: Cut q way the life
buoy; hard down the helm; let
fly the jib sheet; haul ont the
spanker; haul up the main sail :;
brace aback the main top sail
man the boat pick up the man
overheard. Having saved the POOR
mans life, they banl mp the boat
put mp the helm haul aft the jib
sheet; ease off the spanker sheet
brace about the main wards board