Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-10-27

tain. The company, usually composed
of four or six, and never more thar
eight, under the command of Charlie!
Dohse, veteran hunter and trapper
start from Germany about the LIST o.
September, and return from Africs
early in June. During the remaining
three months of the year, which they
know rs the "rainy season." the climate
is so severe that it is almost certain
death for white man to remain in At
rica. A few have tried it, but most OF
them died, and those who survived suf-
fered terribly from fever, and were una
BILE to accomplish any thing. The med
ical treatment is very limited, and con-
fined principally, in the language of one
of the men, "to taking horse doses of
quinine until killed or cured; and being
cured by the quinine is worse than being
killed 10y the fever"
Starting from Germany the hunters
take complete outfit of clothing, fire.
arms, gifts for the chiefs, and from ST.
600 to Sl2, 900 in drafts and letters of
credit. They go to Trieste, thence to
Corfu, in Greece, thence to Alexandria,
and then by rail to Suez. There they
exchange all their money for Maria
Theresa silver Austrian dollars, the only
coin known to the Arabs and sheiks of
Africa. A Bank of England note is
valueless to them, and the brightest
specimen of a gold American eagle
wonld not buy the meanest ring-tailed
monkey. They next take the Turkish
steamer to Jedda, and thence to Sa-
rachin, their last station before COM
mencing the long,. tircsome, and dan
gerous march across the Nubianl desert
They buy camels, water and provisions,
and hire such of the sheiks and other
natives as they want, the latter being
cheap enough, 50 and occasionally as
high as 81 each for the trip across the
desert; and when the caravan gets to its
journeys end the poor fellows are left
to get back as best they can. In this
manner they travel to Honiahn, the |
Reiche Brothers principal station in
Africa, where the distinctions of caste |
are strictly maintained. Every white |
man has q mansion" which con-
sists of straw house about |
20 feet wide by 80 feet deep, and |
divided into two rooms. In such houses |
they live, eat and sleep, and in one of
them they keep the money that has been |
brought across the desert in trunks on |
the backs of camels. No attempt to hide
it is made, nor is their any secrecy as to
where it is packed during their long
journey. So honest are the native |
blacks that in the past six years not
dollar has been lost by carelessness
there has been ten thousand
Of these silver dollars in the hut, with
only one or two white men in camp,
by negroes, Arabs, and half
breeds; yet no attempt at robbery has
ever been made, and the half-ciyilized
natives, knowing that they are not en-
titled to dollar until they have earned
it, never try to get it in any other way.
The men sleepwhere andas they please,
and three times a day are given fair
suppl of Indian corn, which they grind,
and, after adding little water, cook
over their own fires into-a sort of bis
;uit. The white men have negro wom-
IN cooks, and live luxuriously. They
nave eggs, coffee, and Indian corn bis
,uit for breakfast, with broiled chick
N for relish whenever they want one,
or fowls are very plenty. For :
Inner, maize and beef or mutton,
cry tough and very stringy. IA good
conditioned OK ~ can be bought f or 81,
md a ''good eating goat for fifty cents
little garden tuck, which they grow
and onions, which they raise ]
n great quantities, are also eaten. No i
Inner would be complete without plen- /
y OF onions, and they are as muehin or
er at either of the other meals, or, in I
eed, at any time during the day when /
ne feels hungry. Supper is similar to
reakfast, and after that the German ,
inseparable evening friend, his {
china bowled, fragrant