The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08

zeal treatment is very limited, and con-
llned principally, in the language of one
OF the men, to taking horse doses of
qulnlne until killed or cured; and being
cured by the quinine is worse than being
killed by the fever.''
Starting from Germany the hunters
take complete outfit of clothing, fire.
arms, gifts for the chiefs, and from ST.
900 to $4,000 in drafts and letters of
credit. They 60 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
com 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
would 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. tiresome, and dan
| gerous march across the Nubian desert.
They buy camels, water and provisions,
and hire such of the sheiks and other
natives as they want, the latter being
cheap enough, So and occasionally as
high as 81 each for the trip across the
| desert; and when the caravan gets to it's
| 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 a mansion,n 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 a
! dollar has been lost by carelessness.
| Frequently there has been ten thousand
of these silver dollars in the hut, with
only one or two white men in camp,
surrounded by negroes, Arabs, and half
breeds; yet no attempt at robbery has
ever been made, and the half-civilized
natives, knowing that they are not en-
|
it, never try to get it in any other way.
The men sleep where and as they please,
and three times day are given a fair
supply of Indian corn, which they grind,
and, after adding a little water, cook
over their own fires into a sort of bis
cult. The white men have negro wom-
en- cooks, and live luxuriously. They
have eggs, coffee, and Indian corn bis
cult for breakfast, with broiled chick
en- for relish whenever they want one,
for fowls are very plenty. For
dinner, maize and beef or mutton,
very tough and very stringy. GA good
conditioned OK can be bought for 81,
and a "good eating goat'' for fifty cents.
A little garden tuck, which they grow
themselves, and onions, which they raise
in great quantities, are also eaten. No
dinner would be complete without plen-
ty of onions, and they are rs much in Or
der at either of the other meals, or, in
deed, at any time during the day when
one feels hungry. Supper is similar to
breakfast, and after that the German
hunters inseparable evening friend, his
long-stemmed, china bowled, fragrant
pipe The interior of their hut would
interest New York artist Elephant
tusks, lion skins, leopard skins, and bits
of harness lie scattered about in dire
confusion; but in safe place, where it
can not possibly be scratched or disfig-
ured, the one tenderly used thing with
in the four strong walls, a first-class
full-sized silver-keyed German accorde-
on. They tell that in the long winter
evenings, after the perils and labors of
the hunt, Lohse plays on it divinely,
while the others puff out great clouds of
smoke and dreamily think of the father
land.
The clearing is on the bank of a little
river called the Settet, q branch of the
Nile, and is enclosed by a high and thick
hedge, made of native thorn. At night,
after the animals have been fed, water
ed, and housed or tethered, great fires
are built at irregular intervals around
the grounds to scare off wild animals,
and the watch is SET By 10 O'Clock all
others are in bed, with the dismal howl
of the hyena, the roar of the lion, and
the shrill shrek of the wild cat to dis
turb their dreams of wives and sweet
hearts. The myriads of gnats, flies,
and mosquitoes are for time a great
annoyance to the hunters, and a source
of amusement for the natives, who, with
their black hides covered thick with
grease, do not mind them, but enjoy the
contortions of their white companions
BY IL O'Clock all are asleep, and the
camp is still until about 5 in the morn
ing, when every body is astir again, and
the business of the day is begun. The
native hunters form in parties of about
twenty, each with white leader, and