Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-12
Major Pint0's Adventures.

YdIUV THU HuvOUtVS 90.
trrom ChirfJu.tice Dnlys Geographical
Review.
The most remarkable of the re-
cent explorations in Africa is that
o! the Portuguese explorer, Major
\. A. do Ssrpa Pinto, ia Aisg par
ney across the African Continent
81 performed my Journey" he says
"with scarcely any resources.
and my party had to Hive so'ciy
from day to day upon the product
of the chase, and thus with occa
siouui help from friendly natives,
accomplished my very difficult
taskr-tO which should he added
that the natives accompanying him
were almost entirely men belonging
TO n cannbal tribe. He is IL small,
spare man, being thiriy.four years
of age when he undertook this
jOurney, and it seems Incredible,
says Que who saw him after his
return, that man with 50 small n
frame and 40 apparently weak
could endure such hardships and
accomplish such Il journey.
lie preserved his Astronomical
instruments by u very simple de
vice. IN Trusting his chr0nometerS
To one of his native servants he
said, "You sec this makes noise;
you must never let this stop; bring
them to me every day 30 that l
may see that they are going; for
the day that YOU forget to bring
them to me you will be roasted
alive;" aud the sul'erstitious at
tendant, in constant fear Of the
supposed spirits within, and to
keep them quiet, punctually wound
the chrOnometers up every day
from that day forward. Once they
were attacked by numerous band
Of savages, who kept their bag
gage, including the chrOnometcrs,
and while Major Pinto was lament
ing their loss the following day,
they were brought to him by the
same attendant, who swan across
n river and, watching his opportu.
nifty, obtained them from the place
where the sNvages had deposited
them.
He found that one OF the carriers
supplied to him by q friendly chief
was, to his ACCOMPLISHMENT, a white
man belonging to u race in Africa
heretofore entirely unknown. This
race, called the CaAseQuer, he says,
exist in large numbers in this par,
Of South Africa: and that they arr
winter even than the Caucasians
with the distinction, that iustca d
of hair, their heads are covered
with small tufts of short wool; thai
they have prominent cheek bones
and eyes like the Chinese. II,
states that he has seen girls will
such complexion that, if thei
features were European, the,
would pass in Europe for beauties
The men Of this white African race
Major Pinto Says, are rcmarkabl,
robust, and that when they dis
charge an arrow at On elcphan
they bury the entire shaft in tn,
animals body. They live by them
selves, suf~isting on roots or til,
spoils OF the chase.
In the course of Major Pinto
expedition. he found the river y
Astounding in crocodiles that Ii
aud his negroes had TO construct
bridge across it, which crossin
they effected in three days. The
travelled without food for nearl
five days; and even when they oil
tanned some canary seed, had Their,
after II long interval Of fnstiu
Of from forty to forty.eight hour
and in some points came near l'e
ishing for waut OF food.
The whole Of the country of ii
river he found we'll peopled, exceI
Immediately above the cataract
Here, in this out .ot. the.way regio
he encountered an English natu
alist, DR.. Bradshaw, reduced to tt
greatest misery, having OIL him bl
a tattered shirt and q pair q trou
ere in most ruiuous state, VII
made his Acquaintance with IL
greatest sang .froid, gravely Or
senting him with his carte,de visit
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