The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-19
NEW DISCOVERIES m AFRICA.
The People Among Whom Bishop Taylor
VIII Live and Work.

New York Sun.
The Methodist Episcopal Church recently APP
pointed the Rev. William Taylor missionary
bishop for Africa. His friends in Boston gave
him q farewell reception last week, and in the
course of his remarks the Bishop said:
1t is reported that an extraordinary discov-
cry has recently been made in africa There
have been found nationssof people. hitherto UNI
known, who live in houses built of stone, with
gardens IN the rear. and properly laid ont
streets, who work in iron, copper and ivory, and
are pretty well up in thefndustrial arts, many of
them being well TO do TiTisis country never
heard of before. Our plan is tofstrile nor these
people, and we hope 10 make the scheme self
supporting when we get there. We ought not to
go out there with less than twenty men"
The district referred to by Bishop Taylor lies
south of the Congo and between 80 and g. 39
south latitude, and q and 252 east longitude
It has been visited only by DR. Pogge and Iient.
WissnanD, who passed through the country in
1882. DR.. Rogge, after living about nine
babited the district, died early this year
when ON his way home Wissmann ne
turned to GeRmany last year with wonder
fna stories of what lie fadsseen, and with fine
specimens of native weapons carved ivory, bas-
kets, illlaid wares and copper and iron utensils.
He reported the country TO be fertile, we'll
watered and densely populated Tlain I'VE were
struck he says, blythe number of the Tnsilil-
ange tribe, who flocked around us by thousands.
The neighbofing Basenges were even more
ul1UE1ASdcs dt0 t5SLht1lsl sc5d&hS VI blftkn tS
friendly, laboFions and highly skilled in all
kinds of industrial art specimens of their
hanaiwork comprised the larger part eff his col.
lectons. Bntthe most reJnRrkable people the
explorers met were the Benekiitribe, whose king
dom COM Priseg the eastefn part OF the district.
Their villages" says WissnEsnn. are models,
well bHitt aud clean The ho1sesEare surround
ed by gardens and palm trees. They are an ag-
reultural people. varynHmerOHs and well to do.
Il took us four ar five .hpnps to march through
some of the villages, which had ane two and
three rows OF houses or streets. The population
must number hundreds of thousands.
In this district Bishop Taglofpr0pOs TO plant
his MethQdist missions He wild mot find the
country .dificulttof access The Kasai river, the
largesta of the Congo. BOUNDS nlon the
west, and the dsubilash, another Wide and deep
river, tributary to the Congo, divides It into two
nearly equal porti0ns AlieutenRat Missmann
has ratnrned to stlre Congo to lead an expedition
up the Kasai te the country Ae exp4oped, md
the, Gefmans. If they secure the harb0r Of AngRa
Peouena on the southwest coast intend to build
road connecting it with the discoveries of
Rogge and Missmaan.
II Bishep Taylor expects TO civilize the negro
BY missionary efforts alone, he viii doubtless
fail, as many Others have done. Only these
missionaries who give the natives instruction IN
the industrial arts and create in them a desire
for better clothing, houses and food are accom-
plishing anything for ciHiljnation. The pupely
religious fruits of their laboa,s are very small
hut they are the only workers who are reaping
any fruits At AL.