The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-07


positively secure the fidelity of his queen. Iuka
dreaded Miyongo evidently after the exhibition
of mis- jealousy to him. and after finding that
had no charms to give him to prevent the evil
effects of it he earnestly impiored me to take
himself and his community away to colonize
some other part Oh the river
EQUATOR STATION.
Among the pleasant stations land there are
some which are by no means pleasantly is Equa-
tor Station. which Stanley describes with fat
tering pen. He says
Equator Station is certainly happy one not SO sit
uated with regard to view it might be but with that
sole exception many other requisites necessary for
llbelng are In perfection We have abundance OF
food, obtained very cheapy and the prices so
established to every ones content that there is moth
ing left to complain Of We have apparently friendly
and devoted neghbors. Brnjalls bananas plantains,
sweet cassava, potatoes, yans, Indian corn. eggs.
poultry goats sheep the native productions assisted
by vegetables of Europe fourishing in the gardens;
with tea coffee sugar butter lard, rice, and wheat
Hour from Europe AFFORD sufficient variety for stump
tuous menu have enjoyed buildings every day here,
Vangee and Coquhat not the least useful is that OF
knowing how to cook. and how food should be pre-
pared We have sufficient acreage near the station to
be able if necessary to feed everybody abundantly
The climate is healthy, also though they have such
moist weather here, and the ground is SO astonishing
ly rich that would have Thought that fever would
be prevalent yet officers have been already four
months at Wangata without experiencing one hours
indispositon.
ITO the pure all things are pure" One need
make no apology for reprlnting the following re-
markable sacrifices which the native women OF
Langa- Langa make to save themselves from
being captured or sold into slavery:
According to Yumhila the populated districts here
about are known to the Wy-yanzi and Bangala as
"a tine upper Ths o rs tS sse r.
sophisticated aborginis of the clOtheless and over
tattooed beings they met here Few of crews be-
eved that there were women of their color who went
about before mems eyes absolutely nude. Naked
busts and limbs freely exposed were common, they
were aware through the exigencies of aboriginal life.
but this unabashed nudity much astonished them. A
word must be uttered in extenuaton of this shameless
exposure OF their persons by the women OF Langa
obainable to screen their persons from the of
men, they have resorted to marring that
Ssns Of which shs yoes
ousts Or was it the jealousy Of the men, who i'm
agned this hdeous device to shield their from
harm? However the folly, nay, crime, originated it
has served the purpose effectually and the Langa-
Langa people, by immolating that smoothness of out
line of the face and vevety touch of the skim have
saved themselves from being enslayed. Strangely
enough, the LangaLanga people think the style OF
soaring their faces by thousands of little cuts inter
spersed with huge humorous bisters to be beautify
ing and Makakuru. having become my brother,
earnestly impored to give him the opportunity of
exercising his skill in this novel art of personal adorn-
ment on my own facet
The upper country of the Congo has for years
been subject to raids of the Arab slave dealers
the same set of inhuman banditti against whom
Gordon defended Khartoum, the same class
against whom General Wolseley went forth in the
Soudan. Stanley for days steamed past sacked
and burning villages, and his description OF the
fiendish work of the Arabs is heartrending, and
should set all Christendom in league against the
hellish business which no country except Eng
land has as yet tackled in downright earnest.
Stanley camped near an Arab stronghold This
is the summary of the results of the brutal
raiders.
The slave trade admit they have only 2 800 cap
Sves in this fold yet they have raided through the
length and breadth of country larger than Ireland
Both banks of the river show that LIS villages and
forty three districts have been devastated out of
males and Children and about 6oo tusts Of ivory
The spears swords, bows and the quivers of arrows
show that many adults have fallen Given that these
have only profit Of per cent; and by the time all
these captves have been subjected to the accidents of
the river voyage to Kirundf and Nyangwe. of camp
life and its harsh mseres to the havoc of smallpox,
and the pests which mseres breed, there will only
main scant per cent upon the bloody venture.
They tell me- however that the conveys already
rived at Nyangwe with slaves captured in the interior
have been great as their present band Five expe-
ditions have and gone with their booty of ivory
and slaves, and these five expeditions have
petey weeded the large territory described above. If
each expedition has been successful as this the
slaye-traders have been enabled to obtain 5000
women and children safe to Nyangwe Kirundu and
and Vibondo, above the Stanley Falls. Thus 1000
out of assumed million will be at the rate of half
This is poor profit, out of such large waste of
life, for originally we assume the slaves to have
mustered about TO- 900 in number. To obtain the
1900 slaves out of the I18 villages, they must
have shot a round number of $500 people, while
1900 more died by the wayside. through scant
provisions and the intensity of their hopeless
wretchedness. How many are wounded and die
in the forest, or droop to death through an over
whelming sense of their calamities, we do not
know, but if the above figures are trustworthy,
fhan tho nnfa0 frnyr fho sfo
millions of souls in 5, 600 slaves obtained at the
cruel expense of 80 900 lives! And such slaves!
They are females. or young children who cannot
run away. or who, with youthful indifference,
will soon forget the terrors of their capture!
Yet each of the very smallest infants has cost
the life of father and perhaps his three stout
brothers and three grown-up daughters. Az en-
tire family of six souls have been done to death
to obtain that small, feeble, useless child!
mot the least among our failngs on the Con-
go, says Stanley, lis the decided dstaste we all
of us soon entertain for the potted American
Australian and New Zealand beef, and mutton
and fish, despite the loud exaggerative phrases
bestowed upon these delicacies by the food pre-
parers native goat, however tough and rank
its meat may be, is invariably preferred. The
potted sardnes, swimming in sweet oil, or the
yellow salmon, In its yellower unctuous matter,
do not provoke the appetite, but suggest bilious
ness. All that is left which may be said to be
perfectly safe is limited in the extreme-home-
made bread, rice, a few vegetables, fruits, and
condensed milk. What we need most on the
Congo is some harmless, mild liquid which is
agreeable and palatable, uninebriatng as tea and
as in offensive to the stomach as milk, which
neither affects the nerves nor kidneys, and is
portable food easily assimilated by the digestive
organs"
have in these extracts given you no more
than few mere suggestions of the interesting
details Of the book. It's scope and character
will be discussed and explained by the critics
and reviewers JOSEPH HATToN
Victor HugO's Last Days.
Paris Letter
The Partisan journals to hand up to May 81
give fnll datails of tha last hours of Xictor Huro