Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-11-11
PLUCKY WOMEN.
European Ladies' Who are Pushing Int
the Depths of Africa.


European Ladies Who are Pushing Int
the Depths of Africa.
Quite a number of white men who
are now in Central Africa have followed
the advice of the celebrated explorer.
DIR. Barth, who many years ago ex-
pressed the opinion that the traveller in
Africa should take his wife with him.
He said ths natives did not understand
how a man could live without part
ner, and that they would hold him in
greater respect if he was accompanied
by his wife. DR.. Barth ADDED that thu
people he met south of the Sahara mad
nothing against him except that he was
a bachelor.
DR.. Livingstone's wife shared the
privations and dangers of some of his
travels, and it was while they were
making long journey together that
she died and was buried on the banks
of the Zambesi. 1t is only recently,
however, that white women have be-
gun to accompany 0heir husbands into
the depths of Central Africa.
If the young wife of DIR. Holub, The
Austrian traveller, survives their great
undertaking she will have made
longer journey in Africa than most e1-
plorers. Nearly two years ago iris
brave young couple started from South
Africa, intending to explore the upper
home, if possible, by way of the great
lakes and the Nile. After DR.. Holub
returned to Austria, few years ago,
having earned place in the first rank
of African traEe,ers by his seven years
of WORK IN tne Zambesi region, he
married the attractive and gifted young
lady who is now wandering with him
among savage tribes. The entreaties
o9 her friends could not turn her from
her purpose to accompany her husband
in his new explorations. About thirty
thousand dollars was raised to buy
their equipment, and when last heard
from they and their band of porters
Iere plunging into almost wholly un-
known regions OF the upper Zambesi.
9lrs. Holub was in excellent health,
but her husband had suffered 60 some
extent from fever.
Last spring Lieutenant Valche re-
Surned to Europe for a vacation, after
serving for three years On tho upper
Congo. Soon after his return he mar
ried a fair Belgian, and two months
ago he and his bride started for the
Congo, where he has re-enlisted in the
service of the Free State. At last ae-
counts they Svere at Stanley Pool in
good health. and were about to start
for Stanley Falls, one thousand two
hundred miles from the sea, where they
will reside.
One Of the most extensive travellers
on the Congo is the wife of the mis-
sionary Grenfell, who. with her child,
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his long Journeys, during which he
pushed his little steamer over three
thousand miles of the navigabla waters
of the Congo and its affiuents.
On an island in Lake Tanganyika.
not far from oUjiji, where Stanley found
sick and almost destitute,
live Mr.. and Mrs. Hore, who are among
the pioneer missionaries of the lake
region. The sunhealthfulness of tho
mainland has driven them to this
island, where they have a pretty mis-
sion station, and where Lieutenant
Gleerup, on his trip across the CONT |
nent this year, enjoyed the hospitaliries !
of a white lady III Central Africa.
A carpenter named Burgslag, who is |
Stationed at Luluaburg, far up the |
Kassai affluent of the Congo. where he !
has very successfully opened IA planta-
ton on which he has raised big crops |
Of rice, corn, sugar cane, manioc and |
European vegetables, has expressed !
the wish, at the end of his term of ser
vice, to bring his wife and children.
now in Germany, to Luluaburg, and
devote himself to his plantation and
cattle raising. Two other employees of
The Congo State. Won der Felsen, the
captain of one of the steamers, and
a gunmaker, whose terms
If service have expired, have petit
Toned the Government for permission
o settle on the Saturn river to open
and raise cattle. DIR. Wolf,
o whom their petition was referred.
has advised that it be granted, and has
the opinion that, within GER
ain limits, selected emigrants from,
europe may safely be allowed and even
encouraged to settle in the same
T. Sun.
in the Herald of Health Mr.. James
Hess remarks that we make a mistake
o wear cambria back vests, for the
ungs need the protection of clothing
,vea more I'm the back tnan front. To
void taking colds. and to ward off the
sensation of '.creepers" down the back