Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-15
WHITE WOMEN IN AFRICA.
European Ladies' Penetrating the
Dark Continent.
WON ~ Neto York Sun

FROM the Neto York Sun.
quite number of white men who are
now in Central Africa have followed the
advice of the celebrated explorer, Dr..
Barth, who many years ago expressed the
opinion that the traveller in Africa should
take his wife with him. He said the ma.
tives did not understand how man could
live without partner, and that they
would hold him in greater respect if he
was accompanied by his wife. DR.. Barth
added that the people he met south of the
Sahara had nothing against him except
that he was bachelor.
DIR. Livingstone's wife shared the priVa-
tions and dangers of some of his travels,
and 1t was while they were making a long
journey together that she died and was
buried on the banks of the Zambesi. 1t
is only recently, however, that
white women have begun TO accom-
pany their husbands into the depths OF
Central Africa.
If the young wife of DIR. Holub, the
Austrian traveller, survives their great
undertaking, she VIII have made longer
Journey In Africa than most explorers.
Nearly two years ago this brave young
couple started from South Africa, intend
ing TO explore the upper Zambest and
congo valleys, and to 20 home, Ifpossible,
by way of the great lakes and the Nile.
After DR.. HOlub returned to Austria, a
few years ago, having earned place in
the hrst rank of African travellers by his
seven years OF work in the Zambesi re-
gion, he married the attractive and gifted
young LADY who is now wandering with
him among savage tribes. The entreaties
of her friends could not turn her from her
purpose to accompany her husband In his
new explorations About 100000 was
raised to buy their equipment. and when
last heard from, two months ago, they
and their band Of porters were plunging
into almost wholly unknown regions
of the upper Zambesi. Mrs. Holub was
In excellent health, but her husband
had suffered to some extent from fever.
Last spring Lieut.. Valehe returned to
Europe for vacation, after serving for
three years on the upper Congo. Soon
after his return he married 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 accounts they were at Stanley
Pool in good health, and were about to
start for Stanley Falls, 1900 miles from
the sea, where they will reside.
One OF the most extensive travellers on
the Congo is the wife of the missionary
Grenfell, who, with her child, accom-.
journeys, during which he pushed his
little steamer over 1900 miles of the
navigable waters of the Congo and its
affuents.
On an island in Lake Tanganyika, not
far from Ujiji, where Stanley found Liv-
ingstOne sick and almost destitute, live
Mr.. and Mrs. Here, who are among the
pioneer missionaries of the lake region
The unhealthfulness of the mainland has
driven them to this island, where they
have a pretty mission station, and
where Lieut.. Gleerup, on his trip across
the continent this year, enjoyed the
Inequalities of white lady in Central
Africa.
A carpenter named Burgslag, who is
stationed at Luluaourg, far up the Cassai
atf1uent OF the Congo, where he has very
successfully opened plantation on
which he has raised big crops of rice,
corn, suger cane, maniOc, and European
vegetables, has expressed the wish, at
the end of his term Of service, to brr 9
MS 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
FeIsen the Captain of one of the steamers
and Schneider, gunmaker, whose terms
of service have expired, have petitiOned
the government for permission to settle
on the Saturn river to open plantations
and raise cattle. DR.. Wolf, to whom
their petition was referred, has advised
that it be granted, and has expressed the
opinion that within certain limits, select
ed emigrants from Europe may safely be
allowed and even encouraged TO settle in
the same region.