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mile or more, and then we observed
fires on shore and two men standing
near the edge of the bank. AS the
Florida drew near one Of the men ran
of with the speed of deer, and the
other, almost equally alarmed by our
sudden appearance, darted in behind the
trees and regarded us from that point Of
vantage. Several Of our men jumped
on shore and tried by persuasion to
coax him to come to us, but it was USE
less After little while he, too, disap-
peared.
Judging by all the signs We thought
there must be village near, and so we
decided to camp there. That afternoon
while we we're getting in flrewood there
was q sudden connection and great
crowd Of natives swarmed down upon MS.
They stood OF at q respectful distance,
evidently hardly knowing what to do
about It, and we went out toward them,
but they retired. This was not an
suspicious beginning to our acquaint-
Gnce, so we sent = deputation consist
ing of four Of our own natives belong
ing to the crew to parley with them.
Our men returned in an hour and re-
ported that they had met great crowd
Of natives armed with spears and
shields, their bodies painted. and with
= very fierce, warlike appearance.
"You can not go on" was the reply of
their head-man TO our messengers.
THE Lufembi. with many canoes, have
passed up the river. No one ever sleeps
here on this bank. II you try 1t you
will all have your threats cut"
This was not particularly cheering;
but we decided to sleep there. neverthe-
less. and sleop we did A Suong guard
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brute at q vital point, generally back Of
the head and between the shoulders.
So accurate'are the traps of these ele-
plant hunters that the game needs no
finishing stroke after the trap has done
its work.
We returned to Equator where we dis
charged our native crew, took on board
then continued ON to Kinchasa.
On reaching the head Of Stanley
Pool, we saw from the deck
Of the Florida a pleasing and
unexpected sight. On shore among the
trees were several neat-looking tents
and, approaching closer, we we're met
by two young Englishmen who had
come ont there to hunt elephants. They
had already shot three elephants, sew
eral buffaloes and an antelope, and
were looking forward to more excellent
sport We went ashore at their invita-
ton and stopped there for the day, start
ing up steam again in the Florida
after breakfast next morning. need
hardly say that we enjoyed this little
episode after our long sojourn among the
savages of the upper Malinga One OF
our hosts, Walter Dean, q splendid
young fellow, was killed by an elephant
a few months afterward.
We arrived safely at Stanley Pool Sta
ton on December IL. Ten days before
our return the chief of the station,
German, had died after short illness.
So ended our memorable journey up the
till then UNEMPLOYED Malinga to the land
of the elephant, the hunted Balolo, and
the terrible, man-eating Lufembi.
ROGER EASEMENT.
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of wood they brought US, were enabled
next morning to resume our journey.
Day after day our journey led us be-
tween swampy, overflowed banks, every
now and then bringing US to villages
erected on piles standing in the water
similar to those we had passed.
The inhabitants of these wretched
riverdwellings were poor in the extreme,
and led aterrible, hunted existence, eX-
posed on the forest side to the ferocious
attacks Of the Lufembi cannibals and
on the river suffering from the raiding
canoes OF the more powerful villages
lower down. AS we iourneyed higher
up the misery and wretchedncss seemed
to increase, while the number Of viii
lagos we encountered grew less and less.
At last, after many days of this, We
reached point beyond which the ma
tives Of Mompono, the last village we
had seen. told us we should find no viii
lagos and no human beings. For three
days we steamed up the ever.narrowing
reaches Of the river, its current increas-
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AoRD HARRY.

Lord Harry, he sat on the shingles one day.
And his lordship with jewels was laden,
And he lifted his eye, No sweet Polly came by
The bonniest trim fishermaiden.
He gave her stare, with his lordliest air,
And he said: "rve determined to marry;
I've goods and I've land, md here Is my hand:
think I'm u CATCH" said Lord Harry.
'"And what will you give to your LADY," said
she,
ITO the bride whom your iordship may hon
DRY"
:" Why, dinners and dresses and money" said
he,
And jewels to sparkle upon herr
=" II you give nothing more, SIR" the maiden re-
Piled
a. pity the girl whom you marry"
While his lordship looked down ut her rough
fisher gown,
"What more can she wanty" cried Lord
Harry.
-"When have lover" sweet Polly replied,
And she blushed with smile that was
sunny,
"Ae must give me his heart, ere he makes me
his bride,
For it's love that ask for-not money!"
She made him curtsey and on went my
lord,
And invited duchess TO marry;
She was ugly and old but she'd plenty Of
gold,
And she made u good match for Lord Harry
Temple Bar.
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ing in force as 1t grew smaller; round
sharp corners, where our bows were
driven into the opposite bank and the
funnel got entangled in the branches Of
the overhanging trees, and yet without
seeing single canoe or trace of hui
man habitation.
Climbing q tree one day which stood
on bluff whose river face was clothed
in clinging mass of ferns and creepers,
I looked inland and away up river.
Every where spread broad, boundless
expanse Of trees-a wave of thick for
est extending from my feet to the fur
thest limits Of the horizon. There was
no change in any direction-overhead
the clear sky and the bright sunlight.
underneath and all around level with
the sky-line-the dark forest and its
still, impenetrable wall OF foliage. 1
could not help feeling that this was in
deed the heart Of Africa; that here, far,
far from the outer world, throbbed the
pulses of q hidden continent. What
strange life might not lie concealed in
those silent woodland depths? Whence
came this mysterious river, yelling
silently up from the dim, swampy re-
cesses of the surrounding forest
through which, for ages and ages, the
elephant had roamed and savage man
through countless generations Of barba-
rians had pursued the same daily,
monthly, yearly, roundo of bloOdshed and
misery, laughter and death-cannibal
feasts and parental JOY when another
little savage had opened his baby eyes
on the theater Of life, whose strange
scenes and stranger characters were to
develop before his gaze behind that
screen Of forest barrier which the GO
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MUS Of Africa has raised around her in.
most shrine.
Several days were passed traversing
the dreary solitudes, without coming In
contact with q single human being.
On the fourth day we were surprised
to hear voice coming from the trees,
and to listen to native shout. We sent
our canoe, and brought him on board
the Florida; but this was not done
without difficulty, for our men had q
sharp chase before he was finally
caught. He was very sullen follow,
and our interpreter had some trouble in
coaxing him to speak at all. We were
not very far from village, he told US.
At his request drum was handed him,
and he beat signal to his village. We
heard the answering signal, borne over
the water, clear and distinct He told
us, too, that they would know that 1t
meant strangers were here, and that we
should soon see plenty Of his people.
In the morning q number Of strange
looking men came down toward us In
canoes, bringing fuel and presents
We soon made friends. We learned that
their village was three or four miles on.
These people were Balolo, and had the
same peculiar tribal marks have al
ready mentioned. went over
to their village. and q terrible
tramp it was, over boys and morasses
and roots of trees. ] stumbled and fell
several times, smashing my watch, and
after all my pains, found on arriving
there that 1t was q wretchedly poor
place, with absolutely nothing to trade
and only one poor tusk of ivory in the
whole village. So tramped back again
by the way came, first exacting prom
Use from the native we met the preced-
ing night at the river that he would
come to the Florida next morning and
act as our guide. When morning came,
and the Balolo failed to turn up, we
pushed ahead without him.
Leaving the poverty-stricken settle
ment behind us, we started up stream
again, only to run almost Immediately
into snag at sharp bend Of the river.
On getting safely afioat again we had to
proceed with the utmost care, for We
soon discovered that there was sue.
cession of sharp turns and no end OF
snags Immediately ahead. In avoiding
these we were constantly running into
the banks, for just at this point the
stream is narrower and more rapid than
at any other Towards evening we
came to traces of an encampment on the
left bank of the river, where the Lu-
fembi. the dreaded tribe of cannibals,
were said to be. These were the first
signs of houses we had seen in four
days; for the last three days had been
spent in lodging the snags of the river
and avoiding disaster to the Florida.
There were no signs of life about the
encampment, so we stopped and sounded
q shrill blast from the steam
whistle; but there was no response save
the echoes which seemed to repeat them
selves indefinitely before dying out on
the wooded shores. We pushed on for o
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wood Tor next day we passed frequent
little fishing settlements, but all con-
structed in the same manner.
At last we were compelled by dark
ness and want of fuel to stop ut one Of
these for the night The occupants Of
the few houses speedily stepped from of
their little verandahs into their dug
out canoes fastened to one Of the sup
porting pillars Of the structure and came
out TO rs where we had attached the bow
Of the steamer to the jutting branch OF
o fallen tree which rose from the surface
Of the river.
Other canoes from the villages We had
passed gathered round us, too, and
fresh attachments from up river came
down to US, bringing fire-wood to sell
for beads and cowries, and big Jumps Of
gum-copal, which make q capital blaze
We were surrounded for hours by these
poor creatures, anxious to obtain few
of the much-coveted possessions Of the
white men; and thanks to tho supplies
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natives on shore (for the Baukindu
Of the Equator are an offshoot OF the
great BalolO and speak kindred
toLgue) were soon dancing round sew
-eral fires with their new-formed chums,
while Glave and l talked 10 the chief
and interviewed him as to the POSSIBLE
tiles Of many days steaming yet before
us ere we should reach the end of navi-
gable river.
We had up to this been unsuccess-
full in obtaining any thing like the
quantity Of ivory we expected to find in
the Lulungu, our total stock purchased
and that received as presents from
blood brothers" only amounting to q
few hundred pounds weight, which
had cost us pretty dear, too.
However, in the morning we found
ourselves surrounded by canoes contain
ing magnificent tusks or were besieged
from the shore side by crowd of old
LolOs, followed by sons or slaves stag
gering under beautiful white sixty
pound or seventy-pound tusks. Fully o
ton-weight Of ivory was brought along
side the Florida that day, but Glave,
unwilling to spoil the price, would only
buy about three hundred and fifty to
four hundred pounds weight of 1t, which
he secured for prices averaging two
pence and three pence per pound, paid
chiefly in brass wire and white and blue
beads, such as children use at home for
making into toy-rings, which these
larger African children put to the very
same uses. A man on getting paid for
the ivory he had just sold would make
off at once with the tin soup-plate full
of beads in his hands, glowing lengths
of red-cOtton handkerchiefs or blue
cloth streaming out behind him; and
the other items received, such as
spoons, brass wire. mirrors, and odds
and ends like these, grazing the
arms of his adherents who followed
in his wake thrusting their way through
the crowd Of wOuld-be sellers of ivory,
who regarded with longing eyes this
.ravishing transit. of such wealth through
their midst, or even grabbed at the
beads as they shot past, thereby pro-
vOking an awful row and the scatter
ing Of many small boys to the winds,
and sometimes the precious beads them
selves, when the-scramble which ensued
beggars description.
A busy day was thus spent at Baulu,
and promising to buyIplenty Of their re-
naming ivory on our return, by which
time we guessed the beads would have
done their deadly work, we babe fare
we'll to the chief, and kindly disposed
people of this happy Central African
village.
We left Bauln In the afternoon and
speedily became aware'of the fact that
We had left dry land behind us also. for
the two little villageswe soon came to
consisted of huts raised upon piles
standing in the water, and around on
every side we could see no trace Of bank
or shore to the river. The bordering
line Of great forest trees ON leach hand
stood in the rushing water, and as We
steamed on Seping to come to some spot
where solid earth would enable MS to
camp for tho might .AH1 cut Up dead
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SOME FuEeIAN TRAITS.
Degraded Human Beings Who Are En-
pcrts Only In Begging.

Degraded Human Beings Who Are Err
perts Only In Begging.
When song was struck up by our own
party. / thought the Fuegians would
have fallen down with establishment.
With equal surprise they viewed our
dancing; but one of the young men,
when asked, had no objection to little
walking. Little accustomed 20 Euro
pesns IS they appeared to be, Jet they
knew and dreaded our firearms; moth
ing would tempt them TO take gun in
their hands They begged for knives,
calling them by the Spanish word
cuchilld. They explained also what they
wanted, by acting as II they had piece
OF blubberein their mouths, and then
pretending to cut instead Of tear it.
1t was as easy to please as 1t was diff
flcult to satisfy these savages. Young
and old. men and children; never ceased
repeating the word yammsrseAOOnsr.
which means give me-" After point
ing to almost every object, one after the
other, even TO the buttons on our coats.
and saying their favorite word in as
many intonations as possible, they
would then use 1t in q neuter sense, and
vacantly repeat yammaschOORer. After
yammerschOonering for any article very
eagerly, they. would by q simple artifce
point to their young women or little
children, as much e g say II yol win
not give Il NE. surely yon vii 20 such
- these. --Popular sclenoe Monthly.
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lCoPYRIGHT, 1901
CONCLUDED IN THIS NUMBER.

UR greeting ut
Baulu was most
kindly. Til e
usual ceremony
Of blood brother
hood having been
gone through by
freight, pres
.ents were eX-
changed between
the chief and our
selves and our
m Q n, quickly
S striking up
friendships with
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The president Of vassar College hes
plans for the erection OF q new library
hall, houses for the professors and a.
annex for the stgeoniA
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UP THE MALINGA.
Closing Chapter Of Explorer Case
ment's Journey.

"A Savage Dance Mt Baulu - Trading for
Ivory--CustOms Of the Man-Eaters-
An Impassablc Barrier - Tho
Return to Stanley Pool.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-25

nsr. s,,. xDasi7. a: January, si6sOsG660: neys
sixs;atix 20; spot Mo quiet cod st~sdy. eo4sf
auicf sad steady no.ssses New Orleans 1911:
Rice aos1y and quisS Pessoienm sesscy ~
quiet: rsnnsd, 1855. Cot9n-sse1 osl ae,ss
e,t assc Kosin stss1s snd quiet mfs.sscs
cornnion % good. sLf2x aeIt7h. TufQeee.e
oaset aud arm 81 slsssko Wool easy enc 49,
PORK DUR s.,t as.ss :Sa s ssssa Sa,.s - 49,
CsEmeafs dull and weak MhalesQo,N -
weak. lard more sctvo and stronger: ve..sn
steam, 500 city, $40; January. IN; 1sys
sas5 BID freishs dau.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO. December M--cash -four seeedy
and unchanged. No ssprfns vhsas @tssss
s sS s ssss w S... 40, 81 Tn lard. s.sAsS
shortrius, elsoati.sA snonldsrs. NEAe<0s
short-ciear. sacssi.iA whisksy. tLi<
The vines, market was nrmsr 81 the epsnine.
The only expIsnsiioa u the change In feeling
since the previsus afternoon vas ihs somsvbss
colder weather May futures opened 81 we.
and slmos, M the sane moment ~ tcucnea
we. vito one OF two small ioss even 81 ~
This showed 80 advance siace yssfsrdave close
OF X 10 &c There vss decline 70 T'sc.. an
other advance 10 Tkc. dip 81 Tse-. Ana men
an advance 30 yssc. The price hsid ervuso
%. for some time. ont he bear. srsiasny
not very mateyisi, and around Tkc. thsre we're
enough buying orders W bold the nsrses In Tue
vicinity Of that gnotat'oo aud IN the ept 70 sivs
an upward inrhasiion TO price,, wo'cn elt
tho price 81 Mar AZ g.,,c. The eoro market
va, srmsr The nuctnatlons were narrow,
but the price Wa steadily maintained ~ some
ADVANCE over the CLOSING prices % the previous
day. Mag opened ~ Size, with enc 90 Two
Transaction. a. 5iSc. The highest price to-day
was 5lkc. ard lowest HSc, and u sss hsc.
bid ss the market vs~ being adjourned over
Christmss There vss light trsde In ost>
Prices were conrusd 20 range Of No Tho
start was At lsf.c for the May future. Thence
the price decsipei 70 gsG. advanced 10 TIC,
and closed NC. higher than yesterday, 81 Shc
The recsipts ~ hogs were 20; up 20 general ef-
pectstions aud the price, AZ reported IRON me
stock-yaris. was higher. Ihis gave the msrtet
ts frat impetus. The advance was general IN
all speculative articles Tho closing qnotssions
show an advance Of % TO sisc In porn. 10 " isc.
in rihs, and % NC IN lard.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-25
German Notes.

TBy Angio-American cable TO tue Dispatch.l
BERLIN. December 24.--Dr. Peters
has abandoned his lawsuit regarding the
seizure Of the steamer Niera by Admiral
Freemantle, commander OF the British
feet on the east coast Of Africa. The
Governments refusal to support him in
the suit caused Peters to take this ac-
ton.
The National Zcitlng says that tho
reports of projected Notifications at
Breslau had their origin ia the fact
that the Government has planned TO
erect store depotS at that place.
A petition is being circulated against
the readmission of Jesults to Germany.
The editor OF the Elferfeld Freie Presse,
a Socialist paper, is being prosecuted for
publishing an article ridiculng the fears
OF the protestants ia regard to the Jesu-
its al pointing out that Protestants re-
cognize the rules of the Roman Catholic
Church.
Two thousand weavers Of Eylenge-
hinge, Silesia, have sent a petition to
Emperor William urging him to insti-
tute inquiry regarding the wages paid to
persons employed in the textile in
dustry. The petitioners say that married
hand-weavers now receive less than five
marks weekly.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-25
SCOTLAND'S' STRIKE.
1T IS EXTENDING RAPIDLY IN EVERY
DIRECTION.
strikers-Ths Men Determined to
Continue the Struggle.
[By Anflo-American cable % the pIsp.tch.l

tBy Anglo-Americsn cable to the Dispatch-i
GLASGOW, December H.-There are
no signs Of improvement in connection
with the railroad strike in Scotland 1t
is estimated that about $500 men are
now out on strike. and business may be
said TO be entirely at a stsnd-still. On
the North British lines traffic is sus-
pended, while the others are working in
an irregular manner. Business people
residing in the Suburbs are obliged to
walk from their out-of.town residences
to the city, thereby suffering much in
convenience. In and about Glasgowthe
price Of coal has already advanced seven
shillings per ton, with the prospect Of
still further advance in price before long.
A GAS FAMINE IMMINENT.
In addition to the coal trouble. which
seriously sfIecte the poorer classes al
ready, il is said that gas famine in i'm
minent and the police are already taking
steps to provide force of special con-
stables to guard the city in case the sup
ply OF gas should give out and the city
be plunged into total darkness at night.
All the ship-building yards and public
works are without fuel and they expect
10 be forced to close their doors unless
the strike is settled within very short
time. Strong detachments OF police are
guarding the railroad depots, which are
surrounded by crowds of strikers accom-
panied by their wives and families. who
jeer and laugh at the bungling efforts Of
railroad porters, lamp-men, sweepers,
clerks, and others who have been pressed
into the service, new to them, Of making
up and running the few trains which the
railroad officials manage to despatch.
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THE FEDERAL SENATE.
A Needed Lesson Read the Political Ghost
Dancers by Mr.. Morgan.
re ,n,.,r,on n tha nt.n.,ce


tBy telegraph TO the Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON, ID. G., December a.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Morgan called
up his resolution directing the Commit
tee on PRIVILEGES and Elections to amend
section 81 OF the elections bill.
Mr.. Sherman co9tended that it Was
not now in order TO call up that resolu-
ton except upon formal motion.
Mr.. Morgan said that during bis ser
vice in the Senate abou, fourteen
years the Other practice had been in
vogue. He likened the present condi-
ton Of the Senate to the condition of
sycophantic Damocles, with a single
LaIr holding a sword suspended over his
head Yesterday the little State Of
Rhode leland had suspended sword
over the Senate-over the great States
of Massachusetts,, Ohio, and New York.
Rhode Island had informed the Senate
that at the will and pleasure, not OF a
proper committee, but OF caucus COM
mittee, free speech was to be prohibited.
But these threats were not addressed 10
sycophants and towards, but TO men
"who know their rights, and knowing
dare maintain"
THE REPUBLICANS DIsGBAcING THEM
SELVES.
Efforts 10 confine speech came with
special ill-grace from senator's who had
set in this chamber for twenty years.
The Senate was having cloture .in vari-
Gus forms and shapes. After twenty
years quiet agreement in the other
practice the Senator from Ohio sudden
ly had discovered cloture by implica-
ton. This was but part OF threat
Mr.. Sherman made the point Of order
that Mr.. Morgan was not entitled TO the
floor, but the presiding officer ruled
otherwise and Mr.. Morgan resumed his
remarks II, he said, sword were hing
over the heads Of sycophants and cow
ards there might be something in it, but
when II was suspended over representa-
tives OF the sovereign States Of the
Union the action would be met III no
other manner than by indignant protest
against its injustice, its wrongfulness,
and its improperly.
BENNY BUT THE FLY on THE WHEEL.
Inc 1rebluenJ tnOugut lndt Nc WAS
leading this movement, which would
apply rs well to financial measures as to
the elections bill. He was doing it just
as the gnst WAS moving the buffalo, on
whose horn he rested. The movement
was in the hands of senators on this
floor who were aspirants for the Presi-
dency.
Pending further debate the hour OF ii
arrived and Mr.. Mcpherson continued
his speech against the election bill.
SANTA cLAUs's REIGN ACKNOWLEDGED.
At 12:45, on motion of Mr. Hoar, the
Senate adjourned till Saturday at noon,
with the understanding that at that time
the Vice-President shall declare the Sen
ate adjourned till Monday at noon.