The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
BISHOP TAYLoR's LECTURE.

Judging from the large audience which
greeted Bishop Taylor at the First NJ. E
church last evening, it was certainly
pronounced success. The church was full
Of the elite of the city who did not under
any circumstances wish to miss hearing
the great missionary in his lecture on
Africa and its people and their customs
After the usual opening prayer and sing
ing the Bishop commenced his lecture and
held the audience enthralled for nearly
two hours. He is very pleasing and in,
teresting talker and a listener could al
most imagine himself with the heather in
Africa, so vivid were some of his iIIustra-
tons of their manners and customs He
| commenced by saying: The continent of
Africa Is a vast country and to a great ex-
| tent unknown TO the civilized world They
have population Of 80, OOO, 900 people or
| nearly four times as many as the United
| States, and although right in the heart OF
| the civilized world very little effort or
money had been used to bring them up to
| the standard of civilizations; but both
American and European countries had
spent thousands of dollars limiting for the
! North Pole without much success
Said there were only a few points through
which the interior of the country could be
reached, as it was in many parts very
rough and mountainous. The country
seemed to be surrounded by middle men
who want to control all the trade and
keep outsiders out and insiders in. They
never have wheat bread, but make -four or
meal from root called carsura which
grows in large quantities and is very nu-
ri 10 i
into quamba which is the bread Of the
country. The bishop related several very
pleasing anecdotes during his lecture,
some of which were very pleasing. The
following is one which brought down the
house: Said two young missionaries were
sent TO him to locate in part of the coun-
try where they could do the most good,
and he took them into some interior town,
and when they took their first meal one of
the men said as they passed him the bread
or quamba that he could not stand that
and he had never been used to such things,
and he ate very little for three days or
nights but the fourth morning when they
appeared for breakfast he saw very large
plate of the quamba, nicely toasted, sitting
on the table, and the young man said he
was going to learn to eat it that morning,
and done so, and soon liked it so well and
ate so much of it that he could hardly
button his pants. [Applausel. During
certain times Of the year the men are
obliged to work hard from early morning
till late at night clearing the land for
planting, and when that is done they go
fishing and out for a general good time,
and the women, who are very straight
and well developed, are left to do the
planting and the rest of the manual labor
and if anybody attempts to teach them
anything different it creates a fuss at once
They raise an abundance of choice fruits
and vegetable and also gather large guam
titles OF different gums, many are very
in this and other countries. They |
gather these gums and transport then on
foot (for they have no horses and |
very few CATTLE d thousand miles or |
more to the coast, where one hun |
dred vessels are supplied with freights |
for this and other foreign countries |
and are kept running to supply that |
trade continually and about all they get in |
return Is rum, guns and ammunition. |
Judging from remark the bishop made |
the rum traffic, one would be !
warranted in assuming that the prohibit
DRY law was not any better enforced there
than in Kansas, as one country alone, ships |
in, annually, two hundred thousand tuns
Of rum, to say nothing of the vast quaint
ties sent in by other countries. The bishop
related, in most pleasing way, many of
the forms and customs of the people, also
Of the grand and noble work being done by
the different missionaries. At the close of
the lecture everybody seemed TO feel that
they had spent most enjoyable and enter
tanning evening.