San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-03


trek ked into the wilds there was nearly
a wagon load of them. But every three
years we have sent an expedition of
these wagons right down to Port Natal
The wagons are loaded with ivory and
other goods, and come back with all
kinds of things that have been sent out
from England for lis. You see. although
we live in this wild place, we are not al
together cut off. We can send runners
to Natal and back in three months, and
the wagons get there and back in year"
Have YOU ever been with the wag-
Ons:' | asked.
Since | was IA child have never been
more than thirty miles from Rabyan's
Peak" she answered DO you know,
Mr.. Allan, that YOU are, with one eX-
ception, the first EngliShmau that |
have known out of a book | suppose
that must seem very wild and savage
to YOU. but have had one advantage
a good education. My father has taught
me everything, and perhaps | know
some things that You don't. | can read
French and German Tor instance.
think that my fathers first idea WAS to
let me run wild altogether, but he gave
it up
And don't You wish to go into the
world" asked.
''Sometimes," she said, "when ] get
lonely. But perhap, my father is right
-pcr!ap, it would brighten and bewil-
der me. At any rate, he would never
return TO civilization. IL is his idea. YOU
know, though am sure do not know
where he got it from, nor why he cannot
bear that orr name should be spoken.
In short, Mr.. QuatermaiM, we do not
make our lives; we must take them as
We find them. Have you done your
breakfast? Let Us go out and | will
show YOU our domain"
| rose and went to my sleeping place
to fetch my hat. When | returned, Mr..
Carson-fo for, after all, that was his name.
though lie would never allow it TO be
spokrn-had come into the hut. He felt
better now, he said. and would accom-
pany us on our walk if Stella would give
him an arm.
So we started, AMI after us came
Uendrika with Tota and old Indaba-
zimbi, whom found sitting outside as
fresh as paint. Nothing could tire that
old man.
The view from the platform was al
most as beautiful as that from the lower
ground looking up to the peak. The
marble kraalS, as have said, faced west,
consequently all the upper terrace lay in
the shadow of the great peak till nearly II
O'Clock in the morning, which was great
advantage in that warm latitude First
we walked through the garden, which
was beautifully cultivated, and one of
the most productive that l ever saw.
There We're three or four natives work
ing in it, and they all Saluted my host as
Bahia" or father. Then we visited the
other two groups of marble hutS. One
of these was used for stables and out
buildings, tho other as StorehOuSeS, the
center hut having been, however, turned
into chapel. Mr.. Carson was not or.
dalned, but he earnestly tried to convert
the natives, most of whom were refugees
who had come to him for shelter, and he
had practiced the more elementary rites
of the church for 50 long that think he
began to believe that he really was
clergyman. For instance, he always
married those of his people who would
to homogeneous existence, and
baptized their children.
Whn,, IoI oyn,,,i,,,,I lei
full remains of antiquity, the marble huts,
and admired the orange trees. the vines
and fruits which thrive like weeds i'm this
soil and climate, we descended
to the next platform and saw the farming
operations in full swing. l think that it
was the best farm | have ever seen in
Africa. There was ample water for pur-
poses of irrigation, the grass lands below
gave pasturage for hundreds of head of
cattle and horses, and, for natives, the
people were most industrious. More
over, the whole place was managed bv
Mr.. Carson on the cooperative system;
he only took a 1.-THE of the produce-in-
deed, in this land of teeming plenty,
what was he to do with more? Conse.
iuently the tribemen, who, by the way,
called themselves the Children of
Thomas" were able to accumulate con-
siderable wealth. All their disputes were
referred to their father" and he also |
was judge of otfenses and crimes. Some
we're punished by imprisonment, whip
ping and loss of goods, other and graver
by expulsion from the
fiat which to one of these
avored natives must have seemed as |
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