The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24
OH God,

one poor fellow who prayed: "Oh! God,
take cherry d-n bad ting out of my heart"
Marvellous changes will take place In the
dark continent before the close OF the
present century. The great explorer is yet
TO come who will go through the heart of
Africa, entering at point on the west
coast, either from Sierra Leone or Liberia,
above where the coast trends eastward,
penetrating the Lower Soudan and crossing
the continent.
He will come across stranger revelations
than those encountered in Stanley's deep,
dark forests: very likely walled cities and
people OF some pretenSlonS to civilization.
Mention of the Soudan reminds me of an
important project now in contemplation in
connection with missionary work in Africa
Rev. II. Grattan Guinness and his wife,
who were the founders of the mission
known as the Livingstone Mission, are now
in the United States recruiting for the
Soudan work. Mr.. Guinness proposes to
enter. the Sotdan from, four different points,
one of his bases being Liberia, with head
quarters at Monrovia- He is the famous
English preacher, vino, when Stanley on
starting TO rescue Emin Pasha, took away
the steamer from the Baptist mission on
the Congo, bitterly denounced the act. 1t
was hlgh-handed proceeding on the part
of the explorer, and one that excited much
comment at the time.
The dreaded African fever, which very
few, either white or colored (colored from
the United Statesl, escape, is virulent
type of bilious fever. 1t comes on with
symptoms similar to those that accompany
an attack of remlttent fever in the United
States. / have heard persons say that a
day or two before being stricken down,
they felt an unusual exhilaration of spirits !;
then came the inevitable pain in the back,
giving OUT Of the knees and feeling
of general lassitude and exhaustion. Taken
in time, however. the fever is easily con-
trolled. IT not, tho victim soon drops off
into deep, unconscious sleep. The skin
becomes yellow from the overflow of bile,
which. should judge, suffuses the brain
to an extent that causes it to cease its ac-
ton, when death supervenes. l have
never known the following simple remedy
to fail, if applied when the symptoms first
appear: A dose of six or eight grains of
podophyllin, followed next day and, if need
be, for several successive days, by doses of
six or eight grains of quinine daily. 1t has
the additional advantage, too, of bringing
quick regeneration, instead of the long
and tedious recuperation.
Cannibalism has been a fruitful subject
for African explorers, and is one to which
have given no little consideration. Liv-
lngstone was quite doubtful as to most of
the tribe being cannibals. The one excep-
ton, as he thought, was tribe whose men
were Of superior physique, leaving US to
infer that the flesh-eating habit had some
thing to do with their superiority. My
own observation and opinion is that most
of the tribes are more or less addicted to
eating human flesh. On the Lower Niger
one woman said to me in the little English
she could muster:
1--WE never eat weselg,n meaning that if
a person died in town he was not eaten
by his neighbors in that town, but was
taken to another town and sold for food
Others, too, have told me that it is no un-
common thing to see human flesh carried
in baskets to town to be sold like SO much
beef.