Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-02-08
THE AFRICAN N AFRICA.

'Many people says Dr.. T. IT. Eddy,
thinks tho African in Africa il a bar
barian, bat while some Of them are.
the majority Of them are far from be
ing so. Stanley in his travels visited
the very worst classes on the Congo.
They are no criierions Of the Moham-
edau negroes, but quite the contrary. \
Africa contains 1870 million negro in +
habi,ants outside OF the MooIs and
people Of Arabic decent. When !
say negroes mean natives with
woody hair Woody hair 10 character
stic Of the negro. but the flat nose
and thick lips are only peculiar to
them. One Of the finest nations oi
4 Africa Is the Foulah, which number
about 80 million souls and live back Ol
Soneganbia, occupying country
1000 miles north TO touth, and 1900
east 10 west. These people are all
: Mohammedans and write their own
language la Arabic character, also
speaking, reading aud writing Arabic.
They are black, with woody hair, but
have thin, prominent noses and very
thin lips. No traveller has ever been
IN ueif country since tT60, aud what
know IL them | have learned from
Foulahs whom ! have met on the
t.l lsai
and gunFowder and rs fine leather
. work rs | ever saw. | haye known
, English officers 10 pay as high as $40
for a pair Of boots made by them, and
they were very beautiful, being but
toned up above the knee with silver
: buttons. In their cities they build
houses two and three stories high OF
! adobe and frame. They are governed
by sultan and each man is entitled
4 to four wives. Their costumes are
g similar to the Turks. Within their
:. nation they have large cities, but as
Q they will not allow strangers within
i the borders all that can be learned d
2 them is from such members OF tn,
! country as make visits TO the coas
aud elsewhere. On one occasion /
4 French army Of 700 French and 250'
, to invade the Foulah country and so
y lI7 miles. Only seventeen succeeded
/ in getting back.
q These people make pilgrimages 4
{, Mecca, a distance of $500 miles, L
= pay their respects TO the great shrin
Of the Mahammedans
: "The most beautiful race Of negro
are the Jalofr, from which the beauti
r iul negroes o. Louisiana were brought
50 "In Africa poiygamy is the rul,
i. and the proportion Of females born
Il two and one-half to one OF males
81 knew one Airiean-Ben Mamma, kin
e. OF the Eastern Neys--who had %
ic wives, 5Si children, and 1850 slaves
NJ and everyone 81 his children resemble
~ him to such an extent that you coul
: not fail 70 recognize them after ono
or seeing the iather.
Of "The white man can not exist j
!. Africa. lie will not multiply, and d.
or generate under tine climate Again
II. the country is so density populate
IN that there is no room for immigration
g. vet the soil IL so fertile that it can IA
II. commodate far more people tina
he America. The natives are two powe
in iul TO be conquered, and even wei
Is. this done the result would not |
DO worth the effort.
he "The Congo country is not compart
~ lively new country, nor is thel
II. much trade there. The Nigar Vale,
as however, which is the best in Airie
OF il GOO miles long, very rich, and h.
he a trade amounting 70 10000 600
x. year.
he Liberia is terrible countr
To Sierra Leone is known as the Win
Mans Grave, and Cape Palmas as Il
nd country where white women wee
az No beasts Of burden can live ther
NJ. not even a mule. All die OF malari
es The English army lost 1000 me
~ there in three months. And viii
be natives thrive and multiply, viii
:, everything produces two crops a YEA
: and hens lay two eggs day foreigi
its ers die and children are never born
lse them
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