Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-11-12
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AFRICA'S HEART.
Stariey Tells OF His Last Great
Achievement.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF HIS LECTURE.


The Gloom of the Immense Forests and
Their PiEmy Inhabitants - Pleasing
Habits OF the Nrtives-JeweI- Made of
Human Teeth-Cannibalism-A Yellow
Ivory Queen Put to Work n - Servant
Some Comments ON the Man They Were
Looking for.
NEW York, Nov. ~ "A fashionable an
dience gathered at the Metropolitan
Opera house last evening To listen TO the
lecture of the great African explorer.
Henry NJ. Stanley, who was to tell of the
struggles of his two years plunge into
the depths of the dark continent The re-
ordinations aud charges that had be-
come public with reference to the awful
experience of the rear guard lent interest
to the words of the chief, AS in the lecture
it WAS expected that he might ten more
fully the history of the unhappy men
The meeting was opened by Mr. A. b. De
frece, who managed the affair 10 the in
terest of the Summit Convalescent home,
Of New Jersey. for whose benefit Mr.
Stanley gave the lecture.
The Great Explorer introduced.
Mr.. Defreece briefly eulogized the lee
.nrer, the cause for which he spoke and
the audience, and gave way for Chauncey
NJ. Depew. who introduced Stanley with
similar speech. He said Stanley dur
ing the last three years had given to the
world a continent for Christianity and
civilization. Stanley. was received with
long'cOntinued applause. He opened with
a graphic description of the great and
gloomy forests through which they had
marched for ld0 days. He spoke of the
great height of the trees; their density of
growth and the leafy vines. The forest,
which was dark at MONDAY, became
dreadful ut night.
Wonders of the Great Forests.
The forest, the tempest and the dark
ness had produced their effects on the
minds OF the people with him. He de-
scribed how rapturous the men were
when they emerged from the great forest
But they stopped TO scowl at the dense
habitants in the region, but they could
be classed into the tall inhabitants and
the pigmies The ts,ll natives occupy the
clearings; the pigmies are found in
groups III the forests. The different tribes
of each are distinguished by marks, some
having tattoo marks on their foreheads.
/ and others on their cheeks.
Jewelry, Arms, and Habits.
| Their jewelry consists of crocodile,
monkey, or human teeth chiefly. and their
dress is piece of bark about four feet
long and few inches wide, which they
in yirRla g.,
ons spears. knives, bsttle-axes, and some
times swords. The pigmies are nomadic
The large inhabitants build com pact viii
lagos. with one principal street, which is
generally ii led with goats aud fowl They
are nevertheless cannibals, but they do
not feed on their relatives or friends Il
Is only when they make capture from
| another tribe that they eat human .iesh.
A Corpse Awat,ns Cooking.
| He had seen woman who had been
speared in the throat laid on bier ready
| to TIE cooked she was sick and had been
left by maraudlng party. Another case
had also been personally observed by him.
During their journey they had captured
hundreds of natives who assisted them in
directing them to banana groves aud
other places for procuring food, but they
released them after the expedition had
passed beyond the territory OF those they
had captured, as they We're theuceforth
useless 10 them. The pigmies, who reach
about 10 full grown mans waist. have
abundant food as we'll rs the larger ma
tives. They have many kinds of fruit
some of them rs large as watermelons.
/ They catch elephants in pitfalls and other
animals good for food are abundant.
Caught a beautiful Young q ueen.
| He considered these people the lowest
/ of the human race morally. Their graft
tune is as short-liyed as a bull dogs One
day they caught beautiful yOung queen,
| Is years old, but pigmy. She was the
| color OF yellow ivory. She had a narrow
! girdle at the waist with iron rings on it
that looked like washers. She had ivory
rings on her arms and ankles She was
! used by one of the party as servant, and
she became very docile and adept. On
another occasion their pigrnies carried in
| another scout. The man was very proud
and strutted around with dignity. The
woman carried a pack tina, would hold
two bushels. The man became a very in
| dustrious servaut-a characteristic which
| Is rare in Africa
| The Angio-German Rivalry.
! He spoke of the discovery of the lone-lost
/ two truncated cones. and the Snow noun
tains, which on April had burst on their
rev. and hung for three days in view in
most peilucid atmosphere. He traced
che waters from the Snow mountains TO
! Lake Albert Edward, and from there TO the
White Nile. As they approached this
lake they emerged from the forest, and
| found a large grassy plain. He skipped
/ rapidly over the Journey TO the coast at
/ Zanzibar. but dwelt on their subsequent
difficulties there with Emin Pasha II
was not until approaching the east
he said. that they learned of rivalry be
tween the English and Germans TO curry
favor with the sultan of Zanzibar Emin
was a German, and was influenced by hi.
Gountrymen.
Emin Not n Grateful Man.
| They found that his gratitude was moi
very deep He had embraced the mem
lers of their expedition at the banuue,
given him at the coast with apparent
affection. and in going out fell over 4 bal
cony and was mi ured They were not allow
II see him at the hospital His subse
| quent incivility had been famed in.S
hostility by his couutrymen Emin had
been fourteen years absent in Africa
Stanley i'll concluding spoke OF arrange
nents between England and Germany
concerning this territory which bad beer
brought about partly throj u his urgent
demapds for an undersi a. lie re
ceived 200 or 3J0s persons al e the lee
trIre and shook their hands
Little Uprising In Honduras.
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