Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-12

Explorer Stanley Lectures on the Darl
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Continents Secrets.
Fully 5000 persons, including the most nota-
BILE in the city, assembled at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York city last evening to
hear Mr.. Stanley's lecture on Equatorial
Africa" The lecturer was introduced by Mr..
Depew. 1Ir. Stanley opened with graphic
drawing of the great and gloomy forests
through which they had marched for 100 days.
He spoke Of the great height of the trees, the
growth and leafy vines. The forest, which was
dark even at noon day, became dreadful in q
storm. The forest, the tempest and the darkness
had produced their effects on the minds Of the
people with him. He described how raptuous
the men wero when they emerged from the
great forest. But they stopped to scowl at the
dense woods they had left.
There many inhabitants in the region,
but they could DO classsd into tall inhabitants
and the pig mics. The tall natives occupy the
clearingr; the pigmies are found in caves.
FOOD AND WEAPONS OF THE NATIVES.
They have for weapons spears, knives, battle
axes and sometimes swords. The pigmies are
nomadic. The large inhabitants build COM
pact villages with one principal street, which
is generally filled with goats and fowl They
are nevertheless cannibals, but they do not
feed on their relatives or friends. 1t is only
when they make a capture from another tribe
that they eat human flesh. He had seen a
woman, who had been speared in the throat,
laid on bier ready to be cooked. She was
sick and had been left by marauding party.
Another case had also been personally OBJ
served by him: During their journey they had
captured hundreds of the natives, who assisted
them in directing them to banana groves and
other places for procuring food, but they re-
leased them after the expedition had passed
beyond the territory Of those they had cap
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them.
The pigmies who reach about up to q full grown
mans waist have abundant food as we'll as the
larger natives. They have many kinds of
fruits, some of them as large as watermelons.
They catch elephants in pitfalls and other ami
mails and insects fit for food are abundant. He
considered these people the lowest of the
human race morally. Their gratitude is as
short lived as a bull dog
THE STRANGE PIGMIEs.
One day they caught beautiful young queen
| about eighteen years of age but a pigmy. She
was the color Of yellow ivory. She had o mar
row 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 a servant and she became very
docile and adept. -..r
On another occasion their scouts fetched in a
pigmy man and woman and a boy. The man
was very proud and strutted around with Dig
nifty. Inc woman carried pack that would
hold two bushels. The boy became a very in
dustriOus servant, characteristic which is
rare in Africa.
He spoke Of the discovery of the long lost
Mountains Of the Moons, which rose like two
truncated cones, and the Snow mountains,
which on April had burst on their view and
hung for three days in view in q most pellucid
atmosphere. He traced the waters from the
Snow mountains to Lake Albert Edward and
from there to the White Nile. As they APP
preached this lake they emerged from the for
| est and found large, grassy plain.
TROUBLE WITH KMIN. "
He passed rapidly over the journey to the
coast at Zanzibar. but dwelt ON their subse-
quent difficulties there with Emin Pasha. II
was not until they were approaching the coast,
he said, that they learned of the rivalry be-
tween the English and Germans to carry favor
with the sultan of Zanzibar. Emin was q Ger
man and was influenced by his countrymen
They found that his gratitude was not very
deep. He had embraced the members Of their
expedition at the banquet given him at the
coast with apparent affection and in going out
fell over balcony and was injured. Iheywere
not allowed to see him at the hospital His
subsequent incivility had been famed into hos
tility by his countrymen. Emin had been four
teen years absent in Africa.
MIR. Stanley in concluding, spoke Of the ar
| rangement between England and Germany con-
| corning this territory, which had been brought
| about partly through his urgent demands for
an understanding. He received 200 or 800 per-
sons after tie lecture and shook their hands.
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