The Portland daily press., 1890-08-28

square miles. This forest. he thinks, is the
rainiest spot on the earth. In a year they
had 1873 days CT rain. On the subject OF
INSECTS IN THE FOREST
Stanley grows eloquent, and they seem
to be as abundant and uncomfortable as
the rain. The red ants were an especial
terror; mosquitoes were small enough to
pass through ordinary netting and were very
vexatious; and wasps. hornets and bees
sometimes gave them much trouble. The
red ants cleared out all the other vermin,
but when they dropped on the travellers
their attacks were nendurable. On one
occasion he describes cloud of moths 1870
feet high, which as it approached, moving
about three miles an hour up the river, they
took for fog bank.
BIG PLANTAINs.
In Pigmy-land the travellers found big ba-
nanas and plantains. A pigmy described
them as being as big as his leg. and they
found plantains twenty-five inches long and
two and half inches in diameter, and each
stalk bore from 80 to 40 plantains. Near
Mount Ruwenzori they obtained plaintains
seventeen and half inches long. and as
thick as the forearm.
JERSEY CATTLE.
Stanley mentions that the cattle of Uson-
CORA and Unyoro are mostly of hornless
and humpless breed. and principally of
fawn color. 1t is said they are made horn
less by burning with fire, to enable them to
penetrate jungles.
INTELLIGENCE OF MONKEYS.
On the authority of Emin, Stanley relates
that the chimpanzees of the forest of Msong-
wa when coming to the plantations in the
night to steal fruit. use torches to light the
way. Emin said that If he had not seen this
himself he would not have believed that any
of the Simians understood the art of making
fire. The question will arise, does Prone
theus date back to the monkey state of man
kind, or TO the common ancestor Of both
races? On one occasion, he says, a Chin
panzee stole drum and went away pound
ing merrily upon it, and frequently after
that they were heard rattling away at it in
the middle of the night.
THE DINKAs REVERENCE sERPENTs.
Emin also stated that the Dinka tribe of
natives pay great reverence to pythons and
all kinds of snakes. They keep them in
their houses and wash them with milk and
anoint them with butter. In almost every
hut the smaller snakes may be heard rustling
in the roofs as they explore for rats, mice
and other vermin. One of the Soudanese
officers who killed snake was obliged by
them to pay fine of four gratis.
Another tribe ON the east of the Nile are
fond of lions, and their chief redeemed one
which the Soudanese had trapped. and set
him at liberty. He went off to his iungle
without molesting anybody.
MAN AS AN ANIMAL.
Stanley remarks: "The more experience
and insight obtain into human nature the
more convinced do hecome that tho oreater
portion of man Is nurelv animal Fullv
and regularly fed he ia q being canab,a of
being coaxed ar coerood r. ovor,,or 90 orv
kind love and fear swov hin, oooi,,, ho 10
not aversa N labor boyyovar sovora. hut
when starved II ia ws,T 20 koon =, ,o;nd ,ho
motto Gave Canaan, for . stsr,;na TO-, ouor
a raw morse, of haof ;S No. so toroo;o,,s a. 90
ready N tale ofonoo % ne Zoos ~, - All
how mpch tho man wor,a stand mr., ,,o,I
fed. and how even hanging wou,d not ra-
strain them from miscbief wban ninohod
with bunper and saws tho wall fed sovegos
ara peaceable while the dworfsb nomads
ara fierce "a beasto ~ nrov
HANaTNa nrsrprpps
Tn the forast land tbroo dosor,ors who bod
stoIen awav with r,eo0 ,.oro arros,od NV
the Arab traders ord no ,urnod ~ tbom
Stanlev submitted the oosa 70 bis man and
death was awarded He dacidad n hang
one man dav One wis selected hv lot and
HING. On the next dav Stanlev arranged
with a baadmon 20 hove aonaraI on,,aa, Co.
marcy and oftar q r,os+ exo,,;n, sooro ,bo
other two were renrievad as the second wac
about to be SWING off
IVORY HrNrERs
The Ivory Hunters are class who excite
SANKEY'S righteous indignation. and he
would like to hang them all. He describes
them as burning and DESTROYING every VIII
lage as they go, killing all the men and car
rying off the women and children into sla-
very. Next to these bandits come the
RoBBER BARoNs,
as some of the native chiefs might be called
who watch for travellers and exact tribute as
the rebber baron of Europe did In the mid
die ages. A small party is at their mercy.
and may be stranded for the lack of goods to
pay toll. The French missionaries were
opHBeu 10 pay Tribute OF Slo.oO WORM OF
CLOTHS In three days Journey through three
petty districts Two English missionaries
were seized and held until ransomed.
ABUSING THE NATIVES.
The natives have strong case against
white men, whom they may naturally class
all together. The Ivory Hunters treat them
inhumanly when they dare, and the Egyp-
tians and Soudanese have been most tyran
nical.
A Soudanese Of Emin's party was raiding
peaceable village against strict orders, and
shot three natives, killing one. The vii
layers came to complain. When the man
was pointed out Stanley gave him up to
them. He offered to redeem him with five
oxen, but the villagers would not accept the
ransom, so he was left to his well deserved
OVATION IN AUKoRI.
In one district m the return iournev STAN