The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-02

their swollen and bloody feet through the
forest. Mrs Holub at this time suffered
more severe than anv other member of
the Darty. Her husbands jacket was torn
TO pieces to bandage her wounded feet. If
one member of the arty stopped for an in
slant all must pause in their tracks, because
they dare not become separated. At night
they usually built four little fires, and with
In the space marked off by these fires they
lay down TO sleep. The lions were quite
numerous, and the fires were needed to keep
off these and other wild beasts
One day the party came to few huts.
They were nearly starved, and decided to
to send two of the servants ahead to see if
these were abandoned huts where they
could take refuge for the night. The
black men returned with the news that
there were three MaSchukulumbe in the
huts, and two black men who lived out sde
the hostile territory. The porterS advised
that thrse men be killed. They thought the
savages had store of food that would SuS-
tain the furnishing party for several days.
H0lub. of course, would net listen to this
suggestion, but the party went to the hutS,
aud though the natives were afraid of them,
they relieved the hunger of their visitors.
At this time Mrs. Holub was in pitiable
plight. She was unable to walk, and had
begged her husband to leave her behind and
save himself and his poor comrades. They
were so weak they could hardly carry her,
aud progress was therefore very Slow. NOW
occurred an incident which shows that the
most humane aud generous impulses may
move even the benighted men Of Central
Africa to noble actions. The two friendly
natives in these huts, whom Holub's men
had wished to kill, heard with the greatest
sympathy the story of terrible suffering
Then they said to the leader of the expedi-
ton:
Your poor wife here can travel no longer,
and you are too weak to carry her. We will
make hammock, and we will carry her.
Then you can go more rapidly, and soon get
out OF this land where every one wants to
kill you"
''But," said DR.. Holub, 81 have no cloth,
and nothing with which to pay you"
1--WE care not Tor that" said the men.
'sYou are in trouble, and we will carry your
wife south to our own country, where you
will all be among friends"
So they made hammock in which the two
strong men bore the suffering woman for
more than twenty miles outside the hostile
country. There the whites indeed found
friends and food in plenty, and they felt
almost happy again, for they knew that,
though the road before them was still long
and difficult, they need fear man no longer
There were perils of wild beasts and of the
thiiSt plains, but these had for them no such
terrors as the dangers they had escaped.
1t was February IL, 1887, when the little
party, almost dead with fatigue, ragged and
careworn, suddenly appeared in ShUspODg,
the northern post of civilization In South
Africa. Their temperance made a great
sensation, for they were believed TO have
been killed in the hostile country. The re-
treat had lasted eight months, and perhaps
no other white travellers in Africa have ever
encountered such peTilS for so long period
and lived through them. And the remark
able feature of the expedition was that the
sufferers included an educated white woman
who. though she had been tenderly nurtured
in Europe, wlthSt0Od these days Of trial as
well as The strong men OF the party, and sur
yiytd the hardshIpo to Which three of them
had succumb bed.