Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-10

and spear heads are barbed, 50 that they re-
main imbedded in the flesh. As fighters the
Batwa are reputed to be pugnacious and
ugly. Being slight, they steal noiselessly
upon the enemy, %wounding and killing with
their poisoned weapons. They are cannibals
and the natives of other tribes are in fear of
them. The explorer Grenfell, who traversed
the Batwa country last year, was warned to
avoid the dwarfs, because they permit no one
to enter their country. The Batwa wear a
loincloth but no other clothing, and are very
savage in their customs. The geographer
Won Francois, writing of his experiences in
this region, describes the bowling little de-
mons on the shores of the Bussera, which
borders their land, showering arrows against
the steamer, clambering up rocky precipices
or swinging like monkeys from the limbs of
trees to get a fair range of the white mans
vessel.
In this connection the following account of
the residence of a white missionary in a part of
Central Africa not here before mentioned,
may not be inappropriate. In February, 1885,
Mr.. F. S.. Arnot, a young Scotch missionary
who had already shown remarkable capacity
for African travel, reached the large Garen-
game tribe, almost exactly midway between
the Atlantic and Indian oceans, in about IL
degs. south latitude. He decided to settle
there, and unless he has lately left the coun-
try has since died alone in the heart of Africa
among this interesting and hitherto unknown
people. For some years the name of this
country has appeared on the maps as Garan-
ganja. Richard and Bohm approached with.
in a short distance of the tribe on the north
and the route of Capello and 1vens skirted
their territory on the south, but Arnot is the
first to describe the country and people.
l. 1000 l. 500 ,.,,n ,,Aar fka I ,,G,a r;xyar
one of the head streams Of the Congo, two
months journey from the nearest white sta
ton on Lake Nyassa. 1t is the country of the
powerful Chief Moshide, who cordially well
coined the white stranger when he came to
him across the continent with a few native
attendants and asked leave to settle. Mr..
Arnot has built a house at Mukuru, the large
and struggling town of the chief. All the
country is thickly populated, and in a two
hours tramp Arnot counted forty-three vii
lagos.
For a long time none of the common people
deigned to speak to the white stranger unless
be first addressed them. They refer to the
white mans country as the hell of the blacks.
Stories of the cruel days of the export slave
trade have reached their far inland home.
They say that the white mans land offers
nothing but misery and slavery to the negro.
Mr.. Arnot gradually gained their sympathy
and affection by caring for their sick. The
potency of his medical skill won him fame
and friends, and he now roan.s through the
large country at will, and no one disputes his
right to do as he pleases.
1t is a country of grain fields, where,
strange to say, the men themselves till the
soil. All the land is cultivated. The mar
ried men tell Mr.. Arnot that it would be
dangerous for them to go home after their
days toll without a large bundle of wood to
feed the fire during the night. Woman in
Garenganze, it appears, is not a down trod-
den mental, as in many other parts of Africa.
She believes she has rights, dares to assert
them, and the missionary credits her with
great talent and huency as a scold.
One would suppose, from the immense
quantity of grain raised, that there would
always be an abundance of food. A large
part of the grain, however, is used in brew