The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26

WIZ Pi"0eu AdlAr kTaalS, Dullt In order
~ groups with verandas, after the Be
sutu fashion, and very large part of tn
entire space of land was under cultiya
ton. ALI of this noted at once, as we
as the extraordinary richness and dent
OF the soil, which for many ages past ba,
oeen washed down from the mountain
heights. Then following the line of a,
excellent wagon road, on which we nov
found ourselves, that wound I'D from
terrace to terrace, my eye lit upon tn
browning wonder of the scene. For i,
the center of the topmost platform O.
terrace, which may have inclosed eigh
OF ten acres of ground, and almost sur
rounded by groves of orange trees
CLEANED buildings of which | had neve,
seen the like. There were three groun,
OF them, one in the middle and one or
either side, and little to the rear: bnt
as L afterwards discovered, the plan nj
all was the same. In the center was an
edltlce constructed like an ordinary Zulu
hut-that IS to say, in the shape of q
beehive, only it was five times the size
OF any hut | ever saw, and built of
blocks of hewn white marble. fitted f.
gether with extraordinary knowledge of
the principles and properties of arch
building, and with so much accuracy
ana flnlsh that it was often difficult to
ma the fronts of the massive blocks
from tins center hut ran three covered
passages, leading to other buildings of
an exactly similar character, only small
er, and each whole block was inclosad
height. -
VI course we were as yet too far off to
see all these details, but the general out
Inc saw at once, and it astonished me
considerably. Even old Indaba-zimbi
whom the baboon woman had been mn.
able to move, deigned to show wonder.
OIL" he said, "this is place of mar
Vels. Who ever saw kraals built of white
stone?",
Stella watched our faces with an ex-
preston of intense amusement. but said
nothing.
Did your father build those kraalsp"
gasped at length.
ia'her! no, OF course not" she
answered. "How would it have been
possible for one white man to do so or
to have made this road? He found them
as you see.'
Who built them, then?' I said again.
i do not know. My father thinks
that they are very ancient, for the peo-
pie who live here now do not know how
10 lay one stone upon another, and these
nuts are so wonderfully constructed
that, though they must have stood for |
ages, not stone of them had fallen
But can show you the quarry where
,he marble was cut; it is close by, and
oehlnd 1t IS the entrance to an ancient
NINE, which my father thinks was y
silver mine. Perhaps the people who
worked the mine built the marble hints
! he world is old, and no doubt plenty of
people have lived in it and been for.
gotten"
Then we rode on in silence. | have
cen many beautiful sights in Africa.
ma In such matters, as in others. COM
are odious and worthless, but I
10 not think that / ever saw a lovelier
Gene. 1t was no one thing-it was the
of the mighty peak looking
ofth on to the everlasting plains. the
reat clitfs, the waterfalls that sparkled
J: rainbow hues, the rivers girdling the
ich cultivated lands, the gold specled
'feen OF the orange trees. the flashing
ZONES OF the marble huts, and a thou
and other things. Then over all brooded
ne peace of evening, and the infinite
Tory of the sunset that filled heaven
Nth changing hues of splendor, that t
trapped the mountain and cliffs in r
loaks of purple and of gold, and Law
pom the quiet face of the water li-.e; :
nile of god.
Perhaps, also, the contrast and the Y
lemory of those three awful DAYS and a
lights IN the hopeless desert enhanced c
lie charm, and perhaps the beauty of +
lie girl who walked beside me completed v
For of this am sure, that of all II
veet and lovely things that looked on t,
len' she was the sweetest and the love- @
est All, it did not take ME lone to h
nd my fate. How long will it be before f;
find her once again? a