The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-04-18

natives on shore TOR the lhuu
d the Equator are an offshoot 81 the
great Balolo and sreak kindred
iohgue) we're soon dancing round sew
eral fires with their new-formed chums.
while Glave and talked 70 the chief
and interviewed him as 10 the POSSIBLE
\ites OF many days stcaming yet before
Aserc We should reach the end Of nayi-
ble river.
KWe had up to this been unsucccss-
vi in obtaining any thing like the
|<pan:ity OF ivory we expected TO find in
\ &c Lulungn. our total stock purchased
kN that received as presents from
Mood brothers" only amounting TO
ltdk hundred pounds weight, which
said cost Us pretty dear. too
However. in the morning we found
ourselves surrounded by canoes contain
ing magnificent tusks or were besiegcd
from the shore side by crowd Of old
Lolos. followed BY sons or slaves stag
gcring under beautiful white sixty
pound or seventy pound tusks. Fully
ton-weight Of ivory was brought along
side the Florida that day. but Glavc.
unwilling to spoil the price. would only
buy about three hundred and fifty to
four hundred pounds weight Of it. which
he secured for prices averaging two
pence and three pence per pound, paid
chiefly in brass wire and white and blue
beads. such as children use at homo for
making into toy-rings, which these
larger African children put to the very
same uses. A man on getting paid for
the ivory he had just sold would make
81 AZ once with the tin soup-platc full
q beads in his hands, glowing lengths
o. reelection handkcrchicfs or blue
Cloth streaming out behind him: and
the other items received. such as
spoons. brass wire. mirrors, and odds
and ends like these. grazing the
arms Of his adhercnts who followed
in his wake thrusting their way through
The crowd Of would-be sellers Of ivory,
who regarded with longing eyes this
rayishing transit of such wealth through
their midst. or even grabbed 1t the
leads as they shot past. thereby pro-
voking an awful row and the scatter
ing of many small boys 20 the winds.
ana sometimes the precious beads them
selves. when the scramble which cnsucd
bcggars description.
busy day was thus spent at Baulu.
and promising to buy plenty Of their re-
naming ivory on our return. by which
tlme We guessed the beads would have
done their deadly work. we badc fare
we'll TO the chief, and kindly disposed
people Of this happy Central African
village
We left Baulu in the afternoon and
speedily became aware Of the fact that
VIZ had left dry land behind Us also, for
thc TWO little villages we soon came to
consisted Of huts raised upon piles
Standing In the water. and around on
Every side We could see no trace Of bank
y shore TO the river. Tho bordering
me 81 great forest trees on each hand
STOOD In the rushing water. and as VIC
steamed on hoping to come to some spot
wnerc solid earth would enable us to
camp Tor the night and cut up dead
wood Tor next day We passed frequent
n''ie fishing settlements. but all con-
suucted In the same manner.
AZ last we were compelled BY dark
ass and want Of fuel to stop It one Of
.nese ior the night. The occupants Of
" lew houses speedily stepped from 4
sneir little vcrandahs into their dug
~ canoes fastened TO ono Of the sup
porting pillars Of tho structure and came
~ ~ Us where we had attached the bow
y 'ne steamer TO the jutting branch o.
aAiien tree which rose from the surface
81 the river.
v'ncr canoes from the villages we had
passed gathered round Us, too, and
1ssn dctachments from up river came