The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-10-29

marble haals, as I have said, faced
west, consequently all the upper terrace
lay in the shadow Of the great peak till
| nearly eleven o'clock in the morning,
which was great advantage in that
warm latitude. First we walked through
the garden, which was beautifully Guilt
| waited, and one of the most productive
that ever saw. There were three or
four natives working in it, and they all
salured my host as "Baba," OF father.
| Then We visited the other two groups
| of marble huts. One of these was used
for stables and outbuildings, the other
as storehouses, the center hut having
| been, however, turned into a chapel
Mr.. Carson was not ordained, but he
| earnestly tried to convert the natives,
! most of whom were refugees who had
come to him for shelter, and he prac-
| ced the more elementary rites of the
church for so long that I think he began
to believe that he really was clergy
| man. For instance, he always married
those of his people who would consent
to homogeneous existence and bap-
| tiled their children. When we had ex-
| amined these wonderful remains of an
! tiquity, the marble huts, and admired
| the orange trees, the vines and fruits
| which thrive like weeds in this marvel
Gus soil and climate, we descended to
the next platform and saw the farming
operations in full swing. l think that
it was the best farm have ever seen in
Africa. There was ample water for pur-
poses of irrigation, the grass lands be
low gave pasturage for hundreds of head
of cattle and horses, and, for
natives, the people were most in
dustrious. Moreover, the whole place
was managed by Mr.. Carson on the CO
operative system; he only took 1.-THE Of
the predetermined, in this land of
teeming plenty, what was he to do with
by the way, called themselves the
Children of Thomas" were able to &C
cumulate considerable wealth. All their
disputes were referred to their ''father."
and he also was Judge Of oftenses and
crimes. Some were punished by i'm
prisonment, whipping and loss Of goods,
other and graver transgressions by ex-
pulsion from the community, a nat
which to one of these favored natives
must have seemed as heavy as the de-
cree that drove Adam from the garden
of Eden.
Old Mr.. Carson leaned upon his daugh
ter's arm and contemplated the scene
with pride.
81 have done all this, Allan Quater-
MAN, he said. ''When renouncing
civilization first, 1 wandered here by
chance; seeking home in the remotest
places in the world, found this lonely
spot a wilderness. Nothing was to
be seen except the site, the domes
Of the marble huts and the
waterfalls. 1 took possession of
the huts. Icleared the patch of garden
land and planted the orange grove. 1
had only six natives then, but by de-
grees others joined me; now my tribe is
thousand strong. Here We live in
profound peace and plenty. have all I
need, and ask no more. Heaven has
prospered me so far-may it be so to the
end, which for me draws nigh. And
now am tired and will go back. If you
wish to see the old quarry and the
mouth of the ancient mines, Stella will
show them to you. No, my love, you
need not trouble to come. can man
age alone. Look, some of the head men
are waiting to see me-"
So he went, but, still followed by
Hendrika and Indaba-zimbi, we turned,
and, walking along the bank of one of
the rivers, passed up behind the marble
kraals, and came to the quarry, whence
! the material had been cut in some re-
mote age. The pit opened up very
thick seam of the whitest and most
beautiful marble. know another like
it in Natal. But by whom it had been
worked I can not say. Not by natives,
| that is ce1 tain, though the builders of
the kraals had condescended to borrow
the shape of native huts for their model.
| The only relic of those builders that l
| ever saw was highly-fnished bronze
pick-axe which Stella found one day in
the quarry. After we had examined the
quarry we climbed the slope of the hill
| till we came to the mouth of the ancient
mines situated in kind Of gorge. be-
lieve them to have been silver mines.
| The gorge was long and narrow, and the
moment we entered it there rose from
every side sound of groaning and bark
ing that was almost enough to deafen
one l knew what it was at once; the
whole place was filled with balloons,
| which clambered down the rocks to-
wards US from every direction, in man
ner that struck me as being unusually
fearless. Stella turned little pale and
chung to my arm.
st is very silly Of me-" she whis-
pered. 81 am not at all nervous, but l
| can not bear the sight of those animals
ever since they killed Hendrix. 1 al
ways think there is something human
about them"
Meanwhile the balloons came nearer,
talking to each other as they came.
Tota began to cry and chung to Stella.
Stella chung to me, while 1 and Indaba-
zimbi put as bold a front on the matter
as we could. Only Hendrika stood look
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