Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-14

Sun. honeycombed when wet By the hoofs of
| cattle. so that ii was literally torture to our
bare-footcd friends to cross it.
The heat was terrible under the MONDAY
sur; il was perfectly clear above, but by star
! ing into vacancy. il were. one could see a
sort of vibrating movement of the atmosphere.
such as attends the mirage and often gives the
Appearance ON these plsins of distant sheet of
water against the darker lines of hills beyond
we also saw a number OF dust spouts careening
about the plain. although there seemed not
breath of wind where we're walking. Half
an hour took Us to the camping place, at a kind
OF oasis formed b. tiny group of trees about
the conte- of the plain. Many OF the men WERE
4 could see dead beat, and arrived painting and
quite unit for further effort. and it required
great deal of shouting and persuasion TO get the
camp formed at all. Some were battling drops
OF water out of the bottom of two huge pits
about thirty feet deep. II was but poor.
shiny liquid. and they had to keep waiting for
IT TO ooze through.
The evening closed in with ominous signs
OF change of weather, bat awnings were care
fully rugged to catch water and vessels pre-
pared TO receive it. 1t seemed as though had
out Just dropped off to sleep when suddenly
awoke to find my husband standing before me
dripping with wet and holding lantern in his
hand Looking over the side of the bed | saw
nothing but water, in which my bed formed a
sort OF island, and was just in time to catch my
shoes as they hoated BY. / was quickly carried
away TO higher ground, and just as left the tent
door tremendous rush of water was heard in
the rear of the tent. We found afterward that
one of the high pits had filed and that water
was overtiowing into the other. The darkness
was intense and the glimpses obtained during
The flashes OF lightning revealed nothing but
water apparently ali over the plain, leaving our
camping place only above the level"
DID NOT LIKE TIE BOAT.
Capt. Hore tells how during his first trips
over Lake Tanganyika in his smaller boat be-
fore the thirty-ton steel steamer was built he
had rs his sailors a number Of natives. who
served him faithfully and well. When he re-
turned with the parts of the steamer and began
to put them together these old sailors of his
crowded around him and asked him eagerly
what he was doing Then they were astonished
that a boat should come to pieces in that way
and stood around while the work was in pro-
gresg III great wonder. When the time came
to get the men for his craft he asked his old
sailors to SO with HIM, and they agreed az first,
but one day, after having acted queerly
around the new boat for some time
they vent to his house aud called him ont, say
ing that they wan.ed 20 tex &c him. One of
them. acting as spokesman. said: Master, we
are vllilng.to 80 anywhere with you. We VII
serve you faithfully ard we vii do all We can
to help yCu. bit :here is one thing that We can
not do. We cannot &C cut IN the lake IN
saucepan l. took some time to convince
these simple men that the steel boat was safer
and better than the old wooden one. H. was
done by taking them down every day to the
boat a. she lay moored 2. the little wharf. and
removing tine plank covering over the BOTTOM
tapping the dry sides of steel and blowing the
t:Jlst away from the surface. When it Was OK
planned 10 them that there would be no need TO
bail such "a boat, the men were gradually con-
verted.