The morning call., 1891-02-22
Sacks and CltaVaTS,
N0DDT Ones, Il Go During
This Sale at
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food the men were fore to subsist upon. 1t is

food the men were for C to subsist upon. 1t is
as follows
think the Zanzlharis are quite the most bare
faced Liars ever met in my life. One night took
a rife from one Of the sentries who was asleep and
brought il to my house. leaving 1t against palm at
the door. went back and woke up the sentry, ask
ing him where his gun HI At once took hold
Of another mans gun aud said Il was his. told
him to come with me and I would show him where
II was which did, and he tEen calmly told me- oh,
yes he LETT II there. and making sign with his
finger ms throat, said might cut it If he had
been asleep. H. found out however. who had taken
il when he got tW enty-fiye strokes IN the morning
1t is really great shame the state our biscuit
We opened a fresh box to-day. OF the tin-llned
and he water had got intO it so that the bis
cult were a mass of blue mold weevlls and small
maggots. The only way We can them Is by
roasting them III the hot embers or in the frying
ran which Kills the "bastes." l have 10 doubt
that they are more nourIsiiug with the quantity OF
animal food III them, but prefer them without.
In one entry lie audes 10 tile caunibalism of
the natives; lie whites from The camp at Leo
podvle:
The Bangalss who were with me in the canoe
came from higher up the river and are the people
~hom Stanley Fought. Ihey nave never forgiven
him Tor killing the brother OF the chief. They are
cannibaIs and file their teeth into points. They
told me that one OF Their chiefs who was very rich,
IS now quite poor from buying nice, fat young
women to eat; this know to be fact. The price
OF one IS rom three TO Tour hundred kahtakas short
brass rods. the money Of the country. They eat
all OF those whom they xiii in battle. They remove
the inside, SGuh them with bananas ana roast them
whole overa big iire. = Tippu Tib told me that
they usually Kill several people and have grand
feast, Tor the Nacusu are terrible cannio"ls.
told MIN people at home generally believed that
these were only travellers tales" as they arc
called in our country. OF, in other words. lies HI
then said something 10 an Arab called Ali, seated
next to him, who turned round TO me and said.
g Give me a bit OF cloth and see" sent my boy
for six handker hiefs, thinking II all joke and
that they not in earnest, but presently ap
peared leading by the hand DUNG girl one probably
about ten years Old, and then Witnessed the most
horribly sickening sight am ever likely to in
my life. He plunged knife quickly into her breast
twice, and she fell on her face turning over her
side. Three men then ran forward and began TO cut
up the body Of the girl: finally her head was cut of
and particle remained, each man taking his
piece away down to the river 10 wash IT, The most
extraordinary thing that the girl never uttered
4 sound struggled. until She fell Until the last
moment could not believe that they were H.
est have heard a great many stores OF this KIND
since have been in tn country. but could not be
iieve them. and l never would have been such
beast as to witness this but l could not bring my
self to believe that anything but to get
money out OF me until the last moment The girl
slave from village close to this town, and
the cannbals were Wacusu slaves and natives OF
this place. called Mculusi when / went home l
tried to make some small sketches OF the scene
while It was Sill fresh in my memory not that il is
likely to fade from it. No one seemed TO be in the
least aStonished at ii.
The latter portion Of This extract from the
diary Is about as revolving thing as has ever
been described; an intelligent man, Christian,
bTiblng some untutored savages 10 commit a ter
flbc crime ana Then declaring that lie thought
that 1t was only joke, is something fearful TO
contemplate. and IFS Insertion In this narrative
does MOI reflect 10 the credit OF the judgment OF
those who edited The book, as II was Que of those
Incidents That might as we'll have been lett out,
but IL serves one pufpose-it shows that the
writing OF The man who kept Tie diary has not
been tempered with. II is no wonder that STAN
ley as the chief OF the exploration party should
Try 10 throw disciedit anything that is so bar
barOus as The scene described
The book also contains facsimile OF letter
written by Tippu lib. with a translation, and an
appendix IN which is given The result OF the dis
eoveries of the naturalist. Taken as a whole 1t
is work That Will be read with a great deal of
interest ard VIII attract much attention, for 1t is
instructive and entertaining, every page adding
TO the knowledge that many may already have OF
the Dark Continent. The illustrations, aud there
are many OF them, aie unusually good.
ADVENTURES ON THE MOSQUITO SHORE
BY L. &. Squier. New York: Woitbington
Company. 366 pages, illustrated, cloth 81 20,
travels, written by The daring American ex-
ploIer and naturalist L. 6. Squier, who at one
i I'm had the honor OF being Minister from the
united States 10 The Central American States,
and well known as the author OF Nicaragua
Peru" and other interesting books of travel.
In this work The author gives an account OF
travel, sights and scenes on the Mosquito Shore
which Is that portion OF The eastern coast OF Cen
trail America lying be ween Cape Gracias Dos
and Binehelds Lagoon, distance OF about 200
miles. The adventures are not dry recital of
facts and Statistics but IL is most Interestingly
told story oil what The author saw. aud Is as en-
chanting as the Adventures OF Robinson Cru
soc" or Dumas Count OF Monte Cristo." He
tells OF the wonderful people he met, OF the
beautiful scenery and narrates much that is
new to many. There is touch Of humor In The
work that makes it bic to the reader, and
IL Is, as has been truly declared by the London
iiuieS' ohS VI tbo must Charming accounts oil
travel Of any out-ol-ihe. way lands ever written"
For sale By Pierson Il Robertson, Post street.
LIFE AND TIMES OF JESUS, AS RELATED
BY THOMAS DIDYMUs-By James Freeman
Clarke. (BOst0n: Lee & Shepard) In this vol
ume DR.. Clarke undertakes 10 tell tie story OF
the Gospels from the lips Of lie doubling dis
ciple. In the earlier chapters The life OF a Jew
ish boy growing up by Gennesareth Is traced I'M
I'll lie reaches manhood. aud the other characters
which are woven into TIE story are developed,
thus recfeaing the very atmosphere OF the time.
The chief part OF the work is devoted 10 the
narrative Of the incidents In the life Of the