Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

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Continents Secrets.
In II ecture now being delivered i'll
tins 'auntry, emitlel Equatorial
AT Explorer Stanley opens with Il
g'an .c draN ing of the great and gloomy
for st, through which his expedition
m rclrd for 100 days. He speaks of
the great height OF TIE trees, the growth
of leafy vines. The forest, which was
dark even at MONDAY, became dreadful
in a'storm. The for st, the tempest, a"d
the darkness produced tin ir effects IN
the minds of the people with him. He
describes how rapturous the men were
when they emerged from the great f'r-
ests. But they stopped to scowl at the
dense woods they had left.
There are many inhabitants in the
re sion, but they could be classed into
tail inhabitants and the pigmies. The
tall atves occupy the clearingS; the
pigmes are found in caves.
The natives have for weapons spears,
knives, battle axes, and often swords.
The pigmies are nomadic. The large in-
habitants build C impact villages, with one
principal street, which is generally filled
with goats and fowl. They are, never
theless, cannibals, but they do not feed
on their relatives or friends. 1t is only
when they make a capture from another
tribe that they eat human flesh. He
had seen a woman, who had been
speared in the throat, laid on bier
ready to be cooked. She was sick, and
had been left by a marauding party.
Another case had also been personally
observed by him: During their journey
they had captured hundreds of the ma
tives, who assisted them in directing
them to banana groves and other places
for procuring food but they released
them after the expedition had passed
beyond the territory of those they had
captured, as they were thenceforth use
less to them
The pigmies, who reach about up to
full grown waist, have abundant food,
as have also the larger natives. They
have many kinds of fruits some of them
as large as walermelons They catch
elephants in pitfalls, and other animals
and insects fit for food are abundant.
He considered these people the lowest
of the human race morally. Their graft
tude is as short lived as bulldogs.
One day they caught a beautiful
young queen al Iout IS years of age, but
a pigmy. She was about the color of
yellow ivory. She had a narrow girdle
at the waist, with iron rings on it that
looked like washers. She had ivory
rings on her arms and ankles. She was
used by one of the party as servant,
and she became very docile and adept.
o. another occasion their scouts
fetched in a pig ny man and woman and
a boy. The man Was very proud, and
strutted around with dignity. The
woman carried pack that would hold
two bushels. The boy became a very
industrious servant, characteristic
which is rare in Africa.
Mr.. Stanley tells of the long lost
Mountains of the Moons, which rose like
two truncated cones, and the Snow
Mountains, which had 'rst on their
gaze and hung for three days in view in
a most pellucid atmosphere. He traced
the waters from the Snow Mountains
to Lake Albert Edward, and from there
to the White Nile. AS they approached
this lake they emerged from the forest
and found large grassy plain.
He pa ses rapidly over the journey to
the coast at Zanzibar, but dweIls on their
subsequent difficulties there with Emin
Pasha. 1t was not until they were ap-
preaching the coast that they learned
of the rivalry between the English and
Germans to curry favor with the Sultan
of Zanzibar Emin was German and
was influenced by his countrymen.
They found that his gratitude was not
very deep. He had embraced the men,
bers of their expedition at the banquet
given him at the coast with apparent
affection, and in going out fell over a
balcony and was injured. They were
not allowed to see him at the hospital.
His subsequent inciviliy had been
famed into hospitality by his country
men. Emin had been fourteen years
absent in Africa.