Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-14
THE DARK CONTINENT
How Capt. Hore and His Wife Trav-
eled in the Wilderness.
IN AFRICS SUNNY CLINE.
Visitors to This City Who Have Had Inter-
estirs ISperiences-A Woman Ina q Wheel
Chs,ir-Mr-. Hore's Journal-Eleyen Years
With Sasages.

Washington folks have been treated TO a
genuine novelty this winter by the presence IN
their midst. telling If his strange experiences.
of mariner WHO found his way into the heart
of africa. and what is stranger and more
unique. found his way ont again. The various
talAs OF Capt Elw. {. HOre. F. II. Or. =, master
mariner Of London. England. that have been
given during the past few weeks IN lecture
room. church. school. and private assembly.
ABOUT his penetration into the density OF
African growth end mystery, and his eleven
wears of life there among the natives. as one OF
them and part OF them. have given people here
"A taste for adventure. and especially Tor African
travel. that was started. perhaps. by the more
famous traveller. Stanley.
Capt. Eore, however. has not been following
in the footprints Of his more renowned col
league IN shis line of life, but has been showing
quite a different state of things than that which
Stanley indicated; has been telling of quite
different sort OF "a life among tie natives of
Africa. ard has boon showing quite a different
stage of civilization. among these barbarians of
the wilderness ihIa that which the talks and
writings Of Stanley would lead ono TO believe
ever existed. 1t might be remarked in passing
that Capt HOre has not verv exalted opinion
of Stanley, whose work in Africa he describes
as anciyilizing =atlI n than clcvating. For ex-
ample. he points to hi; record of having liter
ally fought his way 20 Lake Tanganyika over
lLc sdlit pain Oapt- lAoTt IAorSu h4hA-Ohb
having lost ma1 from other than sickness
and without killing or woundins single
native.
HIS LECTURE AT THE NATIONAL NUsErd.
Capt HOre last nightrepeated at the National
Museum his lecture the Heart of Africa"
which he delivered before the National Geo
graphic Society week ago at the Cosmos Club.
with certain special references to matters OH
which particular calculation was desired by
some folks This lecture is very interesting.
telling 1t does O. the formation of the great
dark continent. OF which the heart is the Large
fresh water SEA nesting amid the Mountains of
tie Moon. then describing a journey through
the w.ids of this unbrokeu country, 500 miles
from the coast. 10 the town Of Ujiji. where one
fin..s a growing town on the banks of the lake
Then the captain goes on 20 show how he and
his helpers Uilt on that far isolated water a
steel steamboat of about thirty tons burden,
which Il now used as an agent of civilization in
this land osdarkness.
One o. the most interesting features of Capt
HOrr experiences was the iact that during
portion of his travelling he accompanied by
his wife and child. who not only withstOod the
trials and jaI,ger- of this life. but thrived upon
them and emerged unframed from the midss
.! hem Mrs. hOre IL very bright woman
and has written good deal about her cXper-
fences in .he wilderness that may shortly be
published on this side of the Atlantic IN book
form by her husband.
Capt. HJTe is t.tll. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
man. with a black beard and q . IN, inteliigen.
eye-that show no sign ii fear within its depths