Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-28
STANLEY IN A NEW LIGHT.
Traveller Says He is the Best Hated
Man in Africa.

T.
recently returned from an extended
tour to the southwest coast of Africa,
where he was sent as collector OF Gu
rios FOR the Imperial Museum of Natu-
raj History at Vienna.
The Doctor secured the responsible
mission because of his familiarity with
that portion of the dark continent, he
having served for several years as sur
geon on the Zulu Bohten, of the Woer-
men line of steamers, plying between
Hamburg and st. Paul de Ioanda, Oft
the coast of Lower Guinea. He had
secured fourteen boxes of specimens
during one of these trips and presented
them to the Imperial Museum, and the
officials at once engaged him to make
further researches of the vicinity.
The Doctor went first to Togo, one Of
the smaller coast states, where he pro-
ceeded to ingratiate himself with the
natives by presenting them with beads,
brass iewelry and gavly colored petit
coats. Having distributed this inery
with liberality, the Doctor was per-
mitted TO go about the state wherever
he liked. Another thing that worked
to his advantage was the fact that he
was alone and not making his re-
searches with big guard trailing after
him. The natives, ignorant as they are,
know that one man can do them no
harm.
Dr. Schapiro secured many valuable
specimens-birds, snakes, wild animals,
geological curios, implements Of war
fare, ancient and modern, and every
thing that he met with that would be
valuable for the museum. Togo is q
German possession, and Gen. Puttkam-
mer, a German officer, is its governor.
The native soldiers are attlred IN the
regalia of the German army and are
faithfully and carefully drilled. DIR.
Schapiro SAYS they exhibit a proficiency
and interest in military matters that
would do credit to many white soldiers.
The only German they understand are
the commands and they acquire these
just as a dog learns the difference be-
tween ''sit up and roll over" They
have a smattering of Portuguese, of
Spanish and French, but they use their
own languages among themselves ex-
clusively. The natives who will not be
made soldiers fight, when the occasion
demands, like guerrillas. They are
brave enough, but they prefer to do
their battling from ambush. The wom-
en- of Ashantee battle like tigresses and
are feared by the white soldiers as much
as the men.
From Togo, says the New York Sun,
DR.. Schapiro went to Lagos, port in
Dahomey, which Mr.. Hoyt has made
famous in ga Texas Steer" Here the
people are more civilized, but still are
Just as ready to block any invasions Of
the white men to the interior as they
are at Togo. Then down the coast to
Fernando Pc, little island but short
distance from the mainland. Here
there a number of whites who carry on
a business with ships that touch at the
island, selling them ivory, ebony, palm
nuts and gum and coffee, The French
Catholics have established missions
here and are doing much good. They
take the little negroes when they are
between or years old and edu-
cate them until they are of sufficient
age and intelligence to be sent out as
missionaries into the wilder part Of the
country. The Protestants have also
established missions here, but they are
not as powerful or popular among the
natives as the Catholics.
Victoria, another German possession,
was DR.. Schapiro's next hating place.
Victoria is in CAMERON, off the Gulf of
Guinea. Then to the town of CAMERON,
for which the Germans have been fight
ing for years and spending more money
than they could ever make from the
place in commerce. Here the Doctor
secured four species of monster snakes
entirely new to the museum.
The breeziest bit Of information the
doctor has to impart relates to Henry
M. Stanley. He says Stanley is the best
hated man in all Africa. From the
governors Of the states to the lowlIest
savage on the continent there is no one,
he says, but has bitter contempt Tor him.
DR.. SchapIro saws that the general talk
among the whites is that if Stanley ever
shows his face in Africa again he will
be roughly treated. This intense feeling,
he says, is felt on account of SANKEY'S
treatment of his guards and his native
warriors. Many express wonder, now
that it is all over, that Stanley succeeded
in reaching civilization again alive, for
it is claimed in Africa that his cruelty
to his men was sufficient to provoke
mutIny. When the names of Living
stone, Nacktigall, Emin Pasha and
others are mentioned the natives have
only the kindliest words. The memory
of the former is greatly revered; the
second named has a handsome monu-
ment erected to his memory at Came
room and Emin Pasha is to-day favor
lite with everybody. About the only
thing Stanley is given credit Tor is his
ability to make money. They say
Stanley is the only explorer who ever
went into Africa and returned with
fortune. He made it, DR.. Schaplro
says, by selling the products of the
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