Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-03
"THE BEST HATED MAN IN AFRICA
DR.. Max Schapiro Says Henry NJ. Stanley IL
That Gentleman.

DIR. Max Schapiro Says Henry NJ. Stanley IL
That Gentleman.
From the New York Sun.
DIR. Max Schapiro of this city has recently re-
turned from an extended tour to the southwest
coast OF Africa, where he was sent as a collector
of curios for the Imperial Museum of Natural
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 surgeon on the Zulu Bohten of the
Woermen line Of steamers, plying between
Hamburg and ST. Paul de Loanda, of 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 that vicinity.
The doctor went first to Togo, one Of the
smaller coast states, where he proceeded to in
gratiate himself with the natives by presenting
them with beads, brass jewelry and gayiy col
ored petticoats. Having distributed this fnery
with hberality the doctor was permitted TO 90
about the state wherever he liked. Another
thing that worked to his advantage was the fact
that he was alone and not making his researches
with big guard trailing after him. The ma
tives, ignorant as they are. know that one man
can do them no harm.
DIR. Schapiro secured many valuable speci-
mens-birds, snakes, wild animals, geological
curios, implements Of warfare, ancient and
modern, and everything that he met with that
would be valuable for the museum Togo is q
German possession and Gen. Puttkammer. q
German officer, is its governor. The native
soldiers are attired in the regalia Of the German
army and are faithfully and carefully drilled
DR.. Schapiro says they exhibit 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 dog learns the difference between
sit up" and roll over" They have a smet-
tering OF Portuguese, Of Spanish and French,
but they use their own language among them.
made soldiers fight. when the occasion demands.
like guerrillas. They are brave enough but
they prefer to do their battling from ambush
The women of Ashantee battle like tigresses and
are feared by the white soldiers as much as the
men.
From Togo DR.. Schapiro went to Lagos. A
port in Dahomey, which Mr.. Hoyt has made
famous in "A Texas Steer" Here the people
are more civilized, but still are Just as ready to
block any invasions of the white men 10 the in
terror as they are at Togo. Then down the
coast to Fernando Pc, q little island but a short
distance from the mainland. Here there are
number of whites who carry on e 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 five and
six years old and educate them until they are of
sufficient age and intelligence to be sent out as
missionaries into the wilder parts Of the coun-
try. The Protestants have also stablished
missions here, but they are not a. powerful or
popular among the natives a. the Catholics
Victoria, another German possession, was DR..
schapiro's next hating place. Victoria is in
CAMERON, of the Gulf Of Guinea. Then TO
the town Of CAMERON, for which the Germans
have been fighting 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 m lseum.
The breeziest bit of information the doctor
has to impsrt relates to Henry NJ 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 10 NO one, he says,
but has bitter contempt for him. DR.. Schapiro
says that the general talk among the whites Is
that If Stanley ever shows his face in Africa
again he win Be roughly treated. This intense
feeling, he says, Is felt on account of Stanley's
treatment OF his guards and his native war
riors. Many express wonder, now that II Is all
over, that Stanley succeeded in reaching civili-
cation again alive, for II IL claimed In Africa
that his cruelty TO his men was suf1cient to pro-
woke mutiny. When the namea Of Livingstone,
Nachugall, Emin Pasha and otAsrs are mem
TONED the natives have only the kindlisst words.
The memory Of the former 10 greatly revered;
the second named has . handsome monument
erected to his memory at Cameroon and Emin
pasha Is today q favorits with everybody. About
ths only thing Stanley is given credit for = his
only explorer who ever vent into Africa and
returned with . fortune. He made Il, DR..
Bchapiro SAYS, BY selling the products OF the
country to the ships that would land at the
ports nearest to his campo.