St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-06

from the rotten quartz rock. Many pits,
some of them 100 feet deep, and reducing
furnaces for the refining of gold were found,
and temples, fortresses and dwellings in pro-
fusion. The encircling walls, built of small
blocks OF granite, were in some parts thirty
feet high and seventeen feet thick, laid up
without mortar and with courses of small
stones laid with great regularity. About
eighty miles north are the ruins of Matin-
della, and here, as at Great Zimbabwe the
gateways are walled up as if to stand siege.
Was this land of gold the source whence Sol
ONION drew his gold of Ophir?
Mrs. A. J. Swami is the only white woman,
who ever made the journey from Sedani to
Ujiji. On the way their small caravan en-
countered band of Nasal warriors, 400
strong. At the sight of these ferocious look
ing fellows her bearers dropped her chair
and took to their heels, though afterwards
two, ashamed that a woman should be drawer
than they, returned. Mrs. Swami lived five
years on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Mr.. F. G. Selous, who has been called the
s'eyes and ears" of the Matabele campaign
and is one of the most encyclopedia explorers
of Africa, hunted elephants ten years in
Mashonaland, returned to England in 1881,
but soon returned to Africa, and has made it
his field of exploration ever since. When a
mere STRIPPING he crossed over into Loben-
gula's territory, and, with the boldness of the
English lad, appeared before that monarch
and requested permission to shoot elephants
and other large game. The monarch laughed
at him, and told him to go ahead, but soon
was astonished at his prowess and skill, as
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lions and other big game.
DR.. James Johnston crossed the continent
from Benguela on the west coast, to the
mouth of the Zambesi, on the east coast,
$500 miles, in twenty-one months, and made
close study of certain portions, besides
having to carry his point by sheer force of his
Winchesters.
The capture of Timbuctoo that mysterious
city. first visited by Laing in 1925, and who
was killed just after leaving it, has revealed
the truths told by Reve Caille and Barth,
though both were not believed at first. The
French have beaten the Tonaregs, those
desert banditti, which resemble our Apache
Indians. They captured the city, which has
decreased from 10000 population to less than
5000.
There are hundreds Of intelligent men who
are exploring, mapping, picturing, photo
graphing, describing and anaIyzing Africa.
The Dark Continent is under the glass, and
is being surveyed in microscopic manner.
The next fifty years, nay the next ten years,
will show such wondrous Improvements in
the continent as no nation has ever seen be-
fore. The only parallel to its expansion and
enlightenment will be that of the region west
OF the Mississippi, since the explorations of
Fremont, the pathfinder. AS fast as discov-
cries are made and new regions explored,
the intrepid missionaries are ready to ad-
vance and hold the field, and there are COM
mercial enterprises following hard after. The
light cast upon Africa to-day is in strange
contrast to the days when Livingstone was
shut up in the "outer darkness" of great
and unknown continent.
WRIT ARLAND.