The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-03-17
SEEN ey a BLACK MAN.
A Native Of Zanzibar in Eur0pe-H1s I'm
prcssions Told In u Book.


A Native Of zsnsibar In Europe-HIs I'm.
prcssions Told In u Book.
Amur bin Nasur bin Amur Ilomeiri
is native of Zanzibar of unusual in.
telligence, who was taken to Berlin
recently to help professor Of philol-
ogy there give instructions in the Ian.
guage of the Suaheli. He had not
been in the city long before he was
seized with the epidemic desire to
write book. He wrote it and pub.
lished it with the avowed purpose of
letting his people at home know what
great things he had seen since leaving
them. The professor translated the
book into German.
Amur prefaces his work with story
of his life, and then proc eeds to tell Of
the amazing things he saw on his way
to Germany and in the German capi.
tai. Alden, Sucz, Naples and Lisbon,
at which his ship touch ed, did not i'm.
press him deeply with their import.
ance, probably" says the commenta-
tors, 'because too much novelty at
once was beyond his comprehension" "
His experience at Amsterdam, how.
ever, struck terror to his heart.
~ went into the city," writes Amur,
and saw how the women took msn by
the arm and talked with them, and 1
thought: This city is surely the
dwelling place of the evil spirits; this
is the end of the world, and I, Amur,
will be lost forever So 1 went back
to the ship and lay down on my bed. !"
Although twenty-five years old, and
tried warrior of his native coast,
Amur went from fright to fright after
reaching Berlin.
''One day my teacher took me to the
land of the BEASTS" he writes of visit
to the Berlin geological garden. '"It
was garden, and saw in it lions and
gazclles and leopards, and the wild
horse (hippopotamus), and the ele-
phant, and giraffes and zebras and all
the beasts of the land and water, from
the big ones to the little ones, from
rats to snakes, from the little fishes to
the great ones. And as 1 saw them !
was amazed. There were hens and all
other birds, and every beast was in its
own house, and every hou Sc was as the
house of Said Ali, a hou Sc of wonders
(palace of the sultan of Zanzibar).
Then said to myself: is this para.
disc or this world" But 1 did not
speak. kept quite still. My friend
asked: is there anything like this in
Zanzibar?' answered.: %, yes, we
have things like this but in my heart
was afraid. would not tell my friend
lest he should say was afraid of the
beasts, for such beasts / had not seen
in my life"
Of the Urania Astronomical theater
Amur says: II saw there how the sun
set and was afraid. I wondered if il
was all real, and 1 asked my friend
tAre we in Berlin or are we on the sea?
we are in Berlin he answered.; why
do you ask, Amur" l told him that
only wished to know, but in my heart
1 was afraid; only did not wish him
to know my fear. Finally we went
away, and went home and lay awake
until morning, for could not sleep
Amur was not the least amazed BY
the splendor of the German beer sa
looms. 81 thought in my heart" he
writes of one saloon, eff the saloon
looks like this what must be the house
that the owner lives in! A house like
this, told my friend, had never seen
1t is as fine as the sultan's; yes finer
And said: Praise God, the Lord o.
the worlds'"
On the Tempelhof parade GROUND
Amur saw soldiers whose number he
estimated as two hundred thousand
He had not less exaggerated idea o.
| the number of spectators, which
seemed to him SO great that he wa.
convinced everybody had left the city
| "Yet, when he went back to the city,
he writes, sit was as if nobody had lef
it, and shook my head and tried tx
think how it came" The captive bal
loon, which he saw at the parade
Amur described as ''big .egg tina
climbed into the air."
Amur saw Bismarck. OF this meet
ing with the old chancellor at tn,
Stettin railway station he tells thi
story:
''He came in a covered wagon ant
the men cheered him, and he stuck ou
his head through the window ant
answered the cheers. When pushe,
to the front and greeted him h
thanked me, took flower from hi
hand and said: Take that. black man.
And took the rose. He was all white
even his eyebrows. was full of joy
and took the flower home with me an,
smelt of it, and kept it many days un
til threw it away"
Amurs tropical opinion of the Berlil
climate agrees with that of most civil
ized persons who have lived in the Ger
man capital:
I'm Berlin it is very cold. 1t is coll
six months and warm six. And as ia
as the heat is concerned, the cold i
much better. But when you feel YER
warm it is not best to throw away you
clothes, for then you will take cold il
your chest and be sick. In winte
things are like this: The water is a
hard as stone, and when rain falls
is like little stones; another kind q
rain is like chips from the inside of
cocoanut."-N. Y. Sun. iE u
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