The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-31
A MAN FROM ZANZIBAR.
He Has Written Book of the Won
derfuI Things He Saw.

Amur bin Nasur bin Amur Ilomeiri is
a native Zanzibarite of unusual intelli-
gence who was taken to Berlin recently
to help a professor of philology there
give instruction in the language of the
Suaheli. He had not been in the city
| long before he was seized with the cpl
demic desire to write a book. He wrote
| 1t and published it with the avowed pur-
pose of letting his people at home know
what great things he had seen since leav-
ing them. His professor translated his
book into German.
Amur prefaces his work with story of
his life, and then proceeds to tell of the
amusing things he saw on his way to
Germany and in the German capital.
Alden, Suez, Naples and Lisbon, at which
his ship touched, did not impress him
deeply with their Importance, probably"
says the commentator, because too much
novelty at once was beyond his compre-
hension." His experience at Amsterdam.
however, struck terror to his heart. Il
went into the city, wrote Amur,
"and saw women took men by the arm
and talked with them, and | thought,
This city is surely the dwelling place of
the evil spirits; this is the end of the
world, and 1, Amur, will be lost forever
So | went back to the ship and lay down
on my bed"
Although % years old, and a tried var
rior on his native coast, Amur went from
"One day my teacher took me to the land
of the beasts - he writes of visit to
the Berlin Geological garden. 1T was
garden, and l saw in it lions and gaZelles,
and leopards and the wild horse Cbippo-
potamus), and the elephant, 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 big ones. And as l saw
them 1 was amazed. There were hens
and all other birds, and every beast was
in it's own house, and every house was at
the house of Said Ali, house of wonders
Gpalace of the sultan of Zanzibar)., Then
this world?' But 1 did not speak. 1
kept very still. Ny friend asked: Is
there anything like this in Zanzibar? 1
ths but in YES e Was tnf frad lkf
would not tell my friend lest ne should
say was afraid of the beasts for such
beasts | had not seen in my life"
Amur says: II saw there how the
sun set and was afraid. wondered if
it was all real, and L asked my friend
We are in Berlin he answered.; why do
you ask, Amur? I told him that l only
wished to know, but in my heart 1 was
afraid only did not wish him to know
of my. fear Finally we went away, and
went home and lay. awake until morn
ing, for 1 could not sleep"
splendor of the Berlin beer saloons. II
thought in my heart ne writes of one
saloon. eff the saloon looks like this, what
in A house like this, I told my friend.
had never seen. 1t is as fine as the sui
tans; yes. finer. And l said Praise to
God, the Lord of the worlds
On the TempelhOf parade ground Amur
saw soldiers whose numbers he estimated
as 100000. He had a not less exaggerated
Idea of the number of spectators, which
seemed to him so great that he became
convinced everybody had left the city.
''Yet when we went back to the CITY,"
he writes, at was as if nobody had left
it, and l shook my head and tried to think
how it came" The captive balloon, which
he saw at the parade, Amur described as
a big egg that climbed into the air"
Amur saw Bismarck. OF his meeting
with the old chancellor at the Stettin rail-
way station he tells this story:
''He came in covered wagon, and the
men cheered him, and he stuck his head
through the window and answered the
cheers. When 1 pushed to the front and
flower from his hand ard said: Take
that, black man. And took the rose.
He is all white, even his. eyebrows. I
was full of Joy, and took the flower
home with me and smelt of it, and kept
it many days until I threw it away"
An1ur'S tropical opinion of the Berlin
climate agrees with that of most civilized
persons who have lived in the German
I'm Berlin it is very cold. Ii is cold
six months and warm six. And as far as
the heat is concerned, the cold is much
better. But when you feel very warm it
is not best to throw away your clothes
for then you will take cold in your chest
and will be sick. In winter things are
stone. and when rain falls it is like lit
tie stones; another kind of rain is like
chips from the inside of a coacoanut.-
New York Sun.