The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-13
SEEN BY A BLACK MAN.

Native Of Zanzibar In Europo-Hfo In
pressions Tsld ia . Book.
Amur bin Nasur bin Amur nomeiri
is native of Zanzibar of unusual in
telligence, who was taken to Berlin
recently to help professor of philoi-
Dgy 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
ished 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 proceeds to tell OF
the amazing things he saw on his way
to Germany and in the German capi-
tai Alden, Suez, 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
81 went into the city" writes Amur.
''and saw how the 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 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 a visit
to the Berlin geological garden. 1T
was garden, and l saw in it lions and
gazelles, and leopards, and the wild
horse (hippopotamus). and the ele-
phant, and giraffes and zebras, and all
the beasts of the land ana water, from
the big ones to the little ones, from
rats to snak es, from the little fishes to
the great ones. And as l 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, hou Sc of wonders
(palace of the sultan of Zanzibar).
Then said to myself: is this para
disc or this world?' But l did not
speak. kept quite still. My friend
asked: SIS there anything like this in
Zanzibar? 1 answered.: o, yes, we
have things like this, but in my heart
] was afraid. would not tell my friend
lest he should say l was afraid of the
beasts, for such beasts l had not seen
in my life
OF the Urania Astronomical theater
Amur says: 81 saw there how the sun
set and was afraid. l wondered if it
was all real, and / asked my friend:
'Are we in Berlin or are we on the sea-?
we are in Berlin he answered; why
do YOU ask, Amur? / told him that l
only wished to know, but in my heart
/ was afraid; only did not wish him
to know my fear. Finally we went
away, and went home and lay awake
until morning, for l could not sleep"
Amur was not the least amazed by
the splendor of the German beer sa-
looms. II thought in my heart" he
writes of one saloon, ''if the saloon
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 Of
the worlds.
On the Tempelhof parade ground
Amur saw soldiers whose number he
estimated as two hundred thousand.
He had not less exaggerated idea OF
the number of spectators, which
convinced erybOdy had left the city.
"Yet, when he went back to the city,"
he writes. lit was as if nobody had left
it, and shook my head and tried to
think how it came" The captive bal
loon, which he saw at the parade,
Amur described as a big egg that
climbed into the air"
Amur saw Bismarck. Of this meet
ing with the old chancellor at the
Stettin railway station he tells this
story:
He came in . covered wagon and
the men cheered him, and he stuck out
his head through the window and
answered the cheers. When l pushed
to the front and greeted him he
thanked me, took flower from his
hand and said: Take that. black man.
And took the rose. He was all white,
even his eyebrows. 1 was full of joy,
and took the flower home with me and
smelt of it, and kept it many days un'
til threw it away.
Amur's tropical opinion of the Berlin
climate agrees with that of most civil
lied persons who have lived in the Ger.
man capital:
I'm Berlin it is very cold. 1t is cold
six months and warm six. And as far
as the heat is concerned, the cold i.
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 be sick. In winter
| things are like this: Tie water is as
hard as stone, and when rain falls il
| is like little stones: another kind OF
rain is like chips from the inside of q
! cocoanut"-N. Y. Sun