St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-20

sented to the king by Europeans in
GLIDING everything from pillow cases
and starched shirts to bits of brass and
iron. No effort is made to keep this
room clean or preserve the contents
| from the invasion of rats and mice.
AT supper the king sits as here rep
resented, while on his left the place of
| honor was given to DR.. Holub during
i his visit. Three or four of the twenty
| seven queens occupied the places to the
right together with the commander of
| the forces, Silymbe; the head execu-
toner, Mo-Shoku, and Liwa, the ply
sician. When everything is ready a
! slave girl, one of the a-Shupia women,
appears with the food Her first duty
| is to wash her hands in the presence of
, the company and then serve the por-
ridge made of yam roots, and the meat,
| which may be wild fowl, beef, venison,
or any Of the delectable morsels known
to the African mind. The head men are
first obliged to taste the food before it
is passed to the king, to assure his ma
, jesty that no faithless subject has de-
signs upon his life. Afterwards the
food was passed to the guests and to
the wives of the king, and all the 9TH
ers assembled. This course is usually
followed by a beverage known as honey
beer. The ceremony is extremely SIM
pie, the chief care of the king being to
see that he is not poisoned
Besides these extensive studies of
fourteen tribes, with their various arts
and customs, DR.. Holub made thou
sands of meteorological observations,
studies of new plants for the use of the
mater1a medica, and the exploration of
large unknown territories along the
Zambezi. Four large volumes contain
the history and results of his work. He
has devoted another large book to
o1nithology, and his reports and papers
are numerous.
DR.. Holub'S collections on the sec
end expedition included over 900 skulls
OF large mammals, 514 skins of large
species of mammals, all set up; 1854
birds and bird skins, 900 eggs, 22O fish,
7O2 mollusks, 543 reptiles, and about |
$4,000 other specimens, representing |
various departments of zoology, about |
three-fourths of them insects. In i
botany the explorer took volumes of |
notes and collected 742 specimens of |
algae, 5000 plants in the herbarium,
~" 'PNSiiiOAo VI II ullS, SeGuS, DulDS, |
ETC.. and 200 specimens of different |
woods. In paleontology he collected
TT specimens of fossil reptiles fishes
and plants, taken from the Trias beds
of northeast Cape Colony Over 500
specimens of minerals and rock for
nations illustrate the geology of the
regions he visited. Many hundreds of
sketches were made of specimens
which DR.. Holub was not able to add
to his collection, and thirty-two diaries
were filled with copious notes on the
work Of the expedition.
Some time ago DR.. Holub addressed
the National Geographic society at
Washington, and he has since been
invited by the leading men at the cap
ital to return there and lecture before |
the general public. In the meantime
he is making engagements to deliver
addresses before prominent societies
throughout the West, and is receiving
everywhere a warm reception from
and naturalists, who look
upon him as one of the most con-
spicuous scientific travellers of the age.
Aside from his great achievements he
people by his genial, cordial
and courteous manner and every
where he would stand as a leader of
men. Eleven years of peril and hard
ship in the wilds of Africa seem to
have left no trace upon him, and he
is still in the prime of life.