Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-11-01

But with all Difference to the men who
made the maps, and the chrOmO-lithO-
graph men who color them, l doubt if
anybody in that village ever heard OF
the kingdon n OF Upper or Lower Man
dara, or knew that he lived under
king They lived a good deal as the
people Of Cranbeffy Center lived, before
there were canvassing committees for
the county, and when they had not
voters enough to send member to the
Legislature.
For me, had come up the Congo to
point-well, say sixty miles below
Houssa, when something happened to
the connecting rod of the steamer and
she was laid up for repairs fer twenty
four hours. ] was glad of the chance to
stretch my legs and TO try for game, and
started off as soon as the eng neer made
this report with my two boys, as they
were called, Philip AMI Mendi John.
Philip was of no great use but as an in
terpreter with the othe', who had o
great deal of good w0odcraft in him and
other working Capacity. We ha great
luck. as how could man fail to, going
through meadows and wood which never
saw an entomologist before? | had
bagged and chloroformed and stuck,
we'll twenty-five fine butterflies and
had left a dozen traps for moths, to be
examined when we came ba k next day.
We had lunched under a grove OF pep
per trees, when 1 saw what | afterwards
knew better, but what then | had never
seen-a magnificent specimen OF Vanes-
sa. larger than Frckhardts, and, as
supposed, rightly, wholly new. /
simply called to the boys that they were
not to leave the place, and started after
him.
A blessed tramp he led me, up hill
and down dale. Ho-! oh, how hot it
was! Bambocs here, pepper trees there,
plantans, bananas, palm trees-now In
the shade, now in the sun, and this
lovely, fattering, futtering futterer
ahead of me, with the wiles and wit OF
q Siren and an Dread combined. But |
was too much for him. After an hour l
had the splendid creature-there he is
now, framed and under glass, hanging
on the wall opposite where l write. |
slung my box on my back after L had
chloroformed and fixed him, and then
started back TO my men.
If had found them there would have
been no story. The truth was that my
handsome WOO nymph there, the Vanes-
sa. had bewitched the brooks and the
paths so that everything ran the wrong
way. Even the sun in the heavens,
when he shone at all, shone in the wrong
quarter Mo It of the time the sky was
overcast. so that the poor sun himself
could not shine at all. And how was L
10 know nv road there in the kingdom
of Msndara, Upper or Lower, if the sun
in the sky did not know his? l tramped
an tramped. had lost my own tracks
lone befere. At last 1 cane to pal
toIera hlv we'll beaten, and it brought me
ont-on The river in sight of the smoke
stacks of the Princess Beatrice? Not
bit of it. 1t brought me out on the
slope of q hill, on large banana patch,
with a village of sixty or seventy huts
just below me. .,1
there is no good i'll telling tales out OF
school. But will not say L was not,
for there is no good in lying. The sun,
wherever he was, VS. we'll near settlng.
For it was 6 by my watch. l could not
keep it much longer. SO L boldly went
down into the village.
Half a dozen little ours snapped at
me- inst as if had been in the village
Of the Yanktons, or in the Sahara. |
made nothing OF them, but passed on;
and then. meeting pleasant fellow, as
black as the knaVe Of clubs, with a
handsome. good-natured face, clad in a
long blue night-gown, made in a Man
chester print shop for bed curtain,
made a sa aam 10 him, in the best fashion
of Bel-el-dieree. And he, restraining
his laughter, made one in quite another
fashion to me. Then he advanced, and
boldly offered me his hand, as an
Englishman might have done, much to
my surpr SC. He said something also,
but knew not what; and l took pre-
cious coed care not to lisp a word Of
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