The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-17

where they were cared for and furnished
with guides and carriers, and thus en-
abled to reach civilization.
OF all this great number of people, Dr.
Holub says, the only ones who believe IN
an all-powerful. invisible God are the
Ma-Rutse. This God, they say, lives in
the blue sky, and is considered too
sacred to even name. They are held in
awe and respect of him by believing that
the spirits of the great chiefs go to
dwell with him, and are able to inter
cede for them in times of war and
danger.
Photographs in DIR. Holub's collection
show King Sepopo, of this tribe, partah-
ing or his evening meal supper was
given by the King, at which DR.. Holub
was guest. The left of the King is the
place OF honor, and was given to DR..
Holub. Three or four OF the twenty
seven queens of the king occupied places
to the right, with the commander of the
forces, Silymbe; the head executioner,
Mo-Shoku, and the physician, Liwa.
When everything was in readiness a
slave girl, one of the Ma-Shupia women,
appeared with the food. She first washed
her hands In the presence OF the COM
pany. and then served porridge made
OF yam roots and the meat, which was
game. cooked in way highly delectable
to the African palate, though scarcely
appreciated by the uncuitured European
The head men were first obliged to taste
of the food before it was given to the
King, proving that regicide is thing
not unknown even in the wilds of Africa.
The food was then pasesd to the guests
and the wives of the King and all others
assembled. and the meal ended with
beverage known as honey beer. The
whole ceremony of a dinner with King
Sepopo is simplicity ITSELF the chief
thing seeming to be the care that no
faithless subject or jealous queen has
put poison in his Majesty's viands.
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expedition included over 900 skulls of
large mammals. 514 skins of large spe-
cies of mammals, all mounted; 2,263 birds
and bird skins, 900 eggs, 220 fish, TOP mol
usks, 543 reptiles and about $4,000 other
specimens, representing the various de-
partments of zoology, about three
fourths of them insects. The collection
of the birds and insects was entirely the
work Of Mrs. Holub. She both shot and
prepared them for mounting. The COL
lection also included a vast number of
botanical, geological and archaeological
specimens, hundreds of sketches and
thirty-two diaries filled with accurate
notes on the work of the expedition.
This vast collection is being distrib-
uted by DR.. Holub among the museums
of the world, and it is his intention to
enrich those of this city with a. number
of specimens which will be valuable ad-
ditions and of inestimable assistance to
the Africanists and ethnologists of Phil
In 1896 DR.. Holub will make third ex-
petition and try again to explore the
country of the Ma-Shu-K alumbe. This
time, however, he will travel with a bet
ter equipment than before, and with the
assurance of protection as far as it lies
within the power of the European gov
ernments in their African provinces.
Not only will he endeavor to become
more thoroughly acquainted with the
upper Zambesi, but he will pay special
attention to the collection of all those
animals which, through the invasion of
white hunters, who slay for sport alone,
are rapidly becoming extinct. Among
these are the many kinds CT deer and
antelope, and those fur animals, the de-
mand for whose skins makes them the
target of thousands.
1t is also his intention to give closer
study to geology and to give to geogra-
ply an exact map Of those portions OF
the upper Zambesi that have hitherto
been but vaguely indicated. "a
DIR. Holub is still in the prime of life,
and the hardships of his eleven years
under the vigorous influence of the
South African sun seem to have left lit
tie or no trace upon his splendid consti-
tuition.