Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-03-13

rsext snring.
am now on tie odRo Of civilization
about 70 plunge into the depths Of th'
Al lean forest. Ihese ire the last word
shall serd before I disappear. Whers
ed whan ! snslll como ont I do u0
.fuDw
lam now writing at Ambrizette, An
Rola. and It is the 1853 Of October. II i,
unlikely thar anything viii be heard
from ira Tor some months. It ii, CT
COARSE fGss.b.e that may never again
3oacn eivil safioii. ard that this mann
scrsqa wiz as ray last
E3ut II sny sourney liz as successful aa
s-t1sthe it So te it viii be surprising in
It's rrsalts and rapid ia execution. I in
te11 now 70 strike out for the BoIumbo
ssaan4vy and into tho interior Of darkest
Asxaas
Hero ! phall again resume my expert
saent with tho native goriilas and
hope 10 complete the alphabet Of the ma
tive language of the ape which was
compelled 20 abandon during NY first
visit hero year ago.
/ hope 70 cross Lsyria 70 tho Rembc
Miami aud via Fernan Vaz lake into the
Lake lzanga country. where I shall
make for the coast. no time can be
stated for this hazardous journey, ga
most Of it ia afoot or by canoe. But
hope 70 DO back ia New York early in
the new year, OF, Mt any rate before the
summer II we'll advanced
ana well equipped for this journey
and for my experiments,
Ny previous experience in Africa will
be Of the utmost value
My knowledge Of the country and Of
she native lauRaaRes has already beep
IL the greatest assistance
Standing here on the brink whore civ
iIiza,ion aud barharism meet, am CON
fidens that The journey which - before
mowill bring them both closer together
am bringing some Of the finest mo-
ohanioal productions o. civilization into
tho heart Of the Jungle 1 shah bring
ont Of the primevai forest specimens
bearing on aushropologY and testimony
to tho antiquity 81 language that Will
DO absolutely new.
There are things IN this African jun
gle which eoiaes down here 60 whore !
stand that bear directly 90 the history
81 cur race ana speech Here ara found
races that have not advanced la 10 000
years. races that seem indeed newer 10
have advanced end to occupy today y
lower place Ia the social scale than
mng animals
I ao n0t doubt that there arc members
~ the monkoy family possessing a
higher intelligence and greater fuonoy
u lansuago than many natives of Afri-
~. whom they SO closely resemble /
Iaye known uf the Same words hging
ssed Co express Che same things IN tao
language 81 both. These arc Some Of the
'aets my present journey will throw
lght uron.
an leading now for Tho greatest
noiisey country III tho world. the great
aiginal breeding place If our raeo, rs
ioma believe. iiefo arc 20 be found
secs Of nen tho like of which can be
'oen nowhere else on earth.
Here tire to be found men SO peculiar
hat hundreds q thousands, IL not mix
suus, q years must haye elapsed since
aay Sganchea cig from the rest 81 the
seas human family. They arc today
other the sole remaining specimens of
vimoval man or man who have slowly
y interhreeding developed unique idio-
gnatasiea which differentiated them
rom all Others.
III ibis great African Jungle which I
30 light OF civilization has mover pena~
-ated, where tine has stood stiI,
fhieh ID today identical with what it
ias 10000 years ago, an animal civili-
atioa has sprung up that has advanced
uiokar than tho civilization Of it's hui
ian inhabitants, The skull Of monkeys i
/ this great heart 81 Africa has grown 1
sster than tho skull as mon. h
Here are found the largest monkeys /
81 the smallest men. Not Tar FROM y
hero ! ana sitting tonight writing 90 !
hu Sunday World fhe chimpansaes hnyo
Nsieal Instruments around which they =
1ld 8 dance while thVra ayo tribes % !.
wages SO low and brutal as never TO 4
aye invented 4 nasioal instrument q
MoalSy Tribes, gogilla tribes ana d
ismasnaaa tribes ago organised They
we leaders and governors. They seem
havo 8 rude syEten Of government ot
"a forest Y
Each appears 20 have q special ooun v
Y q ifs own into which the cthera {,
rely penetrate, They have mysterious h
lls, periodical conventions ana regular Is
nae for joyful gatherings
ibis y tae greatest place for scientific
curry cn eersa-~6Tss, because il ~ the
ASA sSaewn field o. humsn occupancy, vt
q eccDdly, because ID has been whol v