The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-03
MOoRE's WONDERFUL STORY.
IL is Proved by a Piece of Seaweed
Picked Up Where PharOah's Army
Got Wet.

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From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
William B. Walker. a gentleman who
moved from the Mississippi valley last
fail to settle in Seattle, and has offices in
the Bailey building, told story yesterday
of an acquaintance of his whose exper-
fences in South Africa are of a rather
romantic character. Early in the SOS
Henry Moore lived near Corinth, Miss,
and was shiftless sort of fellow. he
gathered courage enough to shirt from
there, however, ana climbing on the i ENC
baggage to Denver. He spent some time
in Colorado, then drifted to the Arizona
gold fields, lounged in the everlasting sun
shine of Mexico for a while, and one day
found himself at Galveston. There he
drifted on board a sailing ship, and the
ship drifted him TO the eastern coast Of
Africa.
Here he found there was gold to be
had without the digging. When the ship
got to Liverpool he spent all his wages in
trinkets and worked his way back to At
RIGA on another ship. His exploits from
the time he landed the second time throw
those of Livingstone and Stanley entirely
in the shade. For they went armed with
a retinue of followers, with baggage
wagons and tents, commissary depart
ment and cooks. All alone, with as big
a pack as he could carry, he started from
the east coast in direct line for the west.
1t was something over year before he
was again seen by one of his race or
heard MS native tongue. ne SOl DdCh "
the coast, but was not carrying his pack.
He had a string of camels and donkeys
to carry it, and it had grown TO goodly
size. There were ivory tusks IN II, ana
igold nuggets and precious stones and
curious things never seen before. All by
himself he had gone nearly thousand
miles into the interior and bin dom
right smart O. tradin with the coons,
he modestly said.
Meet any savages?' he was asked.
MOSTLY all savages," was the quiet re-
aAnd cannibalsY'
yes, they is most all cannibals, but
nary one NV EN- ever eat me, an I'm
here to prove it."
to Cornith, some time later. What he did
when he got his goods to the coast was to
get them and himself onto a ship, and al
Liverpool he disposed OF them. With
small part of the money he invested in
a still larger pack, and again went into
the wilds of Africa, but this time with
donkeys and camels and native servants.
He passed through Mashonaland and to
the northward. He carried many bum
dies of matches, and when he deftly and
swiftly swung his right hand upward past
his thigh and fire was the result, the
native were ready to worship the fire
maker. He also took a few firearms.
When he came to a larger village on the
morning of festival he had the ruler In
formed that he could kill a man and no
body would know what had struck him.
The king was curious about this, and or
experimental upon. Moore said his ma
chine would work just as well on a COW,
and an animal intended for slaughter
was placed 800 yards away, which dropped
dead when struck by Moore's bullet.
Moore says he could have had a bigger
piece of land than the whole state of MIS-
sissippi and its live stock thrown in for
that rifle, but he could only bargain for
things that he could CARR away with him.
some time after that, however, he did re-
ceiye a donation of land about seventy
miles square from one of these. African
kings in the interior, and sold a half in
terest- init to an English syndicate for
nearly 81, 900, 600
Moore got back TO Corlnth in 1887, and
has been going and coming between At
RIGA and this country ever since. When
Chattanooga had land boom he went
there and asked the price of a large tract.
The price was $4,000. But how much
cash 9'' asked Moore. He bargained it
amount on San Francisco bank The
land dealer laughed at it, but on a tele-
gram being sent to San Francisco, the
bank on which the check was drawn re-
plied: Moore good for S250,000."
Moore has $500, 900 in government bonds
and large accounts with several banks
He is not married. and his family connec-
tions are all poor people. That IS, they
were all poor before he returned. He has
sent his brothers two daughters to a
Fashionable boarding school, and given
each a bank account of $4,000 He has
also taken his brothers. boy and sent him
to school To the rest of his family and
intimate friends he has also been liberal
Walker, "a piece of seaweed that Moore
brought from the Red Sea, picked up near
the spot where Pharaoh's army tried to
This proves the wonderful romance to
be perfectly true.