The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-25

is causing opening of the boards like
| In ship after a storm" Occasionally
the wagon would get stuck-once for
eight hours. and IL took 40 bullocks to
| pull IL out again.
The bullocks had never been taught
to pull together, and one would lie
down and chew the cud while the 9TH
ers hauled. The days programme
rarely varied. Says Miss Balfour:
I'VE trek about o'clock in the
morning till about o'clock. AS the
road is usually pretty jolly, and, there
fore, not conducive to slumber, Mrs
Grey and / sleep on for another hour
after we stop, 1. e.. from to o'clock.
During this time the tent is put up,
and some water got, If possible, for
our baths. Meanwhile the men have
gone out shooting. We have breakfast
together on the veldt about half past
9 or 10 o'clock After that till about
half past o'clock is free. l sometimes
sketch, but l usually want to walk as
well; or / ought to be writing journal,
or washing clothes, or busting out the
wagon, or skinning birds. or darning
my stockings Especially the last); and
the time available is all too short. At
] o'clock we have a cup of cocoa and
a biscuit, and then pack up for an
other two hours trek. from 2 to 4
o'clock. One has to pack everything in
most carefully as otherwise II would be
either 1oltC to pieces or tossed out.
Wash ST lds, camp stools, ladder,
books. etc. are al located in our wagon
and have to be taken out and in at each
trek,
After five weeks of this sort of life
the party reached Buluwayo. the for
mer capital of Matabeleland. and resi-
dence of King Lobengula. Dr. Jane
son. who has lately played so impart-
ant part in South African affairs,
lived here, and gave hearty and hos
pitable welcome to the travellers. Miss
Balfour thus describes his house:
1T has mud walls, mud floor
matched roof with no ceiling, doors
made of two packing case lids. and an
unglazed window with shutters of
rough boards Furniture: bedstead,
one box upside down, some wooden
shelves, a small strip of mating, an
empty whiskey bottle doing duty as
a candlestick and ooh, luxury a table.
DR.. Jameson's room, occupied by Mrs.
Grey. is much the same, only it has a
siX-inch square looking glass as well:
and for the first time for five weeks
she has been able to look at her back
hair"
In September the travellers reached
Zanzibar and made a few days stop
ait the German headquarters, Dar-es-
Salaam. The town was founded only |
growth. Two things which
impressed her were the inordinate and
habit of liquor drinking and
the number of convicts and criminals |
1T was shock to our English ideas"
she says, "to see numbers of native |
women working on the roads and being |
driven to their work by white man |
a large rawhide whip. 1 be- |
came daily more astonished at the |
number of convicts or prisoners. |
Everywhere you came upon gangs of |
four to eight-often women-chained |
by the necks and bounded |
along by a black policeman or soldier. |
| should think there were fewer pris-
oners in all the Chartered company's
territories than in this one little |
town." Miss Balfour closes the story |
Of her journey with this half humor-
Ous wall:
Five months in the country without
seeing either lion. crocodile or hippo
potamus. What has been the use of
coming to Africa?"