Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-13

would let them have homesteads on
presumption terms, and pet them In
every possible way-just TO spite John
Bull.
BERRIES IN ABUNDANCE.
Berries, too. must be pretty abundant
on the great divide OF the Mediterran-
can and the Sand Sea. In 1894 Colonel
Duchabel, Of the military surveying
expedition, was taken sick at Wad-el-
Kamr, on the north side slope OF the
Atlas, and at the advice of his doc
tor, sent out few scouts TO interview
the hill shepherds and offer 10 coppers
a quart for any kind OF edible berries.
The result surprised him. Men, wo-
men and children began 10 trudge up
the approaches of the surveyors camp.
and before he could countermand his
offer had brought raspberries enough
to run a first class canning factory.
They had strawberries, too, and some
novel varieties OF strawberries, and In
reply TO inquiries stated that there
were other kinds, but growing on trees
and not so easy to get at.
There, too, flourishes the algaroba, a
species Of locust with edible pods, about
as nourishing as string beans. The
crop hardly ever fails and In protracted
droughts has saved many wanderer
of the wilderness. including John the
Baptist, whose staple diet Of honey
and locusts," according TO Richard Bur-
ton had nothing to do with grasshop-
pers. A Yuma Indian might stick TO
the elder Interpretation. but II Is q sig
nifcant act that In several European
languages the pods Of the algaroba are
known as est. Johns Bread"
Great chunks OF reslnous pine wood
are found in the gullies of the upper
Sierras, and are sometimes loaded on
donkeys and hauled TO the markets OF
the coast towns like charcoal from the
woods OF the Apennines. II would not
be difficult TO keep the pots boiling In
q country of that sort, and the abund.
ance OF game could almost reconcile
the Afrikanders to the loss OF their
veldts. Antelopes are not as numerous
as in the Orange River mountains, but
there are countless coneys. squirrels,
black cocks, badgers, pigeons, and a
few deer and wild goats. A variety OF
ibex still haunts the rocky highlands,
and on the border OF Tunis there are
small herds OF the curious creature
known as the bubalus or bubalis, that
seems TO form connecting link be-
tween the steer and the stag. Becker
el-Wash. wild OK" the Arab calls II,
and often hunt 1t at the time OF the
year when the herds are incumbered
with helpless fawns, but are afraid 10
domesticate II. as grown-up specimens,
no matter how tame. are apt TO yield
TO roaming instinct and lead black
cattle astray.
PRACTICALLY SOUTHERN EU-
ROPE.
Prof. Brehm's objection to southern
Africa as permanent home was that
II seemed too much like living out OF
the world; settlers In the mountains OF
the Moon might as well remove TO the
moon itself. and be done" But Algeria
has become almost part OF southern
Europe. The capital (Algiers) Is only
trine further south than Cincinnati,
and can be reached from Minorca In
ten hours: from Marseilles In day
and half. Settlers would remain In
touch with civilization, and, Europe
would object TO see butchery going on
at her door.
To outbid all those advantages the
Hollanders urge the inexhaustible re-
sources OF their colonies on the west
coast Of sumatra.