Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-07-11
KIMBERLEY, SOUTH AFRI.
CA, TO MO. VALLEY, IA.

CA, TO MO. VALLEY, IA.
An Interesting Letter by A
j Laurie
The population here is about the
same as at Mazambique with one ex-
ception. there are plenty of Indians or
as we call them coolies. OF course
there is the katir population which
would out number all the others, but
they do not count because they are
all slaves Those that are not slaves
go about dressed like Nuns with the
exception that the part that covers the
face Is made of the same material that
the robe Is made Of, with holes cut in
to look out at.
There are great many novel sights
to be seen here but would take up too
much time and space to stop to enum.
crate them here, so will only tell of q
few of the important ones.
They have very good public gar
den for Zanzibar, but would not be
considered much outside of this part
of the world. There is one monster
lion in this garden and few other wllL
animals, q concert hall and band stand,
etc. There are no waterworks IN
Zansibar and the people get all the
water they use from one flowing well.
That Is only saw the one. 1t is q
great sight to see these people coming
for water which they carry in large
water vessels on top of their heads
judge the vessels would hold at least
from to Z gallons of water. 1t is a
sight to see them coming from all dir
ections like so many bees.
Zanzibar is an island and lies five
degrees south of the Equator and is
the warmest place on record, except
one; that one we will all take tickets
OH the other route to avoid, if possible.
think an ice cream parlor would do
Q arushing business if one could only
educate these heathens to understand
what ice is used for.
The town has an electric light plant,
and the Sultan's palace looks immense
from the bay. This is also very old
town and just as unhealthy as it is old
There is line of boats that run
from here to India, Australia and
New Zealand.
Thele is an abundance of fruit and
cocoanuts here. Oranges 100 for 24c,
bananas 36c. stalk, cocoanuts 3, a
and 5 cents each. The principal in.
dustry is spices of all kinds. Our boat
took on four or five hundred bales of
clover for European parts.
We went from Zanzibar back to q
place called Dar-es-Salam. This place
is in German East Africa, about fifty
miles from Zanzibar. This very
sickly place, and although German
territory, one would not think so by
the business people of the place, who
are mostly Indians. All the govern
ment positions, Of course, are held by
Germans. This, l was told is the old
est town iE Africa and l quite believe
1t, judging from the ancient appear
snce of the buildings and everything
else around the place. have never
seen anything like it only in pictures.
We stayed Ill this place about twenty
four hours. The town seems to be on
q boom but the people are too slow to
catch cold and too lazy to have the
rash. There were several buildings
under construction. They we're sup
posed to be brick buildings but bricks
in Dar-es-Salam are any shape but
square. Most of them are round,
about six inches in diameter. Some
are triangles, some are oval. The
buildings were quite extensive. One
looked like church, quite modern in
appearance. There were four men
placing the Jumps or bricks as they
call them. l presume they call them
selves brick layers. There we're about
100 hod carriers but the method of
carrying bricks in the stacks has not
come into use here yet The natives
carry the bricks one at time on top
of their heads and deposit them at the
bottom of the building where there
we're several Kafirs pulling them up
with ropes to the workmen above who
did not seem to be overly busy even
though there were about 100 hod
carriers.
This place, like Zsnzitar, is noted
for its fruit, spices, etc. There are
also plenty Of bsboons and monkeys.
One of the latter we bought for two
roupees, about Csc.
Our next place to stop at was 9
place called Tangs. about twelve hours
run from Zanzibar. This is q beauti-
full little place with plenty of nice
shade trees, and although closer to the
Equator by $50 miles, is cooler than
Zanzibar, but for all that the shade
trees are almost necessity. 1t was
here that we saw the most beautiful
mountain scenery that we have seen
In Africa. The population here Is
about the same as In Dar.es-S -Salam, but
few more whites according to the
population. Here civilization has
made Its first appearance In the shape
of q railroad which In time the CON-