Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-14
A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY.
Explorer Cherry Found It In Central
Africa, the Only Drawback Bein.
TINT II Is PeOpIed by CnnmibaI..

Chicago, March William Stamps
Cherry, the African explorer who re-
Gently returned to this country. last
night with the aid of a stereopticcn
entertained the members of the Chi
cago Press club He made public
for the first time many of his discov-
cries and spoke interestingly of his
many adventures in central Africa.
Mr.. Cherry told of his exploration
of the immense kotto region, and the
finding of three new native tribes
An this hitherto inaccessible country,
and of his discoveries in natural his
tory, including two new species OF
antelope and one of small elephants
having no tusks.. He gave a graphic
description of his life among the diff
ferent cannibal tribes and said his
studies of their arts and customs to
the minutest details will answer
many questions regarding their past
history and present life.
He also spoke of the Importance
| of impressing upon the American
| people the great future of this inn
| mense unknown country, which in
spots is entirely uninha bited, but
abounds in wonderful resources. On
| this latter subject Mr.. Cherry said:
81 have found wild coffee that is pro-
| nounced first class in flavor and
| which can be gathered by tons; also
| a wild vanilla and a species of wild
olive. The forests are immense and
represent the finest timber in the
world. They are full of unknown
| nuts and wild fruits, peculiar in
shape and flavor, but many of them
pleasant to the taste, and which will
| become well known and useful in
| civilized countries.
Most of the land over which l
travelled is very fertile and is watered
| by creeks and rivers so numerous
that it is unnecessary to carry water
for drinking purposes. The banks
of the rivers and creeks are generally
fringed by heavy wood. The rubber
vine grows here in it's greatest luxu-
rance Bananas, pineapples, oranges,
lemons and all tropical fruits grow in
| such abundance that there is little
| use for a native to work more than
an hour a day. Rice, corn, sweet
potatoes and peanuts are some of the
foods that are frequently found and
which grow like weeds with but little
attention; the manioc and yam and
|
and grains, unknown to the people
of the temperate zone, grow there
abundantly. Tobacco and sugar cane
flourish as in their native soil.
THE geographical position is the
| finest of any country and the rail
roads of the future will open up this
vast region to commerce and immi-
| grafton and | look forward to the
time when the cities of Africa situ-
ated on the banks of some of these
| beautiful rivers with their myriads
of islands and cataracts will be the
most picturesque in the world"
Mr.. Cherry spoke of sla' trading,
| saying that the general impression
was that it had been partially done
away with, but when he reached the
| interior he found the curse fully as
| bad as in the days when Livingston
| journeyed through Africa. Mr.. Cherry
| found whole regions depopulated by
| the slave traders, and when he ar
| rived at the Kotto river the country
had just been raided by an Arab
chief, who dia his work in such a
| thorough manner that whole tribe
was annihiIated