The colored American., 1902-03-15

Sheep are not affected by the fly, excel
lent mutton being raised in the colony,
and its bite upon human beings does not
seem to produce any i'll effects unless it
may be that it helps to carry the malaria
that prevails in that climate, and of this
there is no proof, since the country
aboundS in mosquitoes, who are under
conviction at present as the chief malaria
carriers.
AS Mr.. Galloway wished to make
study of the tzetZe fly, he offered the
natives copper each tor every specl-
men they would bring him. In an as
itonishingly short space of time he was
supplied with sixty specimens, and as so
many other natives were reported to be
preparing to engage in this-tO them-as-
Itonishingly profitable occupation, he was
Iobliged to withdraw his offer. A cop
per-" is equivalent to a cent and quar-
ter in American money. Several of the
natives were bitten by the flies while
they were bringing them to him, but ap-
parently with no bad effect.
| Along with a quantity of cotton seed,
a gin, farming tools and such supplies,
the four men had taken out with them
/ two lumber wagons, one OF them made
in the wheelwrighting shop at Tuskegee
| Institute. A party OF natives having
been secured for them, the Americans
proposed that the natives put the other
goods in the wagons and then draw the
wagons, but to this the natives de
INJURED. They had never seen such We
hicles before, and they were afraid they
would get away from them and run over
them. They offered to carry the wagons
in on their heads, though, but draw them
they would not The matter was finally
fnlr Ill Nlxa
other goods on their heads, and the
wagons being left until the horses came
out later. The three young men walked.
Mr. Galloway was carried in hammock
slung to a pole fastened to two boards
which rested on the heads of four ma
lives. Some who read this may remem-
Der seeing the man who was in COM
ClarG of the Dahomey village on the
Midway Plaisance at the Worlds Fair
| 1t Chicago, being carried about III this
same way. AS proof of the willing
ness of the natives to learn, however.
Mr.. Galloway stated that after they had
become accustomed to the wagons they
did not hesitate to draw them, and when
he came back to the coast he was drawn
in a two-wheeled cart by natives. The
| trip of sixty miles was made in four
days, with all the freight that the party
mad carried on the neaQS OF the men.
Arrived at the place where the plan
tation was to be located, one hundred
aces of ground were selected. This,
like nearly all the ground there, was
covered with stout grass in some places
as many as twenty feet high. A field of
this much resembles what in the South
is called cane thicket. The grass was
burned and the entire space dup up with
stout spades. Men dug up the ground
and women and children knocked the
dirt out of the grass roots and piled the
roots up to be burned A great part of
the work in the native fields is done by
the women. The chief native crops are
cotton and yams, both usually planted in
the same field.
fve-rOOm mud house was built for the
w-comers, and in this they have lived
ever since. They sleep on low beds made
by stretching canvas over posts driven
into the ground. The natives are will
ling to work, considering that they have
never been used TO steady labor, and
that mere existence is so easy in that
climate They are docile and pleasant to
get along with. Among themselves they
are apt to have good many pretty dis
putes, and are fond of going to law with
them. This process meant, in serious
cases, appealing to the German officials
but they liked to bring many minor diff
ferences to Mr.. Galloway, as Judge, TO
decide, One rather common case would
ha that of man whose wife had left