New-York tribune., 1902-03-30

midst in the Businesses of the Matapo Hins. where
dangerous for whites and told them that the
formal surrender which they were being called
When in his absence his country house Groet-
lecting, was burned somebody went to Mr.. Rhodes
70 break the news gently, and, after circumlocu-
:. :. & I have some bad news for you
'Groetschnur and all your valuable collection
of curious have been destroyed by fire.
you We're going to teii me that pr. Jameson is
suit of tTo,Ibles Rhodes brougRt on him ''7
-1r. Rhodes Is very hospitabe. But for A NUM-
ent ps6 ot that he did @ once @ People Who had no claim
whatever upon him took a&vantage Of the privilege,
he made some restrictions. He has no wife; and
her brothers absence When he is at home he
prefers her not to NJ! the house & up with women
his hospitality. He had during the rlnGerpeste
who had lost their cattle by this terrible plague,
telling them EN- to to FtPafe ] {her t beasts S nen If tnfy @
DIT Thompson said he reheeted the common faith
land) in believing that Mr. Rhodes would get his
if he did not finish it somebody else would The
of Africa's development said Dr.. Thompson who
in his ten years residence in the Dark Sentiment.
orTnegag yeT he eFpaned are broken with falls
GUS so that ttese streams do not furnish con
Rhodes's railroad from Cape to Cairo is built. and
branch lines connect with the coast, Africa Will
make up rapidly her lost centuries Of progress.
IN OF treks wife and / were two
weeks traversing hundred and fifty miles, and
we thought that extraordinary speed. 1t was
through district where even natives rarely
seen. and slept at night with lions roaring and
hyenas bowling around US. II took thlrty-six oxen
load Of half ton. A span, eighteen oxen. Is
the usual team. but AT the hills we doubled H. We
walked up the hills. would not have been al
lowed TO ride because II was too dangerous The
amount a howling required to get those oxen 10
the top Of a hill is something not to be forgotten
Four drivers cracking their whips and yelling at
the tops Of their voices make noise beside
which an Indian warwhoop is tame affair
The Prospecting tour which DR.. Thompson and
Mr. wilcox made after leaving Mr.. Rhodes when
the antelope breakfast finished comprised over
five hundred miles OF trampins, occupying some
mission Dr. Thomson Che Is a physiclanD IN pay
inc professional calls, often had to walk fifteen 70
where grass ten feet high meets overhead. some
times dripping Besides the natives, many
white settlers who ha We located IN that region re e.
1894 brought donkevs pigs and cows along, and
their coming seemed to have begun for the time
being at least season Of milk ana money Inc
pioneers We're having n hard struggle then sub
houses with only unframed Zulu help. Now. they
tries to the blacks The first brick house in GAIA
land, n one room affair. was erected on this mis-
sion site by Mr.. Wilder an American
OF this principnlity that Cecil Rhodes gave to
the American Board which now holds the lands
Dennis BoyIe. an FnF!sh eXplorSr SAID; ats at
beauty is difficult 70 describe ana me eminent NJ
ness for agriculture of hundreds Of miles around
the old kraal can hardly be overestmated.' II Is
eor1e FIVE thousand feet above sea level wel
wooded well watered plateau. known geogranhi-
caIlv as Mount Se'inda and = Is not far from Mel
setter In snite Of its great elevation the place is
to recuperate from be ravages Of African fever
He sailed three months ago and IS proha bly, at
a. his tenants neighbors and students on the land
given to the American Board by Cecil Rhodes-