The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-09-06

hollow. you will see high land on
tour sides and looking out over the
country. | doubt if the eye can find
in one place one acre of perfectly
level ground. The three houses on
the station form a triangle: If |
want to go direct to Broadheads.
mus go down and up again a very
steep hill. yet to look across we are
-nnlN- short distance aparL- IL l 90
taround the triangle by way of Gray's
| can avoid the big hollow by going
up a lesser hill and down a similar
slope What are rivers here would
be runs at home, but in the wet sea
son they become quite swollen.
meant to say that further i'm land and
also along the coast further north
l the land is not so rough excepting
where mountains are found. One of
the stations has in sight mountains
| covered with snow the entire year.
| | can hardly realize that you are now
| eating new potatoes, green peas,
| string beans. etc, while We are hav-
| ing out winter But notwithstanding
the fact that this is mid-winter.
roses. geraniums, oleanders and
other flowers are blooming, and ba,
nanas, pine apples, lemons and other
fruits (the winter CROP are ripening
and have been ever since | came.
Our weather now is much like Octo-
Der at home, except that the sun IS
hotter in the middle of the day. The
nights are quite cold. We have very
little rain here in the winter, and
the roads are hard and smooth, and
the ground in general is quite hard
We had quite rain the day we land
ed and only one real rain since and
that did not make muddy roads. We
are hoping we will soon have a good
rain, as rain water is here our best
drinking water and our tanks are SO
near empty that we will soon be com
PEELED to use river water for cooking
as well as for other work. Rain
water does not get stale here as it
does at home, but on hot days l some
times think of the nice cold water
of Tionesta. However, we thank God
for the privilege of being here and
take these things as some of the "all
things" that are for our good. We
have from our own farm bananas.
pine apples. lemons, oragnes. and in
their season other fruit common to
America, and some never saw
there; and peanuts, sugar cane.
sweet potatoes, inferior, however. to
American beans; and have our own
chickens and eggs. We can get
canned meats and vegetables and
butter, brought in tin cans from
Australia, from Durham, but such
goods are very expensive. Butter
costs about fifty cents a pound. dried
beef nearly twice what II costs at
home, and most all other canned
goods five or ten cents more a pound
besides freight. Eggs are worth, the
year round, about fifty cents or sixty
cents a dozen. We can buy furni-
ture of Montgomery Ward & Co. and
pay freight and duty on II to Dur
ban and it is still cheaper than to
buy it at Durham. In this part of
Africa we have very little woods, ex-
cepting what is called bush, consist
ing of trees and brush in the hol-
lows, so do not have many large
animals. Monkeys are quite plenty.
This morning four of them came up
within few rods of the house. The
monkeys and some large birds are
all the animals of special interest ]
have seen. l have heard in number
of snake stories" which are true
but they are not so plenty in the
= winter, so | have not seen a living
snake since | came. But l will be
able to tell you more about snakes
ticks, mosquitoes. gnats, etc, wher
= summer comes.
The natives are not as dark as tn,
5 American negro, who were takeT
: from the west coast of Africa ant
the features of these here are NOR,
. like the European. They do not wor
ship idols as in India. and have q
their language words to express tn,
idea of God. The best word to ex
press the ida of Holy Spirit is "Oc
webileUmoya," meaning holy wine
g in their language. and the wor,
/, Umoya may also mean ghost. breath
r etc. Their language is much moor
o euphonic than the English and Il
Il many cases makes closer distinction
n as to shades of meaning. | am en-
t joying very much the study of tn
o language and talk a little in it.
a will not take time now to tell you o
r their native huts, Their superstitions
II games and beer drinks, and custom
:. as found where they are raw heather
e as all that would alone make a lei
h ter, or several of them, and you vii
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