The colored American., 1902-03-15

n. Galloway, the Tuskegee teacher of
agriculture, who year and half ago
went with three of the graduates of
Tuskegee Industrial Institute to the
German colony of Togo, in West Africa,
TO teach cotton raising to the natives
there has returned to his home in TuS
kegee for a months vacation. The three
Young men who went with him remain
in Africa Mr.. Galloway expects to re-
turn the last of March, and wishes to
take back with him limited number of
young Negro men who understand prac
teal modern agriculture-more especial
" the cultivation of cotton-whO can be
located among the natives as model
farmers.
This is not in any sense an emigration
scheme, all these persons having been
hired by the German Colonial Economic
Society to work at a salary. This is a
society made up of two thousand of the
leading titled personageS and most
prominent men in Germany to expert
ment in the possibilities of developing
the German colonies. They work in
close cooperation with the German gov
eminent
Mr.. Galloway is able to tell many in
teresting things about this part of AT
rica, and to give much valuable inform
tion about it. 1t was in this part of the
continent that the slave trade flOuriShed
most vigorously, and the ancestors of
most of the Negroes now in the United
States came from there or near there
In the case of the original party of four
men who went out from TuSkegee a
year and half ago, it is known that
two of them are descendants of slaves
brought from there, and this is probably
true OF all of them. Oddly enough the
first place where the boat stopped so that
Mr.. Galloway and his associates could
go ashore was at a little Portuguese set
tlement that had been a center of the
slave trade, and port from which ships
were loaded. The town is still surround
ed by high brick wall, and the gates
OF this are securely shut every night even
yet, on account, it was supposed. of the
hard feeling which the natives still have
Tor the Portuguese on account of their
participation in the trade
LONE, the first German town at which
the steamer stopped, and the seaport of
the colony, is flourishing German town,
with broad streets. Most of the houses
are of mud, built by setting up poles in
the ground weaving palm branches back
and forth between the poles, and then
plaSterlng the whole with mud. The
roofs are of grass, because that is not
only cheaper but cooler than iron or
wood. The source from which the mud
Tor making the walls is obtained is pc
cdIldr While the steamer was coasting
along near the shore, the men saw what
at FIRST they thought to be a field of
shocks of corn. Closer inspection show
ed though, that what they had taken
lor the shocks were ant hills, with which
mat country abOunds. These ant hills
are built of clay, and in the process of
building, the insects work the clay over
until 1t IS very fine and easily glued to-
gether. The natives take advantage of
ms preparation. When they want to
6nnd house they break down an ant
hiii' and pulveriZing and moistening the
cay OF which the walls were composed,
use It tor walls of their own houses.
Inc plantation was located at point
sixty miles inland, at a place where, on
account OF intersection of roads, and
plenty OF water, the conditions were IA
'OraDle. There are fair roads through
out the colony, built by the natives under
government direction 1t would have
Teeh possible TO drive all the way from
lone the whole sixty miles in buggy
II mere had been any buggy or anything
draw 1t. So far neither horses or
Sla'ue have been able to withstand the
Dite Of the tzetze fly. Mules were not
a!eG by these men, but they had been
uled there by others, and with no bet
ce, success. With its accustomed thor