The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-04
BRITISH OFFER
TO THE zONISTS
Features Of Territory rendered
For Jewish Settlement.
AHEALTHY AND FERTILE REGION

sir Harry Johnston Regards the
Uganda PIateau as Unparalleled In
tropical Afriea-weI watered aud
Covered with Noble Forests-cli-,
mate Favorable to White Men.
when the British government recent
IL offered the Zionist conference at
Basel SO considerable a stretch Of ter,
ritory in east Africa for Jewish settle
ment It volunteered to give away one
Of the most remarkable as wen as one
Of the most interesting tracts Of land I
IN the world today, says a special cable |
dispatch from London to the Philadel
phia Press. The great plateau of the
Uganda region IS not only one Of the
very few In al Africa where white
men may live and prosper, but it is a
land as wen which is both inviting IN
all those respects which should make
life worth living, and ab0undlng, too,
In much Of the mystery and glamour
which have for so long hung over the
central stretches Of the dark continent.
The Victoria Nyanza region, where
the Nile takes its birth, lies $3.50 feet
above sea level, land remarkable for
its forests and plains and unique In its
Mau escarpment, a mighty. stone wall
thrown up by nature with a regularity
almost as marked as though 1t were
man made which faces upon a sunken
valley, called 'srhe Great Rift" About
this rise mighty mountains, which are
almost beyond question those which
figured In the geographical stories Of
the ancients as the Mountains Of the
Moon
When, even in comparatively modern
times, the coast lands Of Africa had
been opened up by discovery and no
mountains Of any unusual size had
been found 1t was affirmed that these
Mountains OF the Moon could have ex-
listed only in the imaginations of those
who flrst wrote Of them But the geog-
raphy Of today has found In such
peaks as Mount Kenia and Mount Kill
manjaro, Witch rise $1,000 and $4,000
Efeet above tile surrounding country,
full warrant fsf an stories Of the past
Sir Harry Johnston, who undoubted
" knows more Of the Uganda region
than any othe4 man living. IN his re-
port on the country made as special
commissioner for the Uganda protec-
torate describes ii as unparalleled in
i tropical Africa He declares it to be
admirably watered, fertile aud cool,
covered with noble forests and but
sparseiy inhabited. He adds that 1t is
quite as healthy for Europeans as
Great Britain itself A very interest
ing feature Of his report has to do with
the various vegetable growtls Of the
country, which would seem to be re-
marSable for the size they assume.
Plants which in the temperate zone
are properly regarded as small attain
IN the Uganda growth many times
that which is characteristic Of them ip
lands farther north.
AIS for the people and, one might also
say. "as for the neighbofs which the
Jews viii find awaiting them they
! make up in peculiarities what they may
lack IA numbers The tract Of terri
tOfF WHICH Has ueHu DWhfeQ ~ 1ASst'
Britain ID perhaps zoo miles long by SO
! or 100 miles in width In that there
are now living seven distinct tribes Of
! african natives, one Of them already IN
; a state OF some civilization but the
other six Enthusiastically barbarous
though Sir Harry Johnston is the an
thority for tile statement that ali Of the
: them are well disposed toward the
! white man and willing TO study and
! initiate his ways The Baganda PEG
pie wear European clothes that IS
!, Turkish garments and most Of then
/ speak a little French or English. Tho
!, other peoples of the region still 50 II
the state Of undress SO long associated
with African natives.
Probably the strangest Of the tribes
!, are the EaYironidos, whose Gambia
: traditions still prompt them to file theil
teeth to needlelike points. and the
famous Kiagwe dwarfs, a tribe d
diminutive hunters which wander'
2 over the greater part of eastern AZ
7 rica between the Victoria Nyanxa and
, the vicinity OF the Indian ocean,