Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-08-06

aoaied at Edom. on the shore of the
Red Sea When King Solomon's ships
were ready they were manned by the
Kings subjects. and King Hiram OF
Tyre sent in the navy his servants
shipmen that had knowledge oil the
sea. with the servants of solomon
and that they came to Ophir and fetch
ed from thence gold, four hundred and
twenty talents, and brought it to King
Solomon
King Hiram's navy. too. had brought
in from Ophir great plenty oil alihus
trees and precious stones; the queen
of Sheba had brought him l2o talents
Of gold, and in the one year the goid
that came TO Solomon weighed tOb
talents. Besides all this. King Solo
mon had the merchantmen, and OF
the traffic of the spice merchants. and
OF all OF the kings of Arabia, and OF
the governors of the country"
Bat just across the Red Sea lie the
shores of East Africa. and touching
the western rim of the sea is Abys-
sinia, one of the darkest corners or
continent noted for it's modern dark
ness. 1t is believed now that the
Phoenicians. who cruised with the
hillmen belonging to the Kingdom OF
Solomon passed out of the Red Sea
and crused all down the eastern
shores of Africa. Thus. in spite oil
the fact that Genesis 1929 has long
been held to mean the impossibility
of these former mines being found in
In hn Nau York
nauts are turned toward Abyssinia.
But, according TO the latest re-
searches and probabilities, it may be
regarded as behind the time that these
explorers should strike as far north
as Abyssina., Recently Carl Peters,
basing book upon the discovery OF
ruins which he found in Mashonaland
along the Zambesi river in South AT
rica is prepared for the finding of the
tabled land of Ophir in this particu-
| lar section of the continent
Along the river here, far to the
north of the Transvaal country and its
gold Mr., Peters has found the re-
mains of a once more or less practi
cal and persistent attempt to take gold
| from the rocks. He found the sugges-
tions of a race of men stronger than
are the present warlike tribes of that
section-men who had come from the
| far north to labor at the mines and
who were prepared TO defend the
treasures that might be unearthed.
There are ruins of fortifications, indi-
eating that the builders had something
worth defending, and in the mind of
Mr.. Peters, this property was gold,
| held by the Phoenicians or by the
landsmen, who We're OF King Solo
mons race, but trained by the seafar
ing subjects of Hiram.
| There are stories of the Phoeni-
clans sailing down the east coast of
Africa, keeping always to the shores
of the continent, not only because of
the smallness of their vessels and
the dangers of storms, but because of
the lack of carrying capacity for wa
ter. Here and there. as time and con-
venience dictated, they landed, grew
their crops of grain and supplies, and
when the larder was again full they
pushed still southwark.
Did they push into the mouth of the
Lambesi. and did they build there the
|
| Mashonaland?
Seeking gold in Mashonaland might
be more certain than the seeking OF it
in Abyssinia, but in that strange, far
northern division of the dark CONT
nent the kingdom of Menelik has an
attraction for the adventurous that
few geographical divisions of the coun-
try have to offer.
Nature has left the marks of the
mightiest conyulsions upon the coun-
try. Sheer out of the sea where the
hosts OF Pharoah lie IN the deeps this
kingdom OF the present day is almost
| as unknown as it was a thousand
years ago; land of lofty plateaus and
canons, and mighty peaks upon whose
white submits the foot of man has
never trod. Here in the gorges and
I'gulches of these broken ranges the
Nile finds its source, and it is out OF
such broken and shattered crusts of
| world surface that gold had been
delved in all time.-Denver Republi-