The San Francisco call., 1903-12-13
INSTRUCTIVE JTUDEoS
By YlNO1ERAEfElN AND
uINSS)F1EN


scientific instruments, guns, ammuni-
ton. brass wire and cloth. When I
left Matadi for my trip home brass
wire and cloth were the currency, and
every load for the Upper Congo was
taken from Matadi by carriers. who
were paid in wire and cloth, the rate
being between SO and SO for a load of
sixty pounds to be carried over the
caravan road of $50 miles. Thirty
thousand carriers were employed then,
and hundreds Of thousands Of loads
were carried annually to and from
Stanley Pool; but now the new rail-
road transported all the loads to
Tumba, nearly half way to the pool,
and the carriers all started from there
instead OF from Matadi. Another
change: When 1 left Matadi in 1898
money was Of little use for transporta
ton, but now il was absolutely nee
essary TO pay the railroad in money,
while the carriers would take nothing
but cloth and wire We were in di-
lemma. having no money to pay the
railroad TO transport our goods TO the
place where our kind of currency was
good. This was what forced us to
make our offer to the trading company,
for / knew that, once in the interior
with our equipment, we would soon be
independent
We had chemical outfit for pros
pecting for minerals and diamonds and
geographical tools for taking observa-
tions and making maps. 1t was our
plan to photograph everything, and we
had cameras, plates and other supplies
by. the load. For our geographical
names Of rivers. countries. peoples, we
had a phonograph and blank cylinders
by hundreds, expecting to make an
authentic register of the pronunciation
Of the African names: besides wanted
these registers to show the slmilarities
I had noticed in the widely different
languages.
our guns were the latest model
small bore. metal jacket balls. the 30-4O
and the 25-35 Winchesters-with am
munition to last years. We had Colts
A revolvers and a good all-around ap-
paratus for loading cartridges. We
were stocked with a tennis set and a
bicvcle. and besides all this / had my
legerdemain outfit as a side tack. l
had studied under a professor and be-
come quite proficient in all current
sleight-of- hand tricks and meant to
see what the natives would think OF
them.
had an elephant tanning equipment
consisting Of chains, ropes, pulleys, etc.
All these things were boxed and most
Of them in zinc soldered cases. making
many extra loads besides our beads,
wire and cloth, tenting outfit, clothes.
etc.
During the time we were waiting for
an answer from the company on the
Timer Congo l came into camp one
evening TO find McClintocl1 with
towel around his head and a fever six
degrees above normal. That was
something startling, but l kept telling
him il was nothing. l put him to bed,
covered him with three blankets,
bathed his head and wrists with cold
water. and put a cold application on
his chest. It seemed as if he would
never perspire. and, though it is better
to wait until the patient is perspiring
before giving quinine, 1 gave him fif-
teen grains.
Quinine generally runs the fever up
higher. McClintock's ran up to eight
degrees and then he began to perspire.
I was getting very much frightened, for
il seemed as if it was never going to
start down. But when perspiration set
in I knew it YOU'D go down, but keep
on rising until they burn out the life.
Ten degrees is nearly always fatal, and
Just before death it drops below nor
NAL McClintocks fever soon quieted
ha c1a Tho daW II
was entirely gone. but he was so weak
he could not stand on his feet. 1 fed
him auirina in doses of fifteen grains
twice a day, and the evening of the
third day ne was out to dinner, and a
day after no one would have imagined
he had been sick.
he took il all quietly and never
whimpered. Many newcomers do not
take it that way. I knew Frenchman
who after his first few days became
very weak and would lie around and
cry like a baby. He made his will,
and as there was no priest confessed to
the administrator. He had been mixed
I'D in some meanness and wanted to die
( with a clear conscience. l told him he
was rot sick and not to make q fool
Of himself by confessing things he
would regret telling OF later. But he
! knew he was gcing to die and COM
menced to moan. He made his confess
sion ard felt better After he made it
Il sdvised him TO turn over and die
gracefully. and he chased me out OF
4 the room with his revolver, jumping
+ out Of bed to get it as spryly as a well
man. ! doctored him and in five days
, he was as well as ever. He had not
taken enough quinine, being prejudlced
/ against it.
Imported Gems.
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