New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15
AFRICA STILL A FIELD, FOR EXPLORERS.
r,reu's Death ATTENTION What
Doing ON Dark Continent

were shown flowing 10 the northwest flowed
southeast. and mountain chains cropped up where
one expected to find plain. He encountered a
tribe known the Turkana which was considered
to be warlike. He convinced them that he
friendly, and. getting a gramophone he quickly
attracted an adm!ring crowd Of listeners about his
tent II proved 10 be of music hath charms
to soothe the savage breast" of the concert and
the Turkana themselves jor Powell-Cotton said:
Band pieces did not. appeal to them but banjo
duets anything with the human voice whistling
the imitation Of animals cries. evoked either
roars Of laughter approving grunts. The Turk
fine tail men. The heads Of families wear
their hair in a natIike form, among the suk
and Karamoja. while others had great topknot Of
clay and haid decorated With either biz pompon OF
ostrich feathers single feathers stuck all over It.
Nearly all the men little dressed leather
aprons behind. some edged with beads, some not.
Many knives almost enCircling the right
wrist. measuring one and half 10 three inches in
width and guarded with leather. The iron hooked
finger ring for tearing the enemy's flesh at close
quarters was also common. Most had 4 necklet OF
iron wire cases a 'masher collar
formed Of several rings one above the other. This
held a lump of elephant far. which. as it melted,
tricllled down the chest. mark OF ouUlence and
fashion The men Of the tribe wore no clothes. but
their woneu-who were not pre0ossessing-wor
hide skirts. those Of the girls often rather prety
embroidered with beads few men had fine
giraffe tails as tasses fastened just above the left
elbow. Their spears were mostly like the Kara
moias, Few were larger and had blades less leaf
Ike. The shields were also like those of the Kara
moja, but generally larger a few had snunboxes
of small tusks followed and hung round the
neck. but the majority carried Onyx horns covered
with the skin OF "A cows tail. the long hair being
left on the oDon end closed by a leather cap
Leaving the Tar3sh valley, Major Powell Cotton
went in northwesterly direction and came TO a
range Of hills. along the foot of which many
brackish pools The whole countryside was studded
with the remains Of elephants greatly TO his sur
prise In all his journeyings through the elephant
country he never before had found two skeletons
together Il thought" he said, that some fell
disease had attacked vast herd. but on question
ing my guide he said: on. no, this is the place
where the elephants die We often come
here TO pick up the ivory 7 had heard places
like this from the Swahili traders. one man in
particular had told that away the east
Of Lake Rudolph ne had come upon OF these
elephant cemeteries. and in a few days had col
lected ivory than his caravan could carry: but
7 mad always regarded these stories as fables Till
here under my eyes was the proof Of their
truth"
Before reaching the headwaters Of the Nile.
where he took boat for a more civilized CLINE.
Major POwell-Cotton encountered the warlike
Dodinga, from whom he had difficulty IN escaping.
He found the men be well over six feet high
They We're naked save for a lot Of brass arnlets
and wristlets. They wore no finger knives or
hooks but carried spears one large and two small
ornamented with tufts OF hair near head and haft.
The shields were Of the Turkana pattern They
carried small antelope horns some three inches
long some OF oribi and others Of buskbuck. with