The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-17
GIVE NARROWING ACCOUNT
GEORGIA NEGROES, JUST BACK
TELL OF LIFE IN AFRICA.
Nd RI Eat Monkey Meat. A Story
of Hardship and Suffering in
the Dark Country.

last Saturday Hal Scott, his wife
Pboda Scott, their children, Sweet,
Tinv and Elijah Scott, their daughter
ir-Iaw. Josephine Scott, and her son,
Tobn Henry Scott, arrived in Ocilla
trnr, the west coast of Africa, says
the DELLA Star.
In 1902 Howell, Fuller and eight
others returned from Africa. They
we're part of the little colony of fifty
civ NEGROES who left DELLA January l,
1000 for the west coast of Africa, and
+brough the aid of white friends were
enabled to return the same year.
Hal Scott and his family, number
INC seven, returned last Saturday,
after an absence of about four years
in the dark continent.
A Star representative had short
talk with Hal on Wednesday. He is a
preacher and has always had the rep
,,tation of being truthful. We have
not space for the picture he drew of
his fatherland, but will give the most
important points. He said:
fFor thirty years it was in my head
10 90 to Africa, and when I became
able 7 went After nearly four years
over there l am prepared to say, en-
pbatically, that do not like the CHM
ate the people or the country. The
natives are low in civilization and will
steal every opportunity they get. We
couldn't understand them, and OF
course didn't like them.
1.-THE negroes in the states who in
tend going to Africa are as was, ig-
norant of how we'll they are getting
along.
"Bishop Turner and Booker 7.
Washington, who are advising the
negroes to go to Africa, west or south,
are doing their race great injury
those of them at least who take their
advice. When they go there they will
find employment hard to get. Farm
labor is paid from twelve to twenty
five cents a day, while bacon is TWEEN
ty-fve cents a pound, -four $500 a
barrel, and everything else in proper
ton.
eyes, I have eaten monkeys. Shot
them out of trees just like we do
sqirrels, and their meat is very sweet
better to the taste than bacon,
though could hardly eat it for think
ing of the monkey.
"Soon after we reached Africa we
were attacked with what the natives
called John Bull fever, and, first
and last this killed twenty-six out of
the ifty-six that left Ocilla.
Hunger was no stranger to US.
Many night my wife wet her pillow
with tears crying for bread, and we
had to depend on monkeys and other
wild beasts for our meat. The swamps
cover all the land there as thick, or
more so, than are the swamps along
the 'Coochee' and it was very difficult
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mails.
with the nine detained in London
we are all out of Africa except five,
who are scattered about along the
west coast some of them six hundred
miles apart, but all living as far as l
know.
England is trying to grow cotton
IN South Africa, and she wants labor
ers who understand cultivating it. |
desire to warn my race against the
schemes to induce them to go there,
where the wages will be small, the
climate destructive of health and
where they will have to work for white
men Just as they do here, only they will
work them nearly to death and pay
IN them wages hardly sufficient to sustain