The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-02
Nerve of Fair Explorers.

There will soon be coming to Eng.
land the famous woman explorer.
Miss Mary Hall, who arrived the
other day at Khartoum, after trayers-
ing Africa from south to north. Start
ing from Chinde, on the coast Of Por.
tuguese East Africa nine months ago.,
Miss Hall sailed up the Zambesi and
Shire rivers until she reached Port
Herald, whence she travelled by rail
to Chiromo. Borne on hammock by
natives in Blantyre, in Nyassaland,
and thence to Abercorn, on the south
of Lake Tanganyika, which she
crossed by boat, says the Buffalo;
Courier, the intrepid lady eventually
reached Lake Victoria Nyanza after
walking miles and miles through Ger
man East Africa.
During this % days journey Miss
Hall saw no white people whatever
On her arrival at each place the na-1
tives, headed by their chief, brought
her bananas, goats, beans, firewood
and all kinds of present, in return TOR
which Miss Hall gave them Calico
beads and salt The native women
too, sat round her for hours at a.
time, alternately looking at her with
wonder and feeling the intrepid wom-
ans clothing. In many villages the
natives had never seen a white man
or woman before.
At the moment, too, another worn.s
an, Mrs. French Sheldon, famous also
as writer, is travelling in the unex-
plored regions of West Africa for the
purpose of scientific and botanical re-.
search. Besides the native carriers
she is accompanied only by a woman
secretary. Mrs. Franch Sheldon is
the greatest woman explorer alive.
She has visited nearly every country
in the world and has encircled the
globe at least twice. She has tramped
over 1000 miles in the interior OF AZ
rica, has shot big game under nerve
trying conditions, and has won the
confidence of the natives by her pow.
ers to heal their sickness.
In her first journey to East Africa,
and on the announcement OF her In
tention to visit the province under the
rule of the cruel Sultan Mandara, the
German authorities endeaYored to dis
suade Mrs. French Sheldon, fearing
harm would happen to her. But the
old barbarian, who had never seen q
white woman before, and who had In
vain offered 100 cows to any Arab
who would bring him white wife In
his caravan, was too amazed to do
more than gaze at his visitor in awe
| and wonder.
Even the hostile Nasal, upon whose
land no white man had at that time
set foot and who were then consfd-
cred the terror Of all Africa, allowed.
her to visit their homes, took her to
thir native villages and intrusted her
with many Of their state and family
secrets.
Yet these Nasal warriors, a horde
Of 1000, dressed in monkey skins,
with long hair streaming behind,
carrying huge hide shields and eight
foot spears, and having their faces
bedaubed with paint and clay, would
have frightened most men out OF their
wits.
Mrs. Peary, wife Of the famous Arc
tic explorer, has accompanied her
husband in a search for the North
Pole, but far more hazardous un.
dertaking was that of Mrs. Leonidas
Hubbard, the first white person to Wis
it the Nascaupee Indians. This wom-
an, who accompanied the mission OF
exploration which cost her husband
his life by starvation, tramped across
frozen Labrador and penetrated wilds
unknown to white men.
Again and again her life hung on a
thread; several times she was almost
drowned on the perilous rapids, but
eventually, with two companions only,
she reached the Nascaupees, and after
a soiourn with them for several
weeks returned safely to her New
York home.