Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

leached at all. When we've worked twenty
yards or so into the veins III rig temper<
ley transporter and guy 1t to these rocks
above, and run the stuff straight from
where 1T grew into a steamers holds. Great
Christopher! Kate had better look out I'm
not going TO let her be the only millionaire
on EARTH
Dem stones with yellow glass on him
worth money!" asked White Man's-Trouble-
Heaps
I'm Liverpool?"
We'll. say Swansea or Cardiff; practically
the same thing"
No worth money here?"
I'd sell you ton for a fll OF tobacco"
, How you get IT to coast? You tit ia
J pay carriers"
by water. my pagan friend We make
steamah lib for here
'Steamah no fit" said the Krooboy. and
spat contemptuously into the yellow stream.
| Dem cappies no savvy way here Dem
| ribber no savvy way to coast
That's a bit beyond my linguistic pow
ers You must translate some more
Dem ribber," the krooboy explained pa
tiently no fit for run 10 dem sea"
Then where the deuce does ii run TOT
| Does Ju-ju drink it?
'Ju-ju no fit for touch dem ribber said
| White-M Man s-Trouble, taking the question
literally But dem ribber run into dem
squdge-squidge, an lib for Diet
Runs into a swamp and gets lost. My
great Christopher the odds you're right.
| But why in the name of thunder didn't you
| tell me that before?''
Il no savvy," said the Krooboy simply,
vince Sou come. " Iatler, 1 come AFTER
| you from MokkI because | think YOU no
| NJ Tor carry Gem bag.
| carter swung round and picked up White
| Man s-Trouhle's hand and shook il heartily.
| You've got a very white inside to you,'
he said
| lie pulled away his limp hand as soon as
| II was set free, ana RUBBED MS abdomen
| nervously. 20 Carter. L no fit for white
| krooboy.'
Thence onward there were impressed on
| nartef 5 mlhu THESE three great tactS-One:
| ne hau iouhd mine OF immense potential
NaiGe. "o: ne Gould never turn ms MIN
| erals INTO cash uhIeSs ne could ma "A water
| Chahnei down 10 the coast Ana three: III
| lac couluh discover that chanhel hlmselt
no nc one else would at any rate for his bene-
| III;
| ne gnu 'hese Hl'llterS over curing one
| liu nislli 'llu resolEeu 10 dtNote 'Ht next
| Gay 10 exploration he had mad pr'deces-
s"Is on bne pia ,f mouse puhd.ns preIe-
| 80 " t . iIhh .el' d 5i-es oi RUS N''Iahs
| MnIci ne TRANSLATED MO mining tools. IRE
fbal ,n,! ties "Sre europeans. fiow did
| .iiey propose 10 ueal win TINS ore Smett
| o9 If 7, .,. W, ,e-,.-
| ~, ~ tiSy were west AFRICAN fortuSueSe or
M me onuG ,,I,, 'iine, ne was i1aS aware mat
| tiey "ould pe using save lapor Tor every
| uplfs' dI''l ne urea 10 inquire out II IL were
possioie, even WIN slave porters' TO carry
| tntiates uoWh 70 me coast anu cave
| !" 9uhicIe'It MAJ gin loF prolt. Even WIN
M iiTst "peIat estitllaoes ne t3u'u not
| riah7 IL So taxing INTO account the Slow
S9ihg snlps me crude smeitlng methods.
| a''! tle Io"el prices OF the Ola days Ike.
| n,iif"d thef the passage or the creek and
river channels, and if these old Portuguese
| hdu I'"td waterway, why, theh' so eouId
he
80 next DAY ne set out TO hunt Tor quay,
@ fny other traces OF shipping ore, or per-
| na2s some evidences OF boatbulding' and
| he Pre- sSed MS way through vine and bush,
| and ever clHg and scree. till the scorching
| hSat na! dli incl his lean body of moisture.
and his knees zigzagged beneath him
| through sheer WcaN' eSS and WEAKNESS.
Then he made discovery and sat down,
| and for the moment felt faint and dis
Outraged
He mad nearly walked onto the top of a
native village.
He had been going down wind. or the
smoke OF their fires would have warned
him earlier. AS 1t was the bark of a
scaVenger dog gave him the hrst hint OF
the villages nearness. or he would have
descended onto Its roofs. 1t lay beneath
a small bluff, and its houses so assimi-
| lated with the rest of the forest that even
close at hand it was hard to pick out the
human dwellings.
1t was the hour or heat when only
| Englishmen and dogs according to the
| old lbeD wont to be abroad, and the
village slept. Even the dogs found the
| heat too great for wakefulneSs SO that
only the Engshman carried an open eye.
| But the smell of the place advertised It
as a village of fishers. and closer scru-
tiny showed the harvest of the river gut
| ted, and strung up upon the stripped
! boughs of trees to dry in the outrageous
| sun heat There are always markets for
these dried river fish throughout all West
Africa.
Carter backed into thicker cover and
waited TIL the sun began once more TO
cast a shadow and the village woke First
the dogs opened their eyes and began their
| endless scaVengels' prowl Then the chill
dren came out to play in the dust. Next
the women sad to do the village work.
| And last of all, the men emerged from
| the clumPS of bush which one had to
| cept ; huts. spear armed all of them, and
| sat in the patches Of purple shade and
| oyersaw all TO approve and direct.
| You lazy hounds said the EnGliShman
| to himself. Il should like to set YOU to
| shoveling ore all day and signing checks
| all night for your women's bonnet bills.
/ But then" he reminded himself with a.
| sigh, there are some women these days
| who insist on working themselves. how
| ever hard you may press your services
| He reported his find to White-Man's Trout
| BILE his return TO the old Portuguese
| house that evening, and that worthy
| seized with his usual tremors. 20 Carter
| said he dem bushmen that live by fish pa-