Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-02
I any weapons--but most people wouldn't
TROUBLE WITH NATIVES.


like to try IL.
TROUBLE WITH NATIVES.
of the troubles he had with the ma
tives the explorer would say little, but
| apparently about the worst time he had
was when his expedition was attacked
| In the very heart of Africa by a. fierce
| tribe who call themselves Sungls, and
| who throw spears with singular ac~
| curacy. and every man. except one, that
| the explorer had brought with him from
| Diibuii took TO his heels and left their
! employer 10 his fate. So tn expedition,
| which began with 80 natives with rifles,
and of 20 pack animals, consisted there
after Of just I.andop, himself
and the pluclsy somali boy,
named Adeln. who stood by him in his
| hour OF need. and after that the ex-
| plorer managed chiefly by catching ma
| lives and making them work for him.
| Occasionally, however. he mana ged to
few carriers and so somehow, he con-
| trived to get the years supply OF pro-
visions and his four cameras and the
| rest OF his baggage across the thou
sands of miles that strench away be-
tween the country OF the Balm ell Cha
eel and the beginning OF the railway
| line through Senegal. which carried him
ana his native boy, Adem, down to
Dakar and the sea.
NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS.
If one wanted any proof. by the
way of the apparently magical way
in which Lander manages Ia get on
good terms with natives who prob
ably would make midday meal or
most white men. he probably could
find it by taking look through the 10
or 80 bullying note books which the
young man has brought back with
him. together with his carefully made
maps OF the unexplored country
through which he passed, and the
twelve hundred photographs which he
took in the course OF his journey For
I'm these notebooks are practically COM
plete and repolOgical records OF all
the new tribes that he came across.
How he induced them to submit to
the process of having the utensil which
is Known as an "anthropemeter" APP
piled to their skulls Is a question of
which even the explorer himself APP
parently does not know the answer.
He assured ME. however, In the cur
ious little foreign accent with which
he speaks English that IL was most
difficult" He also told me, by the
way, that In all the year that he spent
In walking across Africa and dealing
with the natives he never once made
use OF an Interpreter. lie says he dis
trusts OH principle, holding any sort
OF conversation through third per-
son, and declares that when dealing
of whose language he Is ignorant he
prefers TO rely on gestures. He adds.
however that he seldom has to spend
more than three on four days with q
new tribe before he has gained a mas
terry OF at least enough OF their Ian
guage to make his wants understood,
and considering that he already speaks
French. German. English and no less
than 6 other languages and dialects,
the statement Is not, perhaps, as sun
pl-sing as n sounds
As | have said already j found II
remarkably difficult To make Laudor
tell anything about the risks he ran
ON his long walk across Africa. but
when ] picked us newspaper on the
day after the explorer took himself
out of London on his way home 30
iialy found a highly significant item
~ IL dated from Dilbuti. the little
town IN French Somaliland from which
Lander set out, and where, by the
way, Colonel Marchand ended his ia
nous march across Africa from the
Congo, which resulted IN the cash
oda incident" quite crisply the item
announced that two French officials
NJ. CLERGY of the DJibut bank and H.
Perben, a sub-lieutenant ~ the French
cruiser Descartes--had been murdered
by the lisa tribe while on hunting ea-
pediiiun about z miles 10 the west of
the town, and II this IS Tho Kind Of
thing that happens at The point from
which LAndOr's trip across Africa was
begun II Is easy 10 imagine what good
use he was Obliged 10 make Of his
tact when he got into the interior.
DISCOVERY OF ADEM
II was at Djibuti that Lander dis
covered Adem, the 20-ycar-Dld SOmall
boy, who turned out 10 be sauch0 |
Panza In a black skin. II ever there !
was one. The explorer originally en- |
gagged Adem as a camp servant, bed |
maker. chef and general right-hand |
man. and II before his African trip he |
had any doubts about one Of his pet |
principles Il must have been removed |
by the account of this swarthy young |
memb Der of the lisa tribe gave ot him-
self on the long march across Africa. |
This principle consists Of rule from |
which Landor never desiates OF lspor-
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