The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-01
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ton and 10 effect upon his -lbi~'- Nc
wrote FROM fulnc-- - knovleise ant With
The advantage which hts high pr-ition and
exceptional intelligence gave him
~ course his writings are not scientific
works. hut they have their special value ~
giving the native point &c view and ~ a
srsc collection ~ facts recur,iri Ivy q man
who de~ire- ~ tell the truth and IL well
qualified to get At III" real sist ~ things
10 Q large proportion ~ Arab blood mingled
with the Bantu blood In MutahanRarIas
veins he would have been more difu-e and
INDUCED in many speculation-. But his
style 10 concise and his statements are not
long spun ont. He has collected the raw
material for the anthropologi-,. who will
doubtless give full credit 10 the native
historian and chronicler.
A man Of means. he in able 10 I've his own
publisher. His writings are now being
issued from his own printing press.
Many 81 his subjects can read aud write,
and bright students are not lack ing among
them. He saw to il that the art Of printing
was represented among the industries
taught to his subjects.
He imported "A printing press. and trained
natives are now putting his pages into type
and turning out the printed sheets. The
Sultan Ia the first native author near the
shores of the greatest Of African lakes.
A while go Mutahangarua decided that
his residence did not befit his position in the
world. and he in now erecting a new palace,
which il TO be a wonderful building for Cen
trail Africa. II il three stories and is 10
have a number Of towers. plenty Of win
lows and European furniture.
When ground was broken the Sultan
appropriated SIC. 900 for the bare building.
Perhaps he will find. as other builders do.
that first estimates must lie supplemented
by later appropriations.
The Sultan was the first native TO intro
duce coffee culture on the mountain slopes
of Central Africa. and his plantations are
larger h those OF any OF the German
planting companies. though most Of his
trees have not yet come into hearing. lie
employs hundreds Of workmen to care
for his trees. about ZOO, 600 in number, that
spread along the mountain sides for many
miles.
His first planting. Of 10, OOo trees, IL now
yielding well. and British steamers calling
a. the port Of Bukoba a the output 10
the Uganda railroad. which carries il 10
Mombasa for shipment to Europe, where il
brings a good price.
II was thirty-seven years after Stanley
tramped through this region before a single
trace Of white influence reached IL. No one
would have dreamedt that such a story as
this could be written to-day of the en-
lightened ruler of a land that but yester-
day, wcs stepped in barbarism.