The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-05
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The report which YtPooqnt Mountmorrea
made to'the British Foreign Once Of hts
eight months Of Investigations 10 The
CONGO ira State has iiAt beep ppplished-
He adoptod The uau@sAl plan q Keeping
away from the beaten patha and the mat1
lhhns uf oorhnrunication.
He covarSd about $500 udles-a large
part OF the way on foot Of In natjye canoes
mann&d by blacks whom he picked up 81
the villages. Ho has nothing 10 cay Of
the h~aosneYed and writes only Of peop.e9
rho are not yet we'll known to readers oe
Afrlaaa litefaturs.
He followed, to be sure, che we'll travelled
route, the Ubangi River, the largest tribus
tary oG the Congo; but what he has 70 say
about the Uhangi tribes b new. Il 10 Q
curious fact that though some 1of the most
I hourishinR stations Of the whites are
soAttstsA along this great river ecarcely
4 book has been Writtan that even men
| tions thonS lAaAinR tribes.
Mountmorras has now supplied the
lacking incarnation. He also pushed far
through the great tropical forest and came
across the lowest type 81 pyEmies. Of whom
we had previously heard only vague re-
ports. Mountmorres In fact saw them
only for n minute, but be IL the nrst writer
who has seen them at all.
He was forcing his way through the dense
forAat vhsn some tiny srToNb fell close to
him and looking up In the trees he saw That
seemed 10 be q number OF ehtmpan1ees
~aprinsanf from branch 70 braneh and then
a~topninG 70 look at the intruder, after the
raannsg Of the larger apes. He thinks that
none 81 them was more than three feet nine
inoheS'in height.
They were entirely naked, had features az
fat and fofeheads as receding as the CHM
p-anpeeis and, ii IL were not for the use Of the
J bow and arrow, they would be taken for
| apes. They showed their teeth and jab-
bhred lust az apes do. and IL wss dif1cult 70
imagine chat the noises they emitted could
form an intelligent language.
An we had heard Of them was that they
live in the trees. The explorer had no
opportunity 10 investigate this question. for
he would have been compelled to fire on the
piRmies in seif-defence If he had remained
under thoee trees.
Mr.. Wieslet,( q State official. told him that
he had broken In upon a group OF theaa
strange little people In exactly the saEna
Svay. and he assured the explorer that he
had sAen their habitations, which consist al
ahAtera in the forhs OF the trees made By
plating he smaller bonRhs together. An
| other White man In the nAKhborhood alsa
told him that he had Sesn than retreating
into i,,rt such shelters az Mr.. Wiealet de-
soyibed.
"A for Monntmorrcs, he was 50 busy
vatehina ths little men and women springs
int from one branch to another with the
agility Of monkeys that 1t did bot occur "a
! him to look for any shelters.
The moet rGraarkable feature Of the
| DoRgo eannibals on the lSwar Ubangi d
their proliheness. A family OF twenty
wives and f~oursoorC children 70 by No
MEANS a raritg, and sometimes n mt bringe
up a hundred Of his own ofspIing.
Ae the State has full control over them
they can no longer indulge In csnnibal
| practices. though they RtHl declare that
human meat 10 preferable TO ell others
| and the fissh Of the white man 70 superior
| 70 that Of che black, because IL has . slightly
saltish taste. They cay they know because
| thoy ate . white man ten years ago. Thess
are the people who refuaed to sell vegetable
| food to the first vplorers that visited them
eseApt IA exchange for man to eat.
Mounthhnrres Gays there Ia a remarkable
difference between tho forest dwshers and
thosA who live on tho plain. The forest
people, living In perpetual twilight and
skulking along their gnma tracks, are the
most primitive OF human beingh; while the
plain dWellcfs, In the full glare OF clay!
lusty and Intelligent, busy themselves With
numberiess crafts and Industries.
He found the Bausa tribe Of the uppe
Ubangi distinguished for physical beauty
and with an indigenous civilization for
which they owe nothing either 70 the whites
or the Arabs, Their chiefs have high in
tsllisence and quick reasoning powers
and. are very apt In %retort.
Each village has a maternity home to
which prospective mothers are sent for
comforts and conveniences that they do