The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-21

, me that the land is rich at the foot, and
 that it is inhabited by number of tribes. each governed by an independent sultan
 or chief. There are Nasal among them,
 who have large flocks of cattle and sheep,
 and many other tribes who engage in
 farming, having little fields of grain sur rounded by hedges. Some of these people
 irrigate their fields, carrying the water
 from level to level by means of canals. A little further up Kilimanjaro is covered
 with dense vegetation. The trees are full of orchids and other air plants; and there are lions leopards and all sorts of wild beasts. There are some elephants.
 and the hunting is said to be very good. Higher still the vegetation changes and
 becomes more like that of the temperate zone. At the altitude of Pikes Peak it ceases entirely and from thence on the perpetual snow begins
 The toprnost peak, known as Kibo, is al- ways snow-covered. This was first as-
 cended by Hans Meyer in 1889. He says that 1t has a crater more than mile in circumference and over 6o0 feet deep, the walls of which are covered with ice. The lower peak is known as Kilmawensi. It
 is just 17,5o0 feet high, or about as high as Popocatapeti. in Mexico
 The Natives About kiIimanlaro. I wish I could show you this little AL rican town of Tanga. It lies here on the seacoast just opposite the clove island of Pemba, which belongs to Great Britain. It is in German East Africa few miles below the Umba river, which is part of the boundary between this country and the British East Africa. It lies at one of the mouths of the Pangani river which rises on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and carries away the greater part of it's snows.
 ha acf1 1,nr1 t1 the vegetation is so dense that the moun- tains cannot be seen Indeed there are no hills anywhere, and the eye wanders over. cocoanut palms loaded with nuts and grass lands spotted here and there with fat baobab trees, whose skeleton-lilSs branches reach out like great white fingers clutching the air.
 Tanga has beautiful harbor. The mouth of the river is such that if forms , a bay of thousands of acres. well pro- tected from the storms of the Indian ocean. At the entrance to the hay is q point on which stands white lighthouse
 and farther inland is a big whte-walled red-roofed hospital of two stories. At inc end of the bay the buildings of the city begin. They are composed of European structures and matched roofed huts which are the homes of the Hindoo mer
 chants and of the Swahili natives. German Settlement.
 | The town has a bona or fort and A large iron shed, which serves as a native market. It has post office like those of Deutschland and government buildings of various kinds. There is a two-story hotel with a roofgarden upon 1t and wide verandas running around it. There Is a public school where the pupils are black boys with shaved heads They study | their lessons under the picture of the 1 kaiser and kaiserin. which look down { from the walls. As to that matter. how | ever, the emperor and empress are ubi- quitous in this part of East Africa. The officials hang their pictures in every pub | lie building, and nearly every house, store and hotel has cheap print of the kaiser. There are statues and busts of Bismarck, which is on pyramid at the southern end of Victoria Nyanza. There is bronze bust of him on a pedestal in the public garden at Tanga, and rather | fine statue of him at Oar es Salaam. The streets of Tanga have German names like the streets of Berlin, and the same is true of Dar es Salaam. There is no doubt about this being German ter ritory and no doubt that the Germans rule 1t.
 FloggIng the Negroes. I see the same fierce native soldiers everywhere, as I saw them about in Vic toria Nyanza, and they, as we'll as the European officials, go about with a lord ly air. have already written of the flogging. The colored man here has but few rights that the white man is bound to respect. <This is especially so after
 one gets out into the wilds. Indeed, lam surprised at the cold-blooded way in
 which the traders relate their own treat
 ment of the natives. An American.