The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-26
Mountain Top as a Paperweight
Came From Africa and
Is the Property of
Emperor of
Germany.
Tanga, German East Africa.


Kaiser Wilhelm, the Emperor of Ger
many, now owns the scalplock of this
African continent It is a bit of rock
as big as your fist, and it was cut from
the top of Mount Kiimanjaro, where,
dominating all Africa, it kisses the
sky at an altitude almost four miles
above the sea. The rock was cut off
by one of the Germans who climbed to
the top of that mighty mountain. It
was ground smooth and made into a
paper weight, and it now lies at the
kaiser's right hand on his library table
in his palace in Berlin.
ABOUT MOUNT KILIMANJARo.
I understand that the kaiser is proud
of owning Mount Kilimanjaro, and
there is no doubt that his subjects out
here feel the same way. The mountain
lies just back of this part of Tanga,
almost on the border between British
and German East Africa. It's lowest
slopes are now reached by railroad, and
some of the richest regions of German
East Africa lie at it's foot. These are
now being settled by Germans who are
planting out coffee and hemp. There
are some plantations which contain tens
tracts are being set out in rubber or,
planted to grain. A colony of Beers has
located there, and there are also many
Jews, who have been driven out of
Russia by the prosecutions of the car.
The land is high and the climate is
healthy. The railroad has now been
extended about seventy-two miles west
ward. and it is to go up the slope of
Kilimanjaro itself. The governor gen.
eral, who has recently made a trip
through that region, tells me he is well
satisfied as to the progress now MAX
ing, and he predicts that we will some
day have a little Germany away out
here in the heart of Africa, under the
shadow, of it's highest mountain.
The day will probably come when the
ascent of Kilimanjaro viii be one of
the regular stunts of the world noun
tain climbers, and we may have cog
railroads running up to health resorts
in and about its mighty peaks.
During my stay in British East At
RIGA saw this mountain several times, |
far off in the distance. 1t looks like a |
great cloud of snow floating, as it We're, |
in the blue sky. 1t ends in two peaks |
like a saddle back, and it stands upon |
a great pedestal, which is more than |
half a mile higher than the top of |
Mount washington.
WORLDS MIGHTIEST MOUNTAINS.
Kilimanjaro is on the roof of the |
African continent, and it is one of the
half dozen or more spires which rise
high above the roof of the world. With |
the exception of Mount Mckinley and |
certain of the Himalayas and the An
des, it is by far the highest mountain
on the globe. We have nothing to |
compare with it in North America, and
if you could put the Alleghenies on top
of Mount Blanc they would not reach |
so high. I have gone along the Andes
from Panama to Patagonia and have
seen all their great peaks. Chimborazo
in Ecuador is just as tall as Kiliman-
iaro with the height of the Washing
ton monument added to it. Mount So
ratio in Bolivia is something like 1900
feet higher, and Aconcagua, on the
borders of Chile and Argentina, is 2S,
050 feet or 5000 feet above this topmcst
point of Africa
One of the greatest sights of the
world is Mount Everest, which rises
out of the midst ne the Himalayas to
a distance of almost six miles above
the sea. It's actual height is $4,000