The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-26
TOMB Of RHODES
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arc scattered over the country and !,
nearly every corn patch the womel
were working. The hard labor OF thes.
Il people Is done by tho women. We saw
many girls who were hoeing corr
They were naked to the waist. and thu
white sweat drops stood out like pearl!
on their brown skins as they bent Low
and chopped out the weeds. In some
OF the fields there were men. but the,
were mostly smoking and watching tho
women to keep them up 10 their work
a few OF these lords OF creation were
clad In cast-off European clothing, but
some were absolutely nude. save for d
little skin apron tied around the waist
The aprons are not much bigger than
n ladies' handkerchief
They are made of deer or calfskin
with the hair on, and are quite orna-
mental Ny chauffeur told me that the
women were the wives OF the watchers.
and he latter were out in the fields
to bee that their ladies did not loaf
on the job. Many Of the Matnbeles
have two or three wives, and there
are some trust magnntes" who haye
twenty or so. Women here are sign
of wealth, and the more n man owns
the richer he is.
gS In Tic Native KrInA.
i We stopped now and then to visit
some OF the native villages, many OF
which are found not far from the
roadway. They are fair types OF the
thousands which are scattered over
this country. Let me describe one. 1t
consists OF a dozen or SO huts, sur
rounded by a wall made Of limbs oil
trees tied together and looking not
unlike one of the stump fences of
Northern New York. Inside this wall
there is another. shutting Off space
In which the sheep and goats are kept
at night, and outside the latter are the
cllar mud huts, with walls about five
feet high. and matched roofs which
slope upward In the form of cone.
Each hut has door at the front and
this is the only way into the average
home. Let us enter. The floor Is
plastered with cement made of nativcl
mud. 1t Is as smooth as schooiboy'sl
slate. except Mt the centre. where ~
hole as big as peck measure has beenl
cut out for the fire. The cooking Isl
all done over that hole. the clay pots
resting upon the Goals inside 1t.
q In few huts iron kettles are used.
but, as in the past, most of the cook
ing is done In rude Jars OF clay, made
by the natives. In one hut that III
entered saw green corn boiling. and
in another a ha1f-raked woman was
roasting locusts. while her family
squatted about and smacked their lips.
awaiting the feast. Very few of the
huts are more than ten feet in dia-
meter, and some are much less.
Dom Junhn and Cecil j. Rhodes.
One OF the villages we visited was
that OF famous native chief. who led
H.. IT,. tod IN 4 II n
loss OF Matabeleland to tho natives.
This was Dom Jaahn. He is now an old
man, but still has a great respect for
the man who conquered him. Indeed
he Is SO afraid OF Cecil Rhodes's ghost
that he will not go 10 his grave for
fear his spirit may be lowering about
1T Not long ago the manager of the
Rhodes estate here told Dom Jaahn that
he would give him a horse and new
saddle and bride II he would travel
over the twenty miles between here
and the Matopos hills and look at the
Rhodes monument The man replied
that he did not want Cecil Rhodes to
haunt him for the rest OF his life. and
that he believed 1t was best to let dead
men lie.
Nevertheless, Dom Jaahn was a IA
nous warrior, and during his prime
was much feared. He fought we'll,
but he gradually came TO respect the
English soldiers who conquered him,
A short time ago he was asked what
lie thought of Cecil j. Rhodes and his
troops. He replied:
Those men We're men,"
After this he stopped a moment, and
proceeded
.Those men We're men OF men. And"
he concluded their fathers were men
before them"
/. Cecil Rhodes's Mig Rhodcsinn Farm.
About seventeen miles from Bula-
wayo we found ourselves in the heart
of a big farm established by Cecil J.
Rhodes He bought UP nearly all the
land between Bulawayo and the Mato-
pos hills. including a strip twenty or
thirty miles long, embracing a num-
Der of rich valleys. or, rather. depres-
sions In the. hills. He built dam
holding 9. AUTHORIZATIONS of water to