The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-12

the man on the hand with web strap
which sucks up the skin. The suction
is like that OF a piece OF leather pressed
against fiat stone. 1t is very pain
ful. but 1t does not usually lay mar,
up for more than a day or so at time
What hours do your men work ?"
From sunrise to sunset. They work
hard. and ! should say they are as
good hands in the cotton fields as our
negroes at home. They are much like
our negroes, but they are on the whole
better formed and, II anything. more
muscular"
Portuguese for African Mines.
Portuguese East Africa is now one
of the chief sources OF the labor sup
ply of the mines of the Transvaai. Be
fore the Chinese were imported four
fifths of the negro workmens were
brought in from the outside. and most
y from this region. The miners paid
about SO head to the Portuguese au-
thorities. Within the past year il has
been decided that the Chinese must
be sent back home as soon as can be
and a large number OF natives Will be
required to take their places. There
through Portuguese East Africa and
British Central Africa looking up men
to work in the gold mines.
We took a great gang of such labor
ers on the ship at Chinde, the chief
port for NyassaIand, as we came down
the coast to Beira. The landing there
is rough. We anchored far outside the
bar and the negroes We're brought to
the ship in steam launch and loaded
by means of a great basket. This
basket was about as large around as a
5hogshead and about ten feet in height.
There ws a door at one side. The
negroes, to the number of a dozen at
a time, stepped into this. The door
was closed, and then the basket. ne
groes and all. was raised by means OF
/. q derrick to our steamer.
The human freight howled out In
unison as it rose, and the men thought
they We're killed when the basket came
down with a thud on the deck.
During our stay we took about two
score such basketfuls of ebony hui
manity, making something like 200 ne-
would be taken to Delagoa Bay. and
thence shipped in by railroad to the
mines of the Rand They are en-
ployed on short time contracts and as
they are anxious to go back home The
Chinese came in on three years con-
tracts, with the privilege of extending
them to six years. They have made
Africans. who. as a rule. wish to. stop
labor as soon as they have accumulated
enough money to buy an extra wife or
80, who can.work for and support them
at home. q
A Night mt Bamboo Creek.
stopped dlEbdHDOO creek on account
Of a Washout on the railroad going
into Rhodesia. I had Travelled all day
from Beira, on the Indian Ocean, pass
Ing through lands largely covered with
or SO, and the country Is now flooded.
Some Of the bridges have been swept
away, and the road Is SO unsafe that
the engineers do not dare to go over t
f is landed here in the ,wilds. There is
no. town excepting hotel and this
cotton plantation.
The Motel is tin shanty Of one
story. with q bar-room in front q din
side and kitchen in
mementos of big! game hunting. The
huge skull OF hippo potamus lies on
one end Of the counter, and there re
on skHls and Leopard sRul
rear. AT one end Of the room Is a
stuffed zebra. with az stuffed leopard
Il on top Of him, and about the walls are
hnds az
sells hippopotamus hide Whips and
canes at eXtravagant prices, and he
offers to lend me his rifle II care to
shd Hs says aere are
night by going within a few miles OF
the no tel. IA have otsyet5d decided to CO.
"Sweet Marie" In Black Africa.
g5 we We're a curious party 1--WE came
into the hotel for diner, and our en-
tertainment was interesting. In the
first place, we had the chief ngineer
of the 3Rhodesia railways and with him
\ q nep hew Of Lord Roberts. whojts also
q civil engineer. We had anotherl
railroad official, who ha s. charge Of a
/ line away up the zambesi. In British
Central Africa, and the American cot.
ton planter Of whom II have already
spoken. Among the other travellers
are mil lionaire Wall Street broker,
who is making q pleasure tour of At,
8rtca;75an English commercial traveller
8andla South African miner. on his way
Ito nthe TransVaa !. s S ls3i5 ~ ils
We soon got acquainted, and after
dinner we had q little entertainment
ln.the tln8shack.s away out here In tie
wl|ds,5 lrhe chief engineer played tile
organ nd gave quite a. concert, Sinclud-
Ing among his selections a tnumherfor
American son gs. One of the best Of
these was Sweet Marie,' which was
Written by Cy NVarman when he5 was
the engineer8on a railroad near D Denver,
The song was composed d. by one engi-..
neer in the wi Ids of the Rock les, and
now far off here in the wi Ids OF Africa.
y !! was sung for VS. by another eng I,
Attes the son 81 NJ had Bis same