Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-06

~ brass and iron wire which arc 80
much worn on the mainland | saw one
woman who had ON an ivory bracelet.
alai man who wore an anklet COM
posed OF a section OF ivory tusk ho-
iowen out Others had bits OF bones
and glass beads tied to their hair.
Nearly all were smeared over with
grease, and such az had hajr had 40
covered 1t with oil that tho smell was
pronounced
uKEREWE VILLAGES.
The villages are composed of rude
nuts made OF cane and poles and COW
cred with grass. They have doors AT
.he front so low that one has TO stoup
~ go m over some OF the doors are
ton pells' which are hung there ST
LA, LA II am avil spirit comes in It win
pump It's head against the bell aud
warn the owners and perhaps be scared
away The people are superstitlous.
Ihey believe In devils of all kinds and
Wltch doctors. They have littL, idols
oefore which they pray and part of
Inelr religion is n Worship OF snakes.
mere are many poisonous reptiles here,
put the natives will not kill them nor
uriNe them out of their huts: and they
are said TO consider death by the bite
OF a snake sure passport to heaven
ukerewe Island has dense forests.
Mhlch are Just filed with monkeys
hoN chattered al US out OF the branch.
es MS we walked through the woods,
scalhpeflng away as we pointed our
guns al them. There are also. many
hippopotam here. They live all along
me shores and go from there back in
10 inc country, They are sometimes
trapped in pitfalls and then harpooned
by the natives Mr. Seifert tells me
thal there Is a herd OF IL elephants
N this part of the island, but that the
German government has made II PEN
any to shoot them and they are not
molested
during our stay here the steamer has
taken on dozen cords or so OF Cker-
eve wood. This was brought on board
by gang OF black natives who carried
II on their heads from the place where
they were chopplng the trees. The dis
tanee is. judge, at least a mile from
the lnndtng. Both men and women are
engaged IN Che work, and their wages
were about four or five cents day.
They are all under this American. who
is Just one foreigner among 25. 600
blacks. and notwithstanding this. boss
es them all.
THE BUVUMA ISLANDS,
l wish could show you some of
these islands about which / have been
tfHNennR Tor the last Few months. KaV-
irondo gulf is separated from the lake
by fringe of islands, and it was at
these we stopped on our way ont from
Port Florence. In going to Ripon Falls
and the source of the Nile we passed
through the Buvuma Islands and we
spent some time in the Sesse Archipei-
ago as We sailed southwark into Ger
man East Africa. The largest group
of islands in Lake Victoria is the Sesse.
NSHh fnta MI. IN. llsf.a
next to them are the Buvuina Islands,
also British. which lie at the north
Of the lake. making a series of big
stepping stones almost across Napoleon
gulf.
The Buvuma Islands are beautiful.
At a distance they might be taken for
some of the Thousand Islands of the
ST. Lawrence. Some of them are COW
cred with grass. and others are high
and well wooded. Buvuma Island.
which is the chief of the group, Is
shaped like an octopus. II has a CEN
ter about 1000 fet high. and from
this great green tenticles branch out In
TO the sea. 1t is not unlike the Island
of Celebes In shape. This island is
fertile, and It has large population
Its people live In matched huts each
of which ends In a steeple bound
around with grass. The shores are
covered with banana plantations. and
the houses shine like silver out OF the
green The Buvuma natives are much
like the Basogas. who live on the main
land about the source of the Nile not