Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-20
e..oial correspondence.

snscial Correspondence.
Tanga, German East Africa
AIsER WILHELM, the emperor
" ~ Germany now owns tn'
H. soa,n,oek OF this African conu-
i N. nent II is a bit OF rock d"
-. vour fist, and 1t was cut tto"
.ro top of Mount Kilimanjaro' WIS
dominating all Africa. 1t kisses 'ne s
-, an altitude almost four miles eDo' y
.no con The rock was cut oil ny o,'
:, tho Germans who climbed 10 '"e
~, of that mighty mountain. IL ""e
r,cnnd smooth and made into p'pei
,teleht and 1t now lies at the kaisei
,,pht hand on his library taDie VI ii''
palace in Berlin,
morn MoI-Nr KILAMANJARo
understand that the kaiser Is prouu
-, owning Mount KilimanJaro' anu
there is no doubt that his SUBJECTS ou'
here feel the same way The mountains
iies inst back of this part OF Tansa'
almost on the border between british
and German East Africa. It's lowest
clones are now reached by railroad ana
come of the richest regions OF oer'ilaiI
EAST Africa lie at it's foot. These are
nou, beine settled by Germans who arc
wanting out coffee and hemp. There
~ some plantations which contain
,ans Of thousands of coffee trees and
isrge tracts are being set out IN rub
nor or planted to grain. colony of
Boers has located there, and there are
also many Jews, who have been driven
iout OF Russia by the prosecutions OF
the car, The land is high and the
climate is healthy. The railroad has
Inow been extended about 70 miles west
ward and IL Is to go up the slope OF
'1[ilimanjaro itself. The governor SEN
eral, who. has recently made 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 win probably come when The
ascent OF Kilimanjaro will be one of
the regular stunts of the world noun
tnin climbers, and we may have cos
rail- Dads running up to health resorts
in and about it's mighty peaks.
During my stay in British East AZ
RIGA | saw this mountain several times,
far off in the distance. 1t looks like
great cloud OF snow fioHtlng, as IL were
in the blue sky. 1t ends in two peaks
like n saddle back. and II stands upon
q great pedestal. which is more than
half nile higher than the top OF
Mount Washington.
THE WORLDS MIGHTIEST
MOUNTAINS.
Kilimanjaro is on the roof of the
African continent, and II is one of tn.
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
DIES, 1t is by far the highest mountain
on the globe We have nothing TO
compare with II in North America, and
If you could put the Alleghenies on top
of Mount Blanc they would not reach
so high. 1 have gone along the Andes
from Panama to Patagonia and have
seen all their great peaks. Chimbo-
razo in Eucador is just as tall as Kill
manjaro, with the height of the Wash
iugton monument added to it, Mount
Sorato in Bolivia is something like L.
200 feet higher, and Aconcagua, on TIN.
borders OF Chile and Argentina, Ia 49,
900 feet or 5000 feet above this topmost
point of Africa.
one OF 5the greatest sights OF the
world is Mount Everest, which rises
out of the midst of the Himalayas to