Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
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around al the head Of -four barrel.
bearing the bust Of the great chan
cellor. This medallion is cemented to q
pyramid or obellsk. which stands in a
! beautiful grove. Just back of 1t there Is
| a great rock 100 feet high. and all about
are trees and banana plants. l under
stand there are other monuments to Bis
marck in some OF the German towns
along the coast OF the Indian ocean, and
that fine statue of him has been erected
at Oar es Salaam.
! The Germans are organizing native
army out here. which shows the effect Of
their system OF military training They
already have 900 native soldiers. off,
cered by about no Germans The men
are put through the same exercises as the
soldiers at home. They are big fellows.
we'll set up and very muscular. many
being over six feet in height and
large in proportion. The most of
them have brutal faces. and they
look though they might be butchers
in battle. have gone about through the
villages with some of these troops during
my stay. Each man carries q hippopota-
mus whip with him and uses 1t that
he has no trouble In making himself re-
spected by the ordinary native.
In the Basukuma Towns.
The people here are not as wealthy
as those of Uganda They wear less
clothing. and their houses are poorer.
esque 1t is made Of cane bent and
woven together and thatched with straw.
the roof often extending down to the
ground. The huts Of the Basukumas
have walls Of sticks set upright In the
earth. and laced with vines running in
and out through them. After this the
walls are chinked with mud. and cone
shaped roof is put on. The doors are so
low that one has to stoop to enter them.
vtSaA frY tn 90
in and out as the door may swing either
way. Sometimes 1t Is hung at the top
and sometimes at the bottom, or 1t may
be lifted in and out at will. The huts
are seldom more than ten or fifteen
feet in diameter and each is divided
into rooms for sleeping and cooking. The
cooking is done In the center Of the hut
on a fire built over stones. which rest
on the ground. The cooking utensils are
usually clay pots and the CHIEF food is
The people also have corn and peanuts
In addition to millet. and they grind all
three by pounding them in mortar and
rubbing them between stones In one
peanuts in q mortar with a wooden
pestle, and in another a woman knelt
down and ground millet by rubbing the
grains between stones. The stones
looked as though they might have been
picked up from the wayside. The lower
one rested on the edge of basket, and
as the -four was ground 1t fell down into
the basket
] find but little furniture in any of the
houses. The people sleep on the ground
ard they squat about on the floor at
their meals They have no tables and
no chairs. A few houses contain stools
eight or ten inches high. and in one or
two l saw low frameworks of poles COW
cred with skins which were evidently
used as beds. The Basakumas are skilled
in making baskets. and they manufacture
all kinds and all sizes. including enor-
nous grain baskets of fine straw. The
latter are used in nearly every hut for
storing millet and corn and other such
things saw one which measured five
feet in height and at least eight feet In
diameter. 1t would. / venture. hold
good sized cow and leave room to spare.
With the Witch Doctors.
In one of the yards entered this morn
ing 1 found a group of men on their