The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-23

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 At the end of that time my furlough having come round, 1 intended to start on an expedition into the far north, where the foot of white man never trod. Finding no one willing to accom- pany me, 1-went myself; forming a caravan of 36 carriers, l set out in May, 1907, and after six months of untold hardship, caused by want of water, assertions of my camp fol- lowers, dangerous animals, such as elephants, lions, buffalo, and others, which 1 had to hunt for food to feed my followers. The terrible tsetse fly whose bite is fatal to all domestic ami mals, but not to man, causes terrible irritation to parts of the body which are uncovered; also the terrible heat of the sun whose fierce rays during the day is very lasting and as the evening shades draw round mosquitoes by the millions destroy your night repose by their ceaseless song and vicious bite.
 One of the most interesting places to visit in South Central Africa is the place where Dr. Livingstone, the great explorer. died May 3, 1893. It is situated about 100 miles south of Lake Banguelo at a native village call ed Chutambo. 1 had longed to visit the place, and now the opportunity was within my grasp. When l arrived at the village the chief came out to re- ceive me, and asked him to show me the place (about eight miles from Chatambo). When I started out some of my carriers rebelled and refused to go with me. They wanted their money, as they were tired carrying. But this l refused to do as I knew if lthey got it others would follow them. Seeing l was firm they at last took up their loads, and went on Passing through some country which must he N nearly all swamps in the wet season, l we reached the edge of valley which we crossed. At the edge of the valley among some trees stands white memorial in the form of an oblsk, about nine feet high with cross on top, while at each corner about six feet away, are four smaller ones form ling a railway around the memorial. IThe ground is cleared for about 20 yards all around and covered over with white sand The place is kept clean by the Chatambo chief, who gets a small salary for his trouble, Ii Is strange that none of the Chatambo people remember Livingstone, al though he died at their village, show ing that the native cannot live to be a great age, I met an old man from an adjoining village he was boy when
 Livingstone passed through, going
 down to Chatambo He told me Iiv- lingstone was very sick and had to be
 carried in bed. Although the old lChatambo chief is now dead who saw
 and spoke to Livingstone. the present
 chief can still tell you a lot about him.
 and who took his son to the big Elm
 punda tree with Livlngstone's Initials
 on 1t, and that if any white men came
 that way he was to tell them that Livlngstone's heart was buried there.
 while his body was buried in the
 great Westminster Abby When one looks round you say. has Livingstone's
 work in Central Africa been in vain ?
 It has not. There Is no part of that
 great country which does not have
 something to do with him. It is
 through his influence that the Union
 Jack floats over the land, bringing
 freedom to all those who come within
 It's shadow. Slavery is done away with
 and the natives live in peace and se-
 curity. When 1 left Chatambo. I felt
 l had visited one of the most hallowed
 spots in all Africa.
 At one time the great African con
 tinent was supposed to be all like the A great Sahara Desert but It chiefly \ consists of great stretches of well Wa
 tered uplands, covered with vegeta tion; but 1t appears to me that the
 waters of Central Africa are slowly
 drying up. AS l came across stretche. E of country which were but the dried t up basins of some mighy lake, which | had dried up at a very recent date. The country seems good for agricul.
 ture or any other farming industry IL but Ire terrible tsetse fly makes rear n ing of any domestic animal almost ar ii impossibility. RS
 f Lake Tanganyikd is one of the mos
 beautiful lakes I ever saw With it.
 ragged shores great canons and deer '. ravines, passing through this country " we emerge on to the great plateau O ' German East Africa, which stretches -, across eastward toward the coast ' with it's rich pasture lands and foun 7 tains of beautiful water, forming ricl feeding for the large herds of cattl ,a belonging to the different native chief =. in the district. As we journeyed north i. ward across this beautiful country. w struck range of hills, across whicl r, we journeyed. The scenes were sur o passing Crossing the hills we de ' scended down, down, down. into an other great basin of dried up lake ,s The bottom was covered over witt !. great forest The heat of the sun ii VI this basin as we went along by day ,t was unbearable; we had to give III ,e travelling by day and go on at night.