The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-29

IBulaWAyo. M CApital. only n DMy
Fraln New Hark.

IsulaWnyo. tss CApltal. only n DMys
Fron New Yark.
sTwentY-three days irom New YORK.
seventeen Rrlm Southampton. and yoJ
are IN Cape Town Fourteen hundFel
miles by rail from hat city. seventy hauEa
running and you am In Mafalelsland
Twenty. eight years ARO when | hrsl
came to AfriuA, writes a correspondent
Of the LyesWnRile, the same journey tool
ak months.
Tbs heart - MAtabslelAnd IL some ,s0s
miles north from the Cape ot Good Hopa,
100 miles south from Cairo. $50 miles
west from the Indian 0caan, $50 miles
west Of the Atlantic Ocean and 800 miles
from R0ossvelt's hunting country. Less
than twenty years ago the mind imAgina-
ton and practical enterprise Of Cecil
Rhodes opened up and added 10 the
British Empire this vast stretch 81 terri
tory 10000 square miles in extent.
-Bulawayo. the capital Of MatAbeleland.
IA a finely laid out tUwn. full Of com
mercial activity-the centre Of business
life for the Who'll country. But yesterday
I.obengulA the savage had his cOrnnalds
spread over this very site. and close By
where stands the Government House AZ
to-day was the spot upon which iron
handed Justice was ds0rsed by this
dsspotic monarch.
What strarRs creatures these Mata-
bsles arel A StAlwart. independent race
for generations used 20 power. passion
ately fond of fighting. For an army Of
them to start ont in the evening and re-
turn the next afternoon. having dis
posed OF :. ZOO victims. was not an unust,al
occurrence. Old King Lobengula was a
terror
AS one goes about among the people
to-day the spirit OI war seems dead in
them. and yet when one talks 20 the
older men II fighting lays their hacks
seem b. stifen. their eyes light UP and
every muscle quiyels like an old var
horse 81 the sound % the buGle.
y have been living snn0ng these people
for some time. ,sGing their pictures,
listening 70 their songs. hearing theiT
gonderfui folk lore. II IL astonishing 10
find even in tho far away places how tho
natives knew and revered Rhodes. A
statue Of the empire maker stands on the
main street Of bulawayO. The Matabelss
Tor long time we're scared Of IL. and AZ a
dry season followed its unveiltng they az
pressed their belief that rain could not BE-
expected 70 fall while Mr.. Rhodes was
hatleas. Che statue was barsheaded)
The excurnionist 70 n country like
Rhodesia seea but the outside u its hfs,
To understand something Of its faecina-
ton Ons must stay for years. On my
first trip 10 this continent, more than q
EenerAtion ARO. ! vOwed II was spared
70 Res my native land again nothing
ahOuld drag me hack here. After SiN
Journeys 70 and fro. to-day ! settle no
where 20 vel ~ in Africa. There u q
magnetism about tho DARK Continent
which gets into the vofy marrow Of yony
bones. % eli the one and q half million
white p9ople In tho sub-cDntnent noue
are outside this influence, and In Il you
have tia secret Of African proRreas.
NO primeval country IN tb9. history of
the world has madg such swirl advance
IN fifty yoAFB a. has this. The spirit 81
Livihgstons. Stanley and RhOd1s stu
lives and another i've deuades will see
Africa . nation. The s1upsndOus dream
0f C0Gl RhOdaa 4 randy becoming q
reality. Last month ehs hrst train ran
FROM the Cape ~ the CopgO border. .
journey Of 7.l@ miles. and IN the north
tho railway from khartum southwark
reached Wad @edani. 40 miles south og
kkArtum, i.t9i from Cairo. but 7.S3o
more males - lunplgta, aRd IN our day vg
may hear the cali lAh aboard Tor ths caps
10 Cairo SKpreas.'