Casco Bay breeze., 1912-06-20
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which nothing much is known at pres.
ent, and they have as yet no written
language, no European having ever
lived among them. found them in 1892
very wild and shy. owing to the un.
welcome visits of Belgian soldiers, and
with difficulty persuaded one or two
to lead me for an hour or so into the
great forest. On the same occasion
pygmies were not to be seen, having
ned south for the same purpose of
avoiding the attentions OF uncontrolled
police!
The other cannibal tribe, the Bagi-
su, inhabit the slopes OF Mount Ell
gon. where they are crowded together
in comparatively small area of fer
tile country, which they have brought
to high degree Of cultivation. The
clan system Is well developed among
them and its regulations rigidIy OBJ
served. Each clan for the most part
occupies a strip OF country running
down from the foothills Of Elgon, and
to that strip 1t is obliged to keep for
all purposes
The Sleeping Sickness.
The sleeping sickness, many cases
OF which came under Mr.. Kitchfng's
personal observation is graphically de-
scribed:
From this place Qganga) we went
TO visit one OF the sleeping sickness
camps. at place called Buso. some
two miles away. The horrors of the
disease had been aggravated by the
famine; in spite Of all efforts on the
part OF the doctor In charge, food was
almost impossible except in small
quantities. and with five hundred pa.
tients In the camp large supplies were
needed to give each even a little.
Deaths at the time were running
up TO seventy or even ninety in a
month; as We passed from ward to
ward We saw the corpse of man who
had just died lying in the COURTYARD
awaiting the doctors orders for bu.
raj. In every direction sat groups of
hopeless sufferers. in different stages
OF the disease and various degrees of
starvation. mere skeletons many of
them. barely able TO crawl about.
AS III disease and famine were not
enough, plague OF fleas and jiggers
mad defed all the efforts to extermin-
ate them, and the feet OF many pa
uents, especially the children. were
In a horrible condition OF liberation.
Some OF the less afflicted patients. still
In early stages O: the disease. were en-
gagged In the unpleasant duty OF re-
moving the jiggers and dressing the
feet OF those too weak to do H. for
themselves. Those comparatively
strong ones lived in huts by them
selves, only the more advanced cases
being taken into the wards.
Fresh cases were constantly being
hrorsht In: one man apparently died
In the hammock on the way to the
camp. and his bearers had commenced
70 bury him on the roadside, but he
sat up In the grave and was brought
on. When We saw him he was able
to walk about. better food having no
doubt done much to Temporarily re-
store him.
"One OF the saddest sights was the
house set apart for the reception of
patients In whom the disease induced
mania: there IN great fear with such
cases that they may set fre TO the
camp. either deliberately OF by acci-
dent, during the night, 90 they are
made to sleep In q place entirely with
out windows, and which can be secure
iy locked MP during me hours OF DARK.
ness. One such house into which 7
went at another camp, IN Bueanda.
was occupied By perhaps nfteen such
unfortunates: - they were mostly IN
the advanced stages Of sIespfuR sfck.
ness. they probabiy suffered fttie. N
at, al. Ss>ng uDeoass1ous prnceSou1ly
all the tins."