Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-07


Johnson. an Englishman. visited the
largest 81 the trogl0dyte cities one
since made an official French post.
Bft 10 vas not until Frank Edward
Johnson. a native Of Connecticut.
who. however. has spent most Of
his life In Africa. undertook an e,-
ploration on behalf OF the smiths0n-
Ian Institution and The cave dWeile.s
90 fhe more remote towns ever had
beheld the face az q white man
As witnessing the universal inter-
est IN geography. o. b. interesting
10 know that boz the smallest and
most remote OF these cayo-naeIling
VILLAGES sheik of inierIor rank.
WHO had waited Ions for au opp0r-
tunity 20 address the American yis-
ltnr. asked What was the result ~
the Peary and Cook controversy. To
had been much Interested in learn
Ing that some one had found the
stick In the north"
There are three types of the frog
lodytos Al OF Thorn we're origin
ally climbing Troglodytes that Is
those who lived in caFes and tun-
nels cui into the living rocks on The
tops Of sugar-lo1fod mountains 'he
mosas ~ our own west o. later
seuerliIons tho Troelodetrs came
1.H1 nearest 10 mo t1'.rre where
tt.v grew grain and fed fhc.. nocks
anl hHrrovcd into tho h.IH.'es
a. O SIN later ia} whom 'n Oh
progress Of time mo, H.r. Unf 81.
often subject 20 hostile attacks 'heF
came down into tho plains bI- here
we're unable 10 forslfo 'hri- former
modes Of living 10 somc places
fhnr used cement 10 build towns IT
/ thorgands ~ cave-shapol dwol'.uts.
gunerimposed one upon another to
I Tho height Of four or five stories
These towns. representing me third
and latest era IN the development 90
I the Troglodyte customs. are them
selves ancient. Sallust writing '7
7 the half century before Christ spoke
Of them as "the people who dwell Boz
curious abodes that resemble over
turned galleys cut 90 tU0 This
description IS as good 90 l''' rs %
was IN 30 DC.
The other type n plaIn-dwc.lIur
Troglodvtes are literally mol m0les
They dig huge holes 90 me fIlf plain
and then drive out from .h Sub.
lerrancan courtyard, hurron.nr tu1
nols IN which they and 'Hoir animals
live.
The progress Of tho rr1sIo1r'es
from their hillside caves Into their
artificial cave cluster on Doc plains
probably Is analogou. f1 tho level
orment Of our America Gift iaolI-
rr into the five and 81. s'orIed rIr-
bios OF the modern times
These Tunisian lroalodytcs show
. 'ho usual Response to physical con-
dilions Rain is SO rare. ana tic
water supply 80 limited that .o1d
crop of grain is obtained only about
once In four wears This fact ner-
essIiltos adequate rraiu storage IA
clIities In tho artificial ccmcn. cave
towns the groups ct DWELLINGS ara
arranged In horseshoe shape. each
tribe or division 10 itself. and the
open end of the horseshoe 3 guard
ed all through the wear ay @ body
of armed men Others Of the tribe
are uomadic and for Line months OF
the twelve roam the descr' IN the
upper chambers access 10 which IL
gained only by q perilous climb on
projecting stones and an occasional
step. are the eranar,es. IN these.
ON account Of mo darkness and the
cool and the drynoss. grain viii keep
In perfect condition Tor numbered
wears That the cave dwellings are
/ ccmnaratNeIr cool in this terrific
ally hot country. and thus minister
to the romfort M mar. ina. mo.
afford e,or,a. for .r,ir ci.ino ~.
opce nrote.ti,, from nar,ud.r, and
from d.c,y. bcs, 40. ,roh,tJ. ~
two rsasons univ u,I, r,,. -. 1T,
has lyod t.r. in a.. a... -,
home for those siy thousand years