The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-02-22

I! oNeneC nTe upon them with his light
rifle aid they disappeared like rab-
bits into the standing crops
Grogan hurried on to the huts from
which he had seen these people come;
but they were too quick for him. and
lied. A cloud OF vultures lowering
over the spot gave him an inkling OF
what ne was about to see. but. as Gro
gan told me, the realization defied de-
scription. He cannot speak OF the
aWIul events even 10 this day with
OUT shudder; it haunts him in his
dreams; at dinner 1t sits on his leg-of-
mutton; it bubbles in his soup-in
me, even the Watonga followers of
drogan went forty-eight hours with
OUT TODD rather than eat the potatoes
that grew in that country! And ne
groes have not delicate stomachs.
Loathsome, revolving. it was a hide
Gus nightmare of horrors.
Every village hid been burned to
the ground. and in every direction lay
skeletons. nothing but skeletons; and
such postures-what tales of horror
| they told.
klshari, a beautiful and well.wa-
/ tered country, had been converted into
a bowling wilderness Kameronse
/ mad suffered to the same extent
Thus a tract of country fully three
/ thousand square miles in extent had
been depopulated and devastated
Grogan estimates that barely two per
/ cent. Of the Inhabitants had survived
| the massacre and famine. In Kishari
and kameronse he did not see sin
| gle soul
After this followed two OF the worst
days In Grogan's life Rapid move
ments alone could save him and his
party from utter humiliation, and
they travelled from sunrise to sunset,
camping in patches of forest, and CON
ceallng their route by leaving the
paths and forcing their way through
the grass. Mummies. skulls, limbs.
putrefying carcasses. washing to and
fro in every limpid stream, marked
the course OF the fiendish horde OF
| Raleka. An insufferable stencil filled
the land, concentrating round every
dealed homestead
Fear of being rushed at night made
sleep Well-nigh impossible, tired as
they We're. The country was exceed
ingly beautiful. Wild stretches of I'M
dulatlng hills, streaked with forest and
drained by a hundred streams. each
with its cargo of bloated corpses.
made a terrible combination of heaven
| and hell. Grogan says that, seeing
all these things. he wondered whether
there were God Flights of gor-
geous butterflies foated here and
there. and. settling on the gruesome
relics, gave finishing touch to the
horrors OF the land
In Kameronse. In skirting along
large papyrus swamp, they came
| across fresh spoor Of natives. Grogan
had only just seized his gun. when a
| woman. q girl and two small boys APP
peared. These his followers captured.
and the woman offered to lead them
Ito her relatives. Grogan followed
cautiously In her wake. the way Lead
ing through very tall grass. AS he
turned d corner the guide flashed
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