Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
THREE MINUTE
JOURNEYS
BY TEMPLE MANNING.

Where Carriers Are Hung on Mules.
In all countries, to ride instead of
walk is a public evidence of wealth,
but In Mesopotarnia the rich man
who rides would do we'll to consider
his equipage before he enbarks. If
he does not he may have q strange
and uncomfortable time before him.
Although L am not rich, but COM
fortably poor. made arrangements
for "kajavah" one morning without
even knowing what sort of convey
ance I had let myself In for. ! soon
found out all about 1t.
On the back of mule were slung
two covered wooden boxes, open at
tho front and back to give air and q
view Of the road, and into one OF
these / climbed. In the other box
was the wife of my American friend
who was waiting us at the city gate.
When we were settled In our cramped
cage the man who led the mule
jerked its bride, and off we went
/ seized the wooden support above
my head to keep from pitching out.
Never in my life have exepri-
enced on land any motion so amaz-
ingly like the wild surge of the sea-
Il | were not q good sailor / would
have been seasick in ten minutes
1t was exactly like being In a tiny
rowboat In the middle of the Atlantic
ocean during hurricane.
| stuck 1t out because my friends
wife made no complaint and was
ashamed to weaken first. But when
we came to the gate and my friend
appeared L insisted on taking his
horse and giving him my place. Ever
after | either rode horseback or
walked.
1 was the means of saving q life
once In way that I trust will never
happen again. l was making trip
toward the interior of Africa through
a region where white men are seldom
seen and never welcome. Nominally
under British rule, 1t is really q petty
despotism called Gashagar, the cattle
stealing Arab chief of which then
claimed to be king. The inhabitants
were partially Moslems and partially
superstitiouS nomadS with no religion
but their own black magic.
As we approached the village the
CHIEF could not be found, although we
sent for him and waited over a day to
meet him. One of my boys" came to
me late at night and told me that the
chief had run away. He had found
tttiS OUT III 5Otuo uhuoESEOuhu way
peculiar to these natives. whether
they speak the language or not. He
had been told by one of the women
connected with the chiefs krael, who
said that her master was afraid OF
the white man.
Next morning, the chief still being
under cover, we started to continue
our journey. Not far from the village.
some distance from the trail, one OF
my boys came upon a man chained
in rude stock. He was nearly
starved. One of my party who could
| understand the dialect In which the
unfortunate spoke, found out that the
poor fellow has been fastened there
| for ten days, during which he had
| eaten nothing but such roots as grew
within his reach, and a few insects
| that he had caught. We released him
| and fed him a little soup--two or
three spoonfuls at a time, until his
strength returned enough to stand
our carrying him to the next village
| The poor man told us that he was
the owner OF half a dozen cows which
the chief had demanded OF him. Re-
/ fusing to give them up the chief had
driven his cattle away and put him In
the stocks in that deserted place to
starve to death or make his escape Il
| he could. We took the unfortunate
| man with us and laid the matter be,
fore the chief Of the next town, wht
was an Arabian, with some Sort Of
official standing, and who promised t
see Justice done. But II will be mans
long day before the stocks disap
pear from the interior of Africa.