The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-05-28
NATIVES OF CONGO
REMEMBER STANLEY
American Party Goes Over Elk
plorer's Route for Wild
ssa,s. Life Films.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Henry NJ. Stanley is still wildly r
membered by natives In he hea OF
Africa, according to James Barnes, OF
the Barnes-kearton expedition, which
spent more than a year traversing 5000
miles of jungle and forest in Africa
under the auspices of the American
Museum of Natural History. They
We're armed chiefly with moving pic
ture machines, with the object OF
starting a film library of wild life. Mr.
Barnes reached London this week.
In the course. OF a picturesque mar
rative of his experiences to the New
York Times correspondent, he said:
Crossing the northern end Of the
great mountain range known as the
Mountains of the Moon. discovered by
Stanley, but only thoroughly explored
by the Duke of Abruzzi, we reached the
valley Of the Semliki river, where we
obtained pictures of the giant croco-
ollie. for the Semlik 'croc' far exceeds
all others In size. We filmed one near
ly 80 feet long, standing 3 to 4 feet
high, and it looked like an a~ntedeluvian
monster.
1T was a place of almost absolute
starvation. The dreaded tse-tse fly
was very prevalent, so, after a week,
with as much haste as possible, we
crossed the hot plain and entered q
great forest, stretching 1000 miles
across the continent. We followed
Stanley's route in the reverse direction.
1t was interesting how many elder
chiefs who had either fought against or
helped him remembered Stanley. One
native who remembered the explorer
well, when asked how Great Bula Mem
tart or Stone Breaker as Stanley was
lie frny 49, f@- 4l-A L. ty--L-
rocks from the river channel, impressed
him.. replied In a few awestricken
words:
He could kill a man with a glance
of his eye
We saw in the possession Of q mis-
slonary the identical camera Stanley
abandoned because he did not have a
professional photographer who under
stood Its operation. We also obtained
photographs of Stanley's island, STAR
Walton camp, the cataract where he lost
his precious little steamer, and of the
surviving steamer, which is still run
ming.
The Congo in the last three years
has undergone a metamorphosis and is
no longer commercially paying. The
progress when the country was under
the regime of King Leopold has been
checked. Commercially the change has
been enormous Five years ago the
profits accruing from rubber exporta-
ton under forced labor amounted to
millions of pounds sterling. Now not
10 tons of rubber are leaving the coun-
try The rubber industry is dead in
the Congo. The hold of the Belgian
officials upon natives Is slowly van
ing, the blacks themselves showing
signs Of getting out OF hand.
The beautiful unit around the
lakes and some rivers has been devas-
tated by plague, n sleeping sickness
has wiped out 100000 inhabitants in the
last 10 or 15 years.
AS regards the future of the Congo,
from observations of our rather hur-
r1ed trip. there is but one answer. The
great burning question is neither COM
mercial nor political, but the necessity
OF combating the Of sleeping
Fully half the inhabitants
who used to live along the Congo
river have fallen victims. Vast ter
ritories once teeming with human life
are now untnhabited. You can't
imagine 1t. 1t Is simply awful.
The rubber industry, owing to low
price and difficulties with native la
Dor, is a dead Issue, but mineral wealth
and newly discovered diamond fields
hold tempting possibilities.
Only two really live commercial
propositions are in h hands Of Eng
lish and Americans. The Guggen-
helm and Ryan interests are spending
oSS pushing " dku AOI Oily
prospecting. but are actually produc-
Ing gold and diamonds, while the Sun
light soap people, who are In search
OF palm oil, have instituted a regular
streamer service. A corps of efficient
organizers and managers Is building
railways and really developing Sec
tons Of the Congo in a businesslike
FASHION. In one Of the mines north
of Banalai, we found gold nuggets
more than seven pounds. We
had some difficulty getting movies of
Mbuti or pigmies, The forest people,
the tallest under o feet, when they
saw us coming, deserted their villages
and ran n left only an old woman
behind.
Mosquitoes, which are supposed to
exist in large numbers, I may dismiss
with a passing remark. I've seen
more in n evening In New Jersey
than I encountered In a who'll year in
Africa.
Interesting films were obtained Of
native customs and dances. They did
about everything except the tango.
Also we made interesting p~honograph
records OF native songs and music. I'm
fortunately the greater part of these
was lost as the porters i~ntrusted with
the boxes grew tired and threw them
away In the forest. This and the
complete loss Of our collection of
scarabs. which disappeared in the same
way. We're our only severe disappoint-
ments. Altogether the expedition OBJ
tanned nearly FIVE miles Of films. show
Ing 33 different speciments of animal
life, embarrassed and unwounded.n
The Movies" In Ceylon.
From the New York Times.
The moving picture craze has MI