The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-01-16
Cannibals and Cycles

Before ana since the days OF Liz
ingstone combination OF The role.
OF missionary and explorer has beer
no rare thing, but it IS seldom, II
the twentieth century at any rate
that the establishment Of new mis-
sion station has involved the sur.
mounting Of sucu obstacles as have
faced c. 7. studd and Alfred BuX
ton in their expedition to plant tbs
Hear. OF Africa Mission III the Man
MAN country in the northeast cor
ner of the Belgian Congo, says tbs
London News.
Though Mr.. studd, who is, ot
course, one Of the famous crieketel
brothers. and a member OF the we'll
known Cambridge seven, left London
with Mr.. Buxton his future s0n-in.
law. at the end of January, news OF
mis- arrival at his destination is still
being anXiously awaited. Some idea
Of the delay in communication may
he gathered from the fact that this
last letter from Mr.. Studd received
by his family was dated Sept. Is
and acknowledged letters posted it
London in April.
Following their original plan, Mr.
studd and Mr. Buxton Travelled by
sea to Mombasa, thence by train tC
IsanGa, across Lake Victoria, on By
boat, cycle, motoriorry, and theiE
own legs, to Lake Albert, where the
long trek into the heart of Africa
began. The travellers goal is the
village OF Dongu, in the north OF
the Belgian Congo, where they viii
settle down, build themselves huts
learn the language, and setting on
foot what mission work they can
hold on till reinforcement follow
them out from England.
Even to me" Mrs Studd said
yesterday, my husband gave no as
srrances as to whether he would
stay out there one year or five. He
felt he had TO go, and he simply
went"
From Mahagi Ga port consisting
of il single native hut, on Lake AL
bert, the two missionaries pushed on
sometimes on foot, sometimes riding
their bicycles. along boulder-strewn
tracks, with seventy bearers carrying
their belongings Both have been
down with fever, MIR. Studd several
times; a hut in which they were
sleeping caught fire over their heads.
and involved tent pitched close by
in the conflagration, While lions and
leopards, croeodiles and cannibals
have at different times caused APP
prehension or actual danger. The
cannibals were of the Balinda tribe.
They were delighted, . Mr.. Studd
writes, lat seeing the first cycles
ever over those regions. They had
filed teeth. the badge Of cannibals,
but we laughed and they laughed
and we had hearty meal off sweet
potatoes which they sold US for a
lie" buttons, At the next hating
place the people We're hostile, and
would give us no food. We rot
away with difficulty. and cycled on.
The chief man ran ahead to the next
village, and feared he had evil de-
signs. but when We got there We
found 1t WAS merely that he might
be able to see us cycling again"
In the lturi Forest. the home Of
the pygmies, the party had three
days trek beneath trees so thick
That the sun was never visible. When
they get to Dongu the only Euro
peans near will be one or two isolat-
ed Belgian officials.
Mr., Buxton has picked up from
returned travellers two or three hum
cred words Of the language. which is
rudimen'ary and monosyllabic. 1t is
hoped they are in Dongu now.
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