Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12

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 rtKsk 9r mt BAG E '- RECOVERING a vast new dia
 mond field which the smart. Att and widest awake of men h the diamond mining busi- Mses ,did1't know anything about; dis QNer1ng sa new tribe of African saw fgpe h the very heart of the dark eoutigent which the smartest and wid- Isset AWak4 of professors didn't know
 ahCat; getting shot at by hordes xooeutful natives; barely escaping 9ahx powdered into medicine" for fakive use: suffering the chills and fevers and tortures of malaria and other jungle diseases and coming safe: tlrough 1t not only alive and com. Epefattvsay we'll but also with an inval- 'hahle collection from the art and eth h6lcxtcA1 Standpoint of savage must. pal instfuments. idols, fetiches, grass
 weaving and Instruments of warfare.
 thiI in | paragraph Is the star Aling Accompl plishment of Frank M. Rapp, ' young American mining engi- heer, who recently landed in New York from his expedition, still shak- (pgs with fever.
 That the expedition Rapp was on Mns not . mere summers excursion Int. . hpapjtahle land is proved by the fact that the chief engineer and andkher engineer Of the mining com pqny which sent the expedition out wore killed by the natives. Both the Trench and Belgian governments. as . fe4ult Of the killing, have sent puni- five xpediticns into this hitherto un- !exrlored country to- hunt down the nAle9' Of the tribe who was responsible t1Efl killhng. ~,
 chpkess of the ereats tribe sof tho Ba4tus is the name of the new t<ihe that MT. Rapp and his party dis cpfer It iss all in one the richest. tllS laxiest, the most immoral and the \ mpet interestingA of all the tribes Of in- teSidr Africa. To get to 1t you have t6sSail up the great Congo river aas far AsFit is pc6tible to float anything on it, and dodge native bullets which come sasl thick sometimes as dozen to the mtle.s And after you can go no farther on the river 1t lis necessary tos hire a hundred or So natives and gowalking the rest of the way just as the famous Stanley did 50 many years ago. s's'sr.s.- --..-' >~-.- .~ ~.
 Live on Lofty Plateau.
 The country of these Dachokes is a plateau about 2,700 feet in the air. Only the river valleys are inhabited as the sections between the rivers are but little else than a desert waste The grass on the plateau is from eight to fifteen feet high, while that in the val leys only comes to the disgustingly low height of four or five feet. Here the Bachokes reside and here too reside some amazingly valuable dia- mond fields just how valuable and just how situated MT. Rapp refuses to gay for purely business reasons.
 < It seems that Mr. Rapp is about the only, one, with the exception of the pther members of his party, who knows, anything about this Bachoke tribe of the Bantus. When he came back to Gods country and sought From so learned an institution as the 6mithapniAn some information about the people whose guest he had recent ly been he was surprised even to dis may, to find 1t knew nothing to speak of concerping them.
 According to MT. Rapp the Bachokes afe . fairly wealthy tribe as far as wealth among the African savages goes. They are wealthy enough. the men are, to sit around all day and arn0lke and gossip, while the women work the fields.
 Al was the case with many an- Othor modern fortune the wealth of th3 Bachokes was founded upon the miafprtune and exploitation of their folI0w men. The Bachokes were the oFi9lnal sIave traders. They were at the source of the evil. Upon them Iit felI to attack the weaker tribes In fhi Interior of Africa and to take cap 'fiyo I'll lthAt they did not slay or leave 6ying of Wcunds Thess prisoners e| xeseed on to the tribes inhabit-
 ls s |coost, Nho. m turn at the great ! I;c oe e Paal Ioanda on the 2 s1t I'll t6am t0 Nugiish.