Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-25

! THE STORY THUS FAX
| ALLAN OtATERNtNrS. n famous African
on% n@'SF c 2pa 5 fortune se%fSr mho VI tRSr @
Is .!a!yited to attend dinner at a famous old
strike &HP Sb H&G%h. osd trsn&sp no H2' "Ra drs
H6In%s pfro9Trl e tHS ahni1 adpcee ,n n''''
LUNA HOLMES Is y young womenn, ot yg'nrt
brthnnrk In tho shape Of a moon on n'r
During tho cours. OF tho dinner Mss HolmGIS sTrIS
IH.iS Suatermain q m incident IN fSn,pt nSr NJ to
daTS T"n hr two s6aES ATgGs Sfse nfsf dinner II these
RGTTIS 6n SqE FantEy for HgoG GVuS,SrmaR by
~ Arab name AIaeumgzang ana aRS 6y PRO.
dgcInE snakes from his p9oksts TnS ARABS 10 rs
turn to Africa and XIII tho giant elep"nn''sou
eaSs'r WHEN the %lT &Fnbs hand him and sees g
ss @"in mist thS G!Sp1RRn ,Rs nSense, and secs
= chtdg9d place string ot sens On RGT SI, hs siny
the cidphant. and that Miss Holmes will come
to Africa. They leave and E'vs QpRSasTmHI!s pR6nna
a9qc"c. L is the strinE OF gems which Miss
;, That might Gueermaln dasoyySITIs yoIIsw, Nss bsa
H3mGs , wainF in her Sssp IN line to prcv@n.
Harut and MUrut from aoductinE the u"'""-
Wo later Lord RaEGT'l Eir'db sqTPEisSifi qRRPEnsii
disapPearcd from, from thSr boat on ne NilG LPnT E.
yd qTy9n fTn rFaTs WREn Snd crshcI %m Z 10 the Sn
Ragnaii to satisfy his wifes yagary. agreed
Eagnaii tells Quatcrmsin the details Of he ,Ris
Wdte dSg9nPrATanSs ana 1to e" "ibe Nile. To his
great smrprsS. 'GIt Quatcrman dscrsdta Tits theory
has BEEN kidnappcd 5 by the priests Herut and
Marpt, who, he thinks. regard her a" the 'r"e''
New horS iiiis Rpsnan and he nnancss 1" wis rs,
a small party OF natives they set out on their
pcrilous journey to kendah Land
CHAPTER ~ tContinued)
JETE TOOK with us small army OF Zulu
w bearers. This, although they We're diff
cult to feed in a country where no corn
could be bought, proved fortunate in the
end, since so many of our cattle died from
tsetse bite that we were obliged to abandon
one of the wagons. which meant that the
goods it contained must he carried by men,
At length we reached the banks Of the
river and camped there one night by three
taIl peaks of rock which the natives called
THE Three Doctors" where ! had in
structed the messengers to tell tho Mazitu
to send to meet us. For four days we re-
mained here, since rains in the interior
had made the river quite impossible,
Every morning | climbed the tallest OF
over it's broad yellow food searching the
wide, bush-clad land beyond I'm the hope
Of discovering the Mazitu advancing to
meet US. Not n man was TO be seen, how
ever, ana on the IOuILn evening" as inc
river had now become fordable, we deter
mined that we would cross on the NOR
row, leaving the remainng wagon, which
II was impossible to drag over its rocky
bottom to be taken back to Natal by our
drivers.
Here a difficulty arose. No promise OF
reward would induce any of our Zulu
bearers even TO wet their feet in the waters
of this River Luba, which, for some reason
that | could not extract from them, they
declared to be "tagati," that is, bewtched, !
to people of their blood, When | pointed
out that three Zulus had already un-
dertaken TO cross It, they answered that
those men We're half-breeds, so that for |
them II was only half-bewitched, but they !
thought that even so one or more OF them |
would pay the penalty OF death for his |
rash crime.
II CHANGED that this happened, for, as I |
have said, two of the poor fellows did die, |
though not / think owing TO the magical |
properties Of the waters of the Luba. This |
is how African superstltions are kept alive |
Sooner or later some saying OF the sort |
luhlls itself and then the instance Is re- |
and handed down for genera
tions, while other instances in which moth