A Horse In Tropl.-aJ Afr!w ; Several incidents of recent African ex-! ex-! floration call to mind the stories that ! witj told of the early travels of white 1 men in this country. A white man on i horseback is a very unusual sxctacle in ; tropical Africa, ami the annual Mr. HudUier rode a few moiitlis ago made i almost as much of a sensation as the ' horses that fortes introduced into Mex-, Mex-, ico. HovList-r s journey was a short one. intending only from Landana, on the coast, to Boma. on the Congo, but it U-d th1 travtrk-r through a densely neopkd region of which little is yet i "My horse," ho writes, "made a great sensation. At sight of lu'ui ail the , women in tho vukigi-s '-'-l first were pet-rilied pet-rilied with a-toni ..iiuient. They stood motiouless, with th?ir eyes fixed on the I strange animal. Coming to themselves 1 at last, with their hands raised above their heads, they raised their cry of j 'Ho, ho. hoi' expressive of boundless as-toniluuent. as-toniluuent. Some of them threw them-, them-, wlvcj upon the ground, smiting their i breads. Could it Ik1, they said, that such a great lieast, with a white man above him. was harmless? Such an ani-I ani-I tnal must certainly eat black people. "When we convinced them at last that - horse w;is h;tniih-.s and that he was a , very useful animal they ventured nearer. : They had no eyes for anything but the , horse. As we passed through the vil-, vil-, lages many of the inhabitants followed i us. The men turned back after a mile ! or ho, but many of the women, who j showed the greatest interest and curi-, curi-, osity. followed us for three miles. When 1 my horse trotted they trotted, too. their eyes fixed on the beast. Unmindful of where they were stepping they fell into the furrows in the manioc fields, and tumbled down in the tall grass. They kept pointing the animals out to the ba-i ba-i bies that were fastened on their backs. From some of the villages deputations caiuo to me asking me to stop a wlule in their towns that they might have time to admire the prodigy." j A whole menagerie of African curi-i curi-i osities would not excite so much atten- tion in the civilized world as this horse I aroused in a part of Africa where tho ' zebra never roams and no species of I the horse family Is known. New York I Sun.