Show J MEN WHO lIVElNTBEEg 1 Discovery of an African Tribe Wht I Huh are inf 3Iid Air If Dr Louis Wolf who mat t national while I discovery a agotl ujfJe Cankurn River affordeofa 4 afforde a ioredkecr 1 and more easily navigated route to f Central Africa than the Congo made J another discovery in the course of the same journey which wa quite as re I mar able if not soimportant Ou banks < b-anks of the Lornami River far toward tbecentre of tfiecontinent he says he fQund whole villages that were bailtia I the trees The natives partly to pw 1 tect themselves from the river when la flood and partly to make it more difficult for their enemies to surprise 1 them build their huts on the limbs of the trees where the thick foliage almost t completely hides the structure from vitw i The inmates possess almost the 1 a4ilL y of monkeys and they climb up to or descend rom their little houses with astonishing ease It is believed they are the only Africans yet known who live in trees 1 in Borneo some of the natives are 1 said to live in trees and Mr Chalmers in his book on New Guinea tells of a number of treehouses that he visited oa t that island These huts which are 1 built near toe tops of very high trees are used for lookout purposes or as a place of reluge for women and children In case of attack They are perfect little f huts with sloping roof and platforms in front to which extends the long la derby der-by means of which the natives reacn the huts Mr Gill describes one or > these houses which was used as a res 0 idence He says it was well built but j that it rock d uncomfortably in tne 1 windNew York Sun |