| Show w QUI LIR SIGH FROM AFRICA affrica discoveries made by donaldson smiths party GREAT underground RIVER passage carved under it a mountain in somali land natives who cloak their hoods heads and faces bhea they eat destitute ikuto of F morality and frightfully cruel to I 1 their slaves land owners killed e new york feb 16 copyrighted 1895 by the associated press tho the associated press has received Ived the following letter from dr A donaldson smith of philadelphia in ili which tho the news of the lako lake rudolph Kuil olph east africa expedition to la given up to decerb 14 1891 the letter Is dated from the She beyll river near somali land ile he relates the details ot of its ills encounter with danjas wada dubbra an abyssinian ruler who had exterminated or enslaved en ilavee the na five gattia and who prevented dr smith and his party from the doctor writes da dubbra proved himself to ie be one of 0 the mie funniest and wittiest old men imaginable his hia wife and daughter and principal female slaves had bad their brows browa removed and large laree crescents tattooed in blue blua ink over their eyes they d do 0 not cook their meat but cat it immediately the animal Is killed they always conceal their faces when eating catuns or drinking and the tight eight ot of a lot ot of squatted about a dead bullock with their cloaks thrown completely over their heads Is very amusing amus lne they hilve have many curious customs estonis us tonis such a thing thine as aa morality Is unknown among them they seem to delight in cruelly treating their slaves I 1 ave frequently antly seen been young girls kicked and beaten for quite trull ng offenses we made a A rich discovery on our way south couth I 1 had heard ot a river that ran under a mountain where the groat crat god of 0 the gallas waco had carved a place for himself As we were not far from it mr gillet and I 1 made an excuse thai h at we wished to shoot elephants which abounded there we made a hard push and in d to our surprise discovered the most beaul lut subterranean P assade it would would be e possible to imagine PASSAGE A larre large tributary ot of the alver juba had carved a way tor for itself under a mountain a mile in length on the other side of 0 the stream edream were great v vaulted a oiled chambers from froin I 1 25 to feet high and supported on massive columns the columns were into most t ornamentally a carved by the waters and many would arm long arched passages the mountain liln was hollowed out it a great distance on ahe abe other side of the tream stream which I 1 have named the cave of Whid lawn LAND OWN KILLED OFF the greater irr part ot of our journey has been through the richest country from an agricultural point of view I 1 have ever seen aein and the climate would suit a european nur farmer thre there are signs ot of much previous cultivation but alrtle land is cultivated at present tho the owners have bave been killed oil off as Is evident by the human skeletons lying a about F for every ry village that Is inhabited there are at least six that are without owners all about these villages there are large laree areas that were highly cultivated live years ago slid and evea more recently before the abys slit lans grabbed the land and slaughtered the natives we have a long journey before us and it will probably be several months before we reach lake rudolph A DONALDSON SMITH |
