Show 1 the Ile remarkable ruins round found among the huts or of savages bava ees the readers rea lera of mr Hag haggard gards a new stor tory she sha will remember that when his tittle little varty ot of adventurers pasted passed in their boat from the sea into an all E east a 1 african river they found on the bank a of 0 stone that had bad evident ly y been a solidly constructed wharf in some remote period in 1 a I tool foot note he be justifies this conceit by alcad ing to the ruins ot of a very ancient city on the coast at cilwa south of zanzibar it happens that COO miles nearer this region in in which he las placed his story there ther therease eare are evidences of a past civilization that are incomparably greater than those be men eions some way south ot of river kiver there thera is is a large larga ceilon apton extending from the sea nearly miles inland and to miles toward the south in which ruins are constantly being discovered proving that in prehistoric thues the country was inhabited by a civilized depole to day only the rudest black tribes inhabit this ibis land savo save in i n a few places whore where the portuguese have established stations the little beehive huts buts of the natives are seen among massive ruins ruina beto fening a degree of architectural skill which rivals that ot of the anci ancient on t az Z tees our knowledge of those to enins ido is is still tar far from perfect porfe ct OUT earliest records of travel and trade on the east african coast extending back to the beginning of tho the christian erido not mention fi them only in in recent years have the travels of selous scions erskine Lr mauce balnes mohr and oneill revealed to us the mona mental evidence this country con COD bains a d the coast town alais shown on oil maps of last east africa near that town carl mauch found extensive ruins enins remarkable for their enduring nature and strange shapes there are partly ruined walls still thirty feet feat high and twelve lost feet wide at the bare bano bill built it of small hewn blocks of granite in these walls sometimes fifteen or twenty feet feal from the ground are om em bedded one end of blocks of stone eighteen to twenty feet long which were evidently used to support gal lerios lenos here and there built in the walls or standing by themselves are round stone towers which evidently rose to heights of thirty to fifty feet similar masses of masonry are ara found at as far as a miles inland and a little north near the coast it is is not positively known yet who milt built these ancient structures no rained Led has visited tai them sm and no do search has baa yet been made for inscriptions though oneill says saya he ha has las no doubt from what he be has re bently heard board that there are ara numerous aa inscriptions ionson on the ruins about manien manica all these ruins ruins are surrounded b bs surface Bartuca gold old mines minea it is believed lettl all this cola country latr y was occupied some time before the chriatian era by a great colony probably of ehte bician bician origin and that its is chief mccu pation was gold mining mr oneill says that these numerous ruins rains are neatly as well preserve ed as tho those g 0 of ancient egypt and better than those of assyria some day no doubt they will be ba system Syster Dat at icalla studied their existence shows conclusively that a large region in in inner inner africa now given up to savage men and wild beasts and subject many centuries ago to the control ol of a people who were con considerably ad danced in in the arts of civilization belv york talk suit |