Deseret Evening News | 1899-11-25 | Page 13 | A Land of Imps

A LA LAND O OP OF DIPS What an un modern sound b that of ofa a 0 land Cap tale Welbey Tho has been wandering In the InterIor of Africa declares that he found one there It is III called and nd I Is believed to bu be haunted by evil spirits Captain Welbey was IM warned b by his escort before h he passed Its limits limit that t he become the prey or of demons demon Re found It a most malt winsome country countr full of luxuriant vegetation and picturesque streams The first omen ut of danger perceived by Captain Welbey was the sudden ludden mad madness ness nelll of at one of his men This ante nale rushed Into camp n a raving maniac Other cn cases es ot of art an equally t terrible and ond dangerous sort ort soon followed tollow l The African who formed Captain ln Web s escort assured him that devils took hold of all who were watched by the Walamo Inhabitants while the they ate Ile lie He himself regarding these amazing statements lIts partook ot of 11 meal ameal before many who observed him nil all the while he declares with great fixity Afterward to his own I astonishment he began brgan to feel exceed exceedInglY exceedIngly I lie ds does not 1101 admit however I that b he went mad and as numerous explorations were werl subsequently made mad b by him he probably did not A eons blo solUtion or of the whole strange probe problem lem Is doubtless to 10 be found In some som malarial or otherwise poisonous con In ot of the land of horrors have thus Ihus tar far dogged the trend of British expansion In Africa but none perhaps has been en fraught with so BO much Impish mystery as Fawcett In Colliers Weekly