Show I y I Scientific Young Explorer Brings Spoils from the Belgian Congo I NEW lEW YORK April 3 3 After After six years ears in the Belgian CO Congo gO with only one other white man James Chapin has haR returned to New York a n. seasoned explorer When he wont went away awny he was 19 10 With Herbert lerbert Lang Lans leader of oC the expedition and a varying number of native porters Mr Ir Chapin ChapinI has mado made a collection of ot such extensive exten exton- sive proportions that the American Museum of ot Natural History under auspices the expedition went will have to build a new wing for tor its installation Mr Ir Chapin has left behind him in inthe Inthe inthe the Congo ConRo a 0 reputation among the tho na- na which few tew white whito men have havo ac acquired ac- ac In handling natives and gaining the assistance of the Belgian military in the Congo Mr Lang has won the admiration of ot all alt naturalists and antI Mr Chapin is affectionately known among the negro tribes as asLang's asLang's Lan Langs Lang's s son The Te explorers left lett New York six years ago aso next 1 May Mr Lang took charge of ot collecting big game same while the task of ot collecting birds was Mr Ir Chapins By way of ot Europe they went to tho the mouth of ot the Congo where their reception by the Belgian authorities had been pre pro Then by rail and shallow draught f steamboats they worked their way up the tho river as far tar as C Stanleyville from which point the serious work of ot collection collection collection col col- col- col lection began bE an Anticipating the length of or their stay In the Interior the explorers carried with them a avast anAl vast nAl quantity of ot materials Make Long Hike Their first hike was from Stanleyville Stanleyville Stan Stan- to and their way led through the forests Twentythree Twentythree Twenty- Twenty three days of walking were required before the they reached this post and then for several months they worked o out t from it on radiating lines linen using the settlement as ns a base The expedition expedition expedition then went to where their work was carried ont in a similar simi simi- lur lar manner From this thin center they worked out of ot tho the Hurl forest into the flatlands about Wells Welle Uele in French By 1911 the explorers had penetrated penetrated pene pene- as far tar as Aba and two years later at they turned to retrace their route gathering the stored collections at each cach post packIng pack pack- inS Ing them and shipping them down to the Congo and to the outside world Mr Chapin reached the tho mouth of the Congo on December 11 1914 and has spent the intervening period trying to get et home Mrs Lang I Is in South Africa superintending tho the shipping of ot the remainder of or the tire collection about a fourth of ot which Mr Chapin brought home No Slaughter Permitted Before Defore I b begin to describe any of or orthe the tho animals and birds we found said sail Mr Ir Chapin I 1 want to explain fortunate that we were particularly in our dealings with the natives and had no trouble with them The Belgian Belgian Bel Del gian Ian government offered ua us every going to the tho encouragement even trouble of recruiting our porters at each station slaughter of ot wild Nor was any of ot animals carried on in tho the name namo science or the American museum of ot natural history We Vl killed comparatively comparatively com corn few rew of the animals In our collection For the they were vere killed by the natives for tor too food Under the these e circumstances whenever animal other large largo a rhinoceros ros or was killed tho the natives toW UK US about tho the skin and It and gave us tons obtained The most valuable animal Chapin le is the tho and anil by Lung Lang okapi of cf t which there thero are arc at present United States In the no specimens ns and antl only two or three in tho the museums museums mu mu- The okapi Is a n. of oC Europe about family m member of ot the giraffe much and with a the size of ot a pony shorter neck than the giraffe The ine body of ot this unusual which scientifically not was first described is Js deep lee more than ten years ear ago the are arc stripes of ot brown and on legs lega i white The Tho ears eara arc extraordinarily EXPLORER JAMES CHA PIN AND HIS PYGMY I I Irl rl I I 4 4 41 i J t. t 1 I S S Itt t i iw w U 4 c i. I. I L i f p. p I A- A large larse indicative of oC a remarkably keen sense of oC hearing and also ex explaining explaining ex- ex to some degree c tho the difficulty difficult of ot ove even ovon seeing one to say nothing of oC killing a n. specimen Get Strange Birds We Ye did not kill ours said Mr Ir Chapin and I am free to confess that I never saw ono one alive alio Wo We obtained four tour okapis from the na na- na tives The law allows us to bring out only two so that the tho other pair will go to Belgium Mr Chapin estimates that there are about birds in his hiM collection and I is optimistic about tho tIre number of ot new species included Work of determination will be le long ong and tedi teH- ous OUI Probably the tho most remarkable bird of or which he obtained marry many nan specimens mens an and much data Is the tho Sixty or seventy se feet above tho the ground the male malo builds a n. anest anest nest generally in a hole holo in tho the tr tree treo o trunk The Tho male bird then carries aloft much mud and walls his mate Into her hel little home l leaving l a hole only large enough h to I permit her hill bill to protrude Through h this he ho feeds her hor In this captivity nhe she hatches hatche her eg eggs 8 and does not break hrC forth until the tho young youn birds R are arc ready to fly Mr Chapin attributes this pe peculiar peculiar peculiar pe- pe culiar habit to the tho desire to protect tho the nest neat from monkeys and pre predatory predatory preda preda- atory a- a tory birds Another old bird Mr Chapin found was the tho weaver bird which constructs Its nest neRt In the tho shape of or u n gourd our with tho tire entrance at nil the tire bottom and arid a hollowed hollowed hol liol- lowed out platform at the to top 01 on which tho the eggs arc are laid and hatched He Ho de declared declared de- de dared that I hc lne e had soon HH as sunnY many a as nests nil all clinging to a n single lo palm 1 tree tH J never nV In tho the highest wind did h he witness the tho loss losa of an egg He lIe also altro described various forms forma o of monkey c cat cat- Ing eagles small birds but hut with enormous onor- onor talons talon and bat eating eagles that lint fl fly only In the tho dusk tusk all cai aio their food on the tho lie wing ving Saw No Atrocities I 1 saw w no atrocities he said nor nordin din dill I sec see signs ns of an any having been com corn I saw the tIre rubbery system In full swing and I can only sa say that hat the natives arc wisely governed nr and arc thriving n to a greater extent under Belgian Begian Bel Be- Be I gian Ian domination than limn they did under theold tho the thool ol old trader system stem the expedition Mr 1 Chapin saw tribes of oC n negroes and IJ pygmies each differing In language Tho Tire pygmies he lie said satI are tho the forlI foragers for for- lI agers for meats and caterpillars which the they exchange for vegetable and cultivated foods from froni tho the village e dwellers who wino the tho larger larer part of the tho taller tribes Caterpillars It seems constitute oneo ono one o 0 oi the tire delicacies of or tho the territory the territory the the caviar of tho the Congo so tiO to speak Both Doth the hairy variety varlet and tho the smooth til skinned ones oneN are aro eaten They rhuy are caught and smoked White hUo ants dr dried cd over o a slow fire form another dl dish h which Mr Chaplin Chapin declared was waR not unpalatable The pygmies ho said paid at attach attach at- at tach themselves to tribes o of larger natives na Ira- lives tives from whom th they protection protection tion and food Pol Polygamy gamy among the tho former Is iR scarce he said and among arnon lie tribal al people leople only by the th chiefs chief a. a Cannibalism Disappearing Cannibalism Mr fr Chapin says R is 18 rap rap- rapId rapIdly Id Idly disappearing Tho The tribes which have o the tire most recently i renounced this practice are arc the Medja l people In 1 1003 1903 03 an nn American n who came into their melt territory to establish a trading post was killed and eaten caten said eahl Mr oIl hapin Since then their there have been several cral incidents incident recalling the practice On ono one occa occasion ion a chief after having Li ought brought In h tax of or rubber left loft a n post lOSt with his hiM retinue On tho the outskirts of or flue post a n dispute of or sonic Homo sort port began nn and when the tire soldiers Investigated tort thc they brought In n. n native wino who declared declare ho had been tle tied the post alt all da day the chief had he lie personally per was to supply the rations for lor tire the homeward trip Another instance was told cold to me of or how a chef dc ule post hart had apprehended a n native murderer During tho trip to t. t take k the prisoner before a n. Judge n. n number num nurn her ber of or the tire murdered mans man's friends stopped the th party part and demanded nd d the person o the culprit because the they ir- ir r. r trued lIed what was wan the use of or allowing ln Justice justice Jus jus- tice ice to dispose of or rio 00 much valuable me meat n at t 7 There Theio has been lit little bet between tho tine ll and German citizens In th the section of South Africa where Mr fr wo-I wo worked ed Ho Ito declared that the news of the tire opening of the ivar hod had b bo been n r received ed at lt tire the wireless station on In tho tire roast coast st and brought to Stanleyville b by native In five days a dl t nc which generally ally required about a month to cover coyer |