| Show TRAMPED AfRICA SAW W ITS M MYSTERIES A Dauntless J English Explorers Story That beads I a Rider ard Novel HIS HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES a Il w ot I the graph r lph Ills Life petal orr nce Od Oct 1 tons lona QI a ut of the ho O 0 through th 1111 heart ut uC I astern ut at atthe eft lt the Ibe end nd 0 o which he dragged Into J the tho other tiny reeling fever and IH s a good dent nl morn than the tho cable rable tyre 1111 likely to U It nt mil this tune time ot of political flap For the tho eel cur who during the Iho greater putt t of at his trip tens by I allY man not only nix and man and succeed succeeded ed J In mites of country huh but lie he wont through ammo t that recap recall Rider Bider II rn In his most I OUTSET COlton who Is IH It II meu bex bel of the went 0 oft on this i I trip on Ida his ova re lIe lIeI I 1 started 1 from In Ill It In InI 1912 and for the tho I Upper r NII being n II ns for as Lake n III Victoria 18 by J r tob tho ot IiO armed At f Cobb robb turned hack taking Inking half the with hint and Powell Pow ell Cotton set ort oft on 91 hl lIh march i toward and through 1 the Upper Nile lIk and Lake the heart lit of I In which nG non Inon pro louly lad had sot to t I D lIY i TIme after arter tine he hall hod hON Leith the natives more than once ho he ex to be wiped out OItt nn ho expresser ex presser Neues It Tho however besIl a uncommon or of l teems mm to In have a pretty IU keen ln ot of humor vaa equal to tho lino oela occa occasion I sion flon and once saved n a mightily try hy ent tho In lie ho by b treating them to IL a selection on Eli hili This near the tho sh river about halt WilY Way and Albert Whon Iton anti three or of hla men win who wore tah ahead ad ot of the m right In Into Ito to the Iho midst ot of OO tully fully furk tuna ana who were herd ot of cant el eh These Theo were the moat mORl ho we to meet may the tho major mojor hc be beIng Ing the saml through h e them and co o heavily Tho shallot Woo critical for I lad no interpreter with me and tho Iho leant lellot sign or of fear would have been the tho for our Math death 11 soon nn IN we Wt were noticed the men collected round while the women and drove off 1 the tho Hocka Then the t n a man ot t great ato j I forward II mind 11 rl led 1111 mo mc under a tree I till not know what t It Was WOR proposed to de dern 0 t u rn with me mc hut but wo we nil alt expected to he be wiped out However It Was lit at this quint that Major Colton turned ou ids his trusty to the merry piping or of which the tho natives began to In dance dame and en 1111 things went on nn pleasantly until l the tho explorers interpreter Inter preter arrived and explained matters so that tile o made madeno no further trouble CottOn senN less however In the tho country tar tarther titer ther along tn In hIs lda h II ere ho ha Wo use mot met with n a most hostile t ter e While traveling through deem o became that the tho ul au hills were wre alive with armed men mentill menthe till the only sign of oC their presence beIng the glitter or of the lime vegetation ot of what I like Un tia hel o appeared P 1 1 and shone hoM In III the tho Nun kun light I 1 only three men with me anti and nil ns Vo 0 alto nearer I was prepared fur tOI an attack trop time Iho strange II II II IS when 1 saw Haw tyre all quite finite nak Ill rd it for n a curious h hind all dress I like kl It a h and covered beads lit at r IL ti molted ilkI till Thu All 11 were lIora miter rt feet t high I took every the tho major mind built n II round illy which End not nol conic up it II Willi sas well I did II hi so for that night there comae down In force orco and the en nip 1111 During the whole night ns 1111 on loo nl luta tho they attacked us hunt Bides with Ith grunt r lIt lit III did not Rue coed III hr Ihu I 1 lost two ot of m my men who ero to death dea th while several others were wounded I sot got nut oUI ot nt the country with all speed liB as I was In no position to u n further siege lit at their hands and of nr tOl ter n II prolonged march among unknown some ot of whom were ho I lime tho Post or of on the Upper Nile In June 1 in III his however 1011 ell Cotlon haul erase to 10 admire the loy ot of n a tribe At this time the explorer vas following tollo 1 II I In time tho route or of mi earlier tiro tho lender or of which End left large ot of stores In charge ot of the tho local chiefs Most or of these goods hostile tribes had ue ism looting the says II hut hilt qt It where had also been left by that tha t lion tho had so en true truo o 0 their trust that W was R actually lb III nt 1111 I Was told It hind hall been ever eer rune the stores End been left and tn In ot of two hills flute full tull fir of flour and othel storcK or which shire have U n n Un thele hind ml nN red o or o s sIN IN THE TIIE JUNGLE The Tho bind ally number or of from animals bunting on In south lauth vest dope or of Mt Ml enla he a s wn lost tor IL a flap In ht th the almost almost tot u forests atilt le can i inn ung ng A um fl fl c lere bY nn ot of presence 0 were and which was not Isi b hlo le till 1111 Ia aS hint him charging down on us u nl at eight A lucky y Khot of lr mimic er brought hint dove low II the Iho ball going through bin hll bruin And hili hie way war the tho region Mt I which h Imo nays teems with z brn anti End 1 brush hrush with l Early nI one morning on rising he disco erell less than ot Ih o I on the nut dorm In the hope or of get Iet thug n 0 shot hot nt at tient To Tn this lids lie hI rondo n II detour but In the melin time the tho waked up and die Cottone men mell SU eur l them OtH and prepared for nn an ut at attack tack LuckilY the major succeeded III ht warning tie tho or of their omit them nil nn noon lIoon OH nn he hc could Whet settle Rome quick shooting hy by all 1111 litmus hun put tour or l of at B ther tho rest i took ok to CI IETI IhY parsing through tho llie country thin explorer the tho nt rs mile p hunt ut nn Y white man hum hUll neon Tho natives nl at ways IJ have that these beasts I W N n lave their special 1 so to 1 seek butt previously title this lumi hlen Ills 1111 believed no nn traveler having hit hll upon such IL a place otton however Nays Hays I 1 now Caine upon n or of streams at tune foot of the mountain range mid found thiLl the whole I country round was WILS dolled over with several skeletons or of ole elc On Inquiry nay my guides told lold me 1110 that this IUS aae known aim LIS the tho Ilia place 0 where the como collie to die mind that the natives regularly congregated to cut tho from Iho I from tho ot ih but bUI had hod a ways refused to credit theta MA B the tho ino mOAt t or of the nit hew tribes which Maj Cot tot Iun discovered hits 20 modus ot of wore Were tM the HO clone chIM the eave dwellers rite rhe ma magicians who live midway be between tween Lake mind Lake Albert AlbertIn In e locally regarded us liS them ot of supernatural dad says the explorer are 1110 quite both In nail customs from any other tribe Their villages were re r Hum ot of anti grouped together In on Ih the upper slopes ot of tine the hill hili thc these o dwellings were con on with two the tipper Hoot being through n II dot dor dormer miner mer window reached trout line tha I grated ro u 1111 h by means ot of r II rude ladder At AI no other Point hove I 1 seen selm con coil siding g of oC two floors There people hI hag tn In tIe the higher lire are able too to g grow e o t corn while the II nt s i t mid In tile pIli Ins below are scorched hy by drouth rind yet nt In ht such are aIO mire these held that tine tha stars lag People below wino who outnumber cr tune the hill hili villagers by I perhaps 1100 to one have hao never been known knowlI to then These people hUll had never neer before Reel Keen n white intuit anti during the several days daysI Ilu lI lII I spent In hI their country they wore quite and us with food The Tho African c ve dw according to alaj lovoll Colton live lIe on Mount Blount Elgin not far from rain 1 e n II village Up tip the Iho northeast ur of I lids mountain 11 s a f he 1 nn y s N u anti found litany tut or the agree v the Inhabited I spout t c me e time I c It In Im tl nr Its or mfr these ed n It considerable number or of whom still exist In these hewn coven Under the tho ot old 1 flO the mid crill ot the CliVIS found them to the It III which these peo people pie live Both loth met men and women lomell are 1110 clothed In attics aud though exceeding exceedingly I ly timid were guile |
