| Show 1 I N M 0 M B AS JL A ASA JL S J A JL JL I T THE QUEER AND CAPITAL ITS CURIOUS OF BRITISH INHABITANTS EAST AST E AFRICA L i I t ty y J I Copyright 1007 1001 by t l Vink a Carpenter 1 l have hAe left thi th i l Oaky okY it M of ot t Arabia anti am inn now flow f on Iho of vt Ib unit naif down the const coast ot or it Kant EaRL just ho Iho I fittin J tor tol whore old kt Mother r earth Is 1 widest and nini thickest If It I J should stick a 1 t tIn pin pili l In lu thu old OltI ladya WRist waist und go so west weSl westward ward in III n line 1 I would soon rench the tho upper end of ot C Lake Inke J JUl and n a little tHet would out on r Y tho th Atlantic a n tin th Congo V Crossing that grunt CI al my II I I place would ho he South i at nt jho tho ho mouth of or o the Amazon and 1 i up UI the Amazon nl OJ 1 pans pails pa Quinto In ii on my 1 way to the Prom From on 1 tho th J trip to t tI IP pin tuck stuck In at It Morn Mom basa would comprise 16 10 or morn more thou nand of ot water travel I should i crosa the Pacific 1 antI and Indian ocean i and the tho only solid ground lOund on the way ny l l tumid 0 II tIlI If I ho Im ttO of or 0 Now New o II I nu r Borneo lund and Sumatra Suma l EAST KAST l AFRICAN Al nATI 13 F This place Is M far Car bolo below Iho thu latitude of Philippine anti Is a Just About a n day dAJ i JY ship north of ot Zanzibar H Jl 1 II hit 30 I days from ow York and yet Jel it 11 may h ha 1 easily MIlY and Thu Tho through fare far from roam the tho States on ij ho itt best bL be t t would not bo over lver and arc itic JC boats from roni London that hint the ho trip In 1 I days at It a 1 f coat of Ot Tho German T ant Africa l ca I lint which has hlll going around tho the continent of or Africa han hAR a 1 f Mi into att of from frani Hamburg to 10 W L sa ra und and tho has a Il ser Ber tr from roni lo which costs ju just t ii 25 less I i Jn In thine me are French iJ bod toti ts that lint call hero here on oi their way from J r 1 to U le and there arc are occasional from front Adon anti and the thc Suez Sue canal which are arc tIll athI cheaper X MY trip hero was waR mado on thin tho Ocr Gel Gern GeltL tL n n East African lino itne und the accorn accommodations wet 10 o fairly Rood good gO ld Our decks were vore covered with canvas we wo had olee t L fans faim In lii tho cabins and other f 1 arrangements for the tho heat J of or tropical travel I 1 bought hoUghl my ticket i to tp but afterward arranged with tho the captain by b tho payment of ot a afew tow few dollars more In oro to tn make It read to Belia in Portuguese East Cant Africa which c la about two weeks of here hero This allows mo Inc to atop ort oft at nt tho the parts ts and haves moro more titan than 50 In the tho passage money The Tho buying of nt through tick lick tickets ets etti with stopovers is the tho best het way to travel this coast CIRt Tho The German Last 1 African line lino haa hns ha boats beats every overy two or thren weeks and I shall lII not be de do delayed Ined by tho the transaction THE HORN Or OI EAST AFRICA Havo Hl vo yon Poum ou ever ver heard tot of tho great Horn Ibm of at Africa l It is tho tha easternmost point of M the tho continent anti and It ends In Cape It begins at nt the tho Strait of b and runs for seven Boven or 01 eight hundred miles out Into the theY Y Indian ocean It was along this horn hom that I traveled In coming here hore Leav Leaving Leaving ing Ins Aden wo first skirted British a thinly populated dc demort ort coun country country country try mu t big lg as ns a Georgia mud and then thel sailed for hundreds of ot miles along other des ties deserts erts belonging to 10 Italy The Tho Italian Italiani i begin some distance before Quo ono reaches Cape Wo We 0 went quite to the capo cape and rounded U ll starting south It Is IR n II mighty bluff blurt al at almost i most t straight up Irom rom the tho blue wa water water Waters I ter of or the tho Indian ocean UK Its sides are of black rock ragged and rugged nod Us HI to tOP tOJ Is ts covered with sand There 1 Is Ism wand sand m at nt HH foot and ad the titO sand Rand has hus hasin lodged l In the crevIces making yellow against tho the black background c 4 the tho cape extends Bandy lIand hills i roll one over the other othol until they 1 In III tho the distance e The Tho country I Is Itt desert and neither trees I bl habitations nor animals animal are aro to tobe tob be b bc wen en rm Tim Tho hang hanff low over OCI the runs and out at sea Ilea the thu air la i as liS AH it i s that of Virginia In April Going a n J Jf on we wo rounded horn f and looked hack back Tile The great blurt bluff had now flow the tho Ih outlines of mit a Il tileo op lug Ing lion Jolt I with vl lb It itH till In the so itt tIlI lII lions linns head wan Willi tUt lost and nil II there was 1 only a II L great rock rouk like a I fortification straight up tip front from the lh sea lieu AU ALl J 1 ONa TO ro Sailing wo about aboul a miles nilles n a dry nOd ilus erl coast before wo we l the Ih Julia where whore h begin Italian I III ill II I la Is about lit UI big hIli a ut III Montana It Jl cin l tn of ot a strip of nt desert desort ort us as wide i IL as from New Nt Yolk lork QI to lu alit u US long ax II from Philadelphia to 10 t Its lit pupula tion Is 10 mantle made up umit of und mind tall straight black who alto largely In touts antI and drive flocks about from place to 10 to place to pasture An As far fai as nil I tan cummi the thu country Is III 11 wort this Is tru trw of it l on time Ih fled Hed sea I ea only other possession im on thi thiu Sho h tried to lo get rt Abyssinia hut but h or wore WON di lIl tented by Menelik and I am tUn told nho Rho has now her h r eyes oyos on II Tripoli which whelm lies Just over Lime HIP nay J from At it t present with the tho exception of or Abyssinia tho time whole of ot I all Africa Afric belongs b to lo time iho great groat powers of ot Egypt and nile tho the Sudan which are aro 10 ii 11 times ax as big us the time eta state to of or Colorado aro nr practically controlled by bJ the Iho British und and the tho sanio Is 11 true of or this great eat protectorate where I now am which Is 15 moio molco than 10 time lines as nil big as the lie stale of ot Ohio A few tew niles miles below here hei on the tha other side of or the tho river lie tho German Kast Ea t Africa begins That territory Is I 10 times ns us big as RII Indiana It runs several H hundred miles along tho coot cost and below It Is Port Portuguese Fast East Africa which H is 10 II times the HIP size of or South Carolina South At Af Africa rica Ilen mi nil empire or of Is IR a IL 1 i possession und and John Hull Built has hUa great greal territories In Ito tho central part of or the continent With the tho exception of or Italy laly and Portugal the tho powers aro nr J doing doln nil alt thoy thy can cnn to Improve their territories and many Important de tie development projects are under tinder way wa which I shall describe during durin my tray trav travels lIa els cIs THE THC ISLAND OF A AI I find tomba refreshing after my myong nn long IonS ong stay In tho the desert So o tar far the tho most of or my way tray through this contin conlin continent ent eat has hins been beon In the sands with only a n patch of ot green now and then 1 I Iwas was close to tho the Sahara In Morocco and I traveled many hundreds hundred of ot miles over It while In Algeria and Tunisia Tunisian In n Tripoli my eyes eye ey wore made soro floro by bYtho bythe ho tho glare of or tho the Libyan and an anth heir th lr dust blew across tho the Nile valley luring during my m stay sta in Egypt anti and the Brit sh huh I h Sudan Tho The Arabian desert was wason wason wason on both sides sidell of ot o us as IS wo vo W I came camo down the tho Red fled sea and anel Its It sands several times lime sprinkled the tho ship Wo We had the rockiest of all nil deserts in southern Arabia and that of Italian J was Wl not any better beller The Tho surrounding horo hOre remind me mo of bf Solomons Solomona song All nature seems joyful Tho The rain has conquered the sun and 1 thorn era aro mos vines vincI and trees everywhere Tho The shores of tho the mainland are aro with cocoa cocoanut nut iut nult wo we have on III mighty loaded with green groen and even ovon Its ts cliffs chiff are moss crown rown This Island Is in fact a jungle of 01 o green on a foundation of or coial coral It Is III only a mile or so 50 In length but It ris rill rises rilles rises es well UD ut out of or the tho sea sell and Is so ISO o close elo to tho the continent that ono one cnn can almost hear the tho wind blow through tho th groves roves over oer the way On tim the Island the jungle haa hlll been cut cutup cutup cutup up Into wide roads There Thero Is a lively town Lown with a polyglot population at al ono one end of It and tho the hills hum are spotted with the iho homes horne of ot the British officialS There Thora aro two good harbors harboro a II little ono one and a n big hig one The Tho little ono olle Is Isn In n the tho main part earL of ot tho the town and alith In Is frequented by b small craft The other othor could hold all the tho ships that sail tho the How Europe Is Swallowing the tb Continent Something About Italian ItalianS S and anti Other Foreign Possessions Around the thc African Horn How Cape Looks Old eM and the tb New Ne Towns T ow ns of o Among the th SwahilI V 1 1 4 I t L LM Lf r d i j i 4 1 f M TW Hi c S i S t 4 JJ I S 1 VIEW OF OP THE LAW COURTS ARE ABE TO THE RIGHT EIGHT Photographed for tOl tho News by Frank l G Carpenter C 1 h hU n east cast coast coaH and tho the people say hero here heroit hereit It it is In to 10 be bo the tho great port of or this elds Elde id idof of tho the continent The Tue blur big harbor Is called a II word that menna menns deep water It has only a ii low fow ware warehouse house louse shells sheds and iv a 1 pier filer above It and tho the main settlements nrc across the Island four foul miles away awo It was Willi in that I landed and that under difficulties Our ship was WIlS anchored far out ou t und our was Will taken on shore In native boats I found the tho main quay crowded and hall ind my boatman go 0 direct to tho the ens cu torn tont house and let us out on the beach The Tile custom house is a little shod about Jig big enough for ono one cow It Is situated high bight up tutu above aboe the lie water and trunks laid hUll to bo be carried In upon tho the beads ie td of negroes The Tho water Vater came earne up to their middles middies tout but nevertheless they the waded through It and took both us and out baggage to tho the land hand The Tho customs examination was lenient Tho The officers looked through our trunks for fOl guns gun and ammunition nOd and warned us that wo we 0 could not nol hunt elephants and hip hippopotami without a n 2 f license A lit littie It tie later tho the negroes took tonk our nUl trunks and carried them about a quarter tar ter of n IL 1 mile to 10 time the top ton of IL it hill hili where wo aye sot rot ot the earn cars for or A HUMAN Tho The word cars carR savors of electricity or steam Tho Thu cars carl I took were run ron by mono mon Hero Here In East Enst Africa human mus mUtt muscle musco cle co forms the cheapest power Tho The wages of the natives run from 6 G cents a n day dllY upward and In tho the Interior there are arc many who will wll olk all day for tor 3 cents crits Tho Tite result Is III that tho ho trolley cars care are aro pulled by men Koch liach consists of ot a n platform plat about as big bigas as us a Il kitchen table lable with wheels under underneath underneath neath lenth anti and an awning overhead On the middle of or the platform Is III a bench accommodating two to or tour four persons The rhe wheels run on a track about two Jt t In width and each car Is it I DU from behind by ono one or 01 moro bare barelegged barelegged legged and bareheaded men who lUn run lUnn runas ns as n they thoy shove it up hill hili und and down There are such car tracks al nl over oer thin th Usland island with switches to tho the homes hornes ol o oth the th various officials There are aro private p vate curs cars well welt as public ones urn nn every ono one who tho Is la any anyone ono one huts has his ow private car with his coolies to push him to rind and from work VorK At 1 the th be IN beginning ginning and closing of ot his office hours hourn which are aro from 8 until 12 antI and from tron 2 J until 4 tho the tracks aio UIO filled with willi riding In state slate to the tho govern government ment merit buildings OLD I wish I r could show you Jou this old town tOn tOno of o It began before Colum Columbus Columbus bus discovered tho the citizens can hiow you the very spot whore where Vas Vaut Vasco co da tin Gama Garna landed when whon ho horn here u nH un H Irom India shortly after ho discovered tho thio now route roulo to 10 Asia by thin tho Capo of ot Good Hope Ho Un landed hero here In HUS at lIl Just about tho the that Columbus was making his third voyage to 10 Amen Ameri America ca cn Even Eoll then was Vot Di n a 1 city Cult da dl Gama GItmuL describes it A little later lutter it became be amo thu tho tim property of tIm tho and ani about yours years after that time they built a fort foit lucre hero a I part of or which Mil still stands It has hils been rebuilt rob aUd Is III now used by the British as us a n aprison prison After the Portuguese were driven out tho Arabs held lucId tho the Island for tor many years and It U was Willi an un Arab ruler time the Sultan of Zanzibar who owned It when the tho British h camo In It stilt still till belongs to him In a II nominal way WilY Ito him leased loosed It to the tho British for tor I much a I year Jear and floats above tho Iho British flag everywhere on the Island TIm Till CAPITAL OF BRITISH EAST EASTAl AFRICA Al Notwithstanding this lease really belongs to the tho British and the thu British can force time the sultan sulLen fiul tun at any uny an line limo to t give Ivo thorn thom a n clear olear title to It II IL This is in what whal thin tho Germans have hae dono ns us to German East Africa und what whal tho the British will vili probably do at sonic time In thu tho future As It Is ts now thu the place is 18 the capital capitalor of or British East Africa Africh It has hall tho ho chief government buildings bl including time tho treasury and law In courts and the tho prison ns well willi The rhe town tom hlll now no iiO about nb ul und and lilt of or lesS IR ato Europeans There are arc nr altogether about a it half donen different Inhabited by b it b I dif class of ot or 01 Africans There Is I nn tin Asiatic mercantile quarter a t quarter a 1 largo large IU t vii vil village 11 which Is III lage lagI and ne a I street utmost European lit In character There are two 1110 hotels which claim to be bo first class nn run English club tho tio flank Bunk of oC British India I 11 n and nud n LI number of or stores The lh pee poo pie lilt of or the city anti of or nil ull shades of ur yellow black and bi brown own anti lIld they thoy the come 1 from every oelY part of the tho African coast i iso KOMI so m I But Thit first lot me give you rou seine nomo Idea of nr tho tilt who havo conic come here lucre from Arabia Hast East India The Tho Arabs wear turbans and gowns gUng and imd constitute hn tin Important clement element of at tho tile community They Time fhe wore were formerly slave traders and until the lie British took look hold anti built hullt tho tue Uganda I railway they did liti dida litia a II big business lIi In toting Ivory Ion down from Lake Victoria and another other parts parl of ot central Africa on in tho time heads 1 of or slaves selling both slaves anti ivory lucre hero at tit This business has halt all bOon been done lone away uway II with Ith and tho tIm ivory now cornea comes In lit on Oil the tho railway S As A to the tho 1 Indians they lucy ai |
