| Show ii Features of f Life and T on on 1 0 1 V T 0 RIA NY ANZ A The Greatest of the 1 1 f f fI di J J t ti I in iRti Tiri J ni IY i How LaHe Victoria Outranks f I Ia ae e Superior Su It is the Biggest l l FreshWater Body of the World Where It Is and What It Is IsNow IstL Isi J tL i ii j Now Noci Navigated by b Steamers r iL COP i lulu iDs IMS ob by y Frnnk G k N Jum out 0 your nUl straw hate hat h h and nid pith hel III helmot mot lck up Ul your our white hIte cloth clothIng clothIng r Ing ng n a ml nU thin ir and tI fly lly II with me m to 10 the heart hearl of t r tilt the black blacki i nl for fol a fI trip over uel t I he lie biggest tSA tl lake ot of the thc world Wo Vo o uru urt i on un the he I little ii t ti Sybil Sybi I fur fr out ut lilt In Ira I Victoria with w I Ui lh till t lit I no nowhere q where In tight The Thi fh hit bit water of or the tho theIn In 1110 I lie he CM I t tin Id nil 1 on Oil ol till t I I l 1 li It itS of ot 11 US l fis fatS far n lI IK i our III I I can I II ld and thorn the 11 1 ii I j l III In Iw I Homo Som of ot the 1 high and rocky mcky Othet s sire are bt i l with V Ith wn tn I 4 anil 8 lipil of ot hued with KII birds t h huge hUIt Ii hi I wh A bobbing inny be Lf scan II II as WI they Ih 1 I UI fl near r the ro IN lx I GULF How t delightful I It I t IB In i Wo V are ii r right t cm Oil ii I tilt lie hul lUt tho tl II air IH ts i UK us cool HII UK nt in u 11 or r m u QUI our grout j hIp III hi navi IIa the Invigorating hII of i those t i Id Ii 1111 E EC wo I l C tool 1101 ship gil hiI It p nt lit 8 t l ene t hn mi hen ly i M Wt going h nuked 1 ui kii mi 1 our nui bunt I H I t WI ac as loaded by ij b u tt gang gt I i of or o f i lud liil In and that t out ul tJ respect to toi thu tho tIu The Uganda da l railway brought us its right lI ht down to 10 C the th Iii lake Illk I and 01 ii naked I u out on on We VP hov luv tow the blacka sang an its till boy thc worked w iu ked and 1111 beautifully o we WI u could St 1 oC piny bilLy ot 01 It li ts as so thy they Ih the tiit to IC Iho bib ship C e were ti o all ull I afternoon counting OUt I the tho Guilt Gul of ot o lo before 1 wo ll lb Ib Inko proper prawn end OUI our WilY tuly was In III Inand and out lilt of If volcanic hills for roi n U of t mile Tho Iho gulf Is I over oer 10 00 miles I and 14 miles whit wide und anol It Is Iu II lined with m nt hills all 1111 the tho way wn Some Homo ot of Ottile tile the p thc tho sky III some arc round mund 01 d and some but bill bul L nil all are III it re Is It especially so StI at itt the south At Al the iii north the tite country It III I low bov lower er CI and Its Us hills lire spotted with straw w Villa Tho Jho null gulL has hall many Islands I 1111 It H liar nar liarI I W UK nt It I t hOes goes Inland I tu und U It II I t Is also ul o 1181 1 LV at the entrance where there thero are ure islands of a If f curious N forming u n grout chain ehia I i u which seal to 10 I a nh lit out ant tho Iho he hike Our first night was spent in lii trout front ot or Island which Is about 1 out nl c hour from from Port Florence 1 It IL toeing being unsafe to In Ill runny patIn art of ot th ae little known by hy night VICTORIA V A Hut before I T go so let Jet me toe toll tall tollI I rou ou ott thin miGhty Ari Crl I imn lake Inko Sitting at home III In America with tho thu snow In tho air Itil and andall nil all iou the tho at ot modern modem civilization than tion about ut you on It la Is hurd to realize where and Just it IH The TIll lint Hat TRI Ki give one on but little Idea hINt of ot the actual conditions I iko lies lien Ih In Lii the thu heart of ot o Africa Alone the line of ot the equator on which we now 1011 an arc it Is I bO 00 miles rollIs or about o till fur as all from froni Now New York to Toledo full o oto to the tho Indian ocean Going westward the tho same line It Il la iii I over twice a arar to the Atlantic It I III only a I fw mile hubs to C the tho north n rth or of UH us Unit ioU the NUu XU Hows out on It Ite wn WIL down to th tb Medi Mediterranean 11 sell sea and by its windings tho tite It io I almost 1000 mile It It lu over VIr mo mlle miles In III a II line Iii soutI i n t to Lip the lh lie l oC of Good Hope l Ie and Ju jUst t ii Yil sc 1 huhs mil by Ity the bite railway to tot tol toti tl M l i oJ Kit whon I entered thi ii JIlin iH It o I Africa 1 J am only a II I few tOI mile the lie I head waters of the Ih I he Kongo 1 ind nui a from the ha I southern of ur VIC 11 iru I c Uiko li b by a 0 milieu of less than 20 JO IO miles und midway on that lake lIuk get Into hilt n to branch of or the thu and Ul HOat down dawn to In the tue II lieu seu eu THAN LIt LAKi i haxe hll VI over most 1110 11 of ut the great lakes bakeR of the lie orld 1 I know those of our lilli own country wc H lI Wl o othus thus thoo of ot Europe South America I Ilane lane have i ro bed lw Lake 11 which lieu lies two tWit and miles aboe the till sea lien seaon CI CIon on OIL the lie lop top ot or tho the Andes Anes and have haxe scull neon till the jen sea which IH is II a II quarter of ot a II amile milt mile below belol the tile level of lit the ocean on the th Idse odge ot or c the tho Holy ly Land Omitting the Caspian SeLL sea Victoria 1 Is I hit tho biggest lake of the lie world It 11 IB Is the tho largest l holy body of t fresh frosh water on 00 earth outranking Lithe Superior by about 1 square miles If It you yott could coul pick It Ull Uli and spread It over tile the United State It would cover the tue whole ot or South Carolina or Ol dropping It Into Now NowEn En It II would drown the tho suites states late of or Massachusetts Now Hampshire lI Voi or Rhode Island aind Connecticut It Is ii tho the size of ot either Kentucky Virginia or Ohio and is iii moe than half a U as largo large as nil all alt of oC our great Riet lakes la kel combined It U 1 is 15 times limes as nil 5 big iii us Lake Brio r e and It If one ono could 0 i 0 ir iru irI u t I 1 1 i I J S I II I I h l i iI u T TI TI I I L I k 12 THE SYBIL AT WHARF PORT POET FLORENCE Section SeI BOllt In III i II Corner Is I One 0 lie no U by Stanley III In Na Lake I a he Victoria V I ci orba n S u U hU N put pUI Lake and Luke Lake Huron Into litto om vile hotly hod they would w cover about the tite same suie surface This Pius lake Is twice ns us big as Its Tanganyika kit it Ii It Is I only oid half us its long lOlliA and It I lid uld It I t has three times the tito ana of or It Lake Chad which lies away oft off to too toolie the thc lie northwest st bOIc II the tito Kiench Kon Kongo I ort go o on Oil till the ho southern edge odge of ur the tIll Sahara Lake Li ke Victoria Is almost uhn it t In shape Tanganyika Is 1110 n CI long narrow trough rough between high hills Is III long and nut narrow row so 50 arc Lake und Albert Alhert at lit the north Victoria Nya za Is It more Ilko our own Lake Superior than any of the other Great bodies of ot fresh h water It II lies in inthe Inthe inthe the highlands and might be 1 said Hahl to be Ill beon Illon beOn on the roof Ioor of at o the tho African continent as is lu on the 1111 eastern roof of ot ottile tile tho North American continent Lull Lake Victoria Is JI however more than titan six times as al high up ui In III tint thu air nh as ns Inke Litko Superior hid more inure than seven soven times ni as n high as its Huron Hitron or 01 Michigan It II Is about 1000 feet above alJo the sea Sl a and Is with within in GOO lO feet ot of the tue altitude ot of tho the Great Hoenl Salt Sal t Lake VIII As s to 0 the tho depth of the lake hake Its hot bot bottom tom has not been heen carefully surveyed but their ale itie Places which measure over 1000 feLt feet This Is II about three times limes the tite depth of oC I Inke Erie but 1 ut not nearly nearby so deep deop as Lakes Superior t Huron and nul Michigan an This hlll luke lake has lets n a I mighty vat vol 01 Unto of Ut water Us ItS surface rises itse 10 or 01 tiO Inches dining some years eus Tho Is so SI great that haLt u a I dum dant might b tie placed at It tho the of II the tue Nile and give II water for Irrigation toll for vast territories along the course ot of that i Iv Ivor or 01 which auto now hutS undreamed of oto As AH Asto AHto Asto to this matter however I will wll write In Inthe the future J BLACK aLACK AFRICA I Until within the past few tow thus this legion IRlon was of ot tho blackest lit parts of ot tho tilt African continent Slavery Slaver was common everywhere arid and cannibalism life No one know there then was ns a It take lake I lucre heto ar ii r nil all until ISS when tiie Ills dis discovered covered the southern shores siimes and anol wo Wa had no ito 0 Idea Idell of ot Its extent until our own Ottil henry Honry M tt Stanley went aroun the lake Jak In As 14 It Il Is now tile the only Inhabitants aro 1110 those these queer tribes holls of at African natives who vIm In eel CN regions legions aro still warring with ono 1110 another I T have described the linked some SOllie of their queer cus customs toms North of lIe Victoria tire arc natives who are aro as 1114 far fal different from them thorn as its n we o Americans are HIO different from the Ju or our Chinese On the tho south Kouth are lire other othel tribes with other lithe customs and 1101 tho the whole lako Is surrounded by hy a n dozen or mum more dif dlf different ferent frent peoples p each differing diCtating from nil 1111 tho the others III In anti and In III Lher IheI guides grades or of civilization NAVIGATING JAKE VICTORIA VICTORIANo No Ni 0 boat had ever avel 1 1 boon been hOI n seen on oil tItis hike Inke until S II I uno and he ho was vas told bitt that the lake laho was Willi 0 oi largo lar that It would tako jours cu rio to 10 to go it that hiLt the tho itt boat WIo oCio such lIuch ns as wo we W now 1111 see IO used by tile the natives of oh boards board sewed together with fIber of the tho palm and 1111 CUll can only bo lioi I kept from sinking by b i Industrious baling I saw haw many of ut thorn then at ut Port and they the used more or less los till all around tho th lake inke lul l The Tho average boat hout is 25 2 or 01 more feet long Jong Il n three feet wide wille anti two feet cut loch deep It Is made without wit nails nut or any 1111 lion whatsoever anti Is II tilted with sills sails It U Is easily capsized In n II storm at ut which 1111 the hue boatmen often Jump jumbo outside anti and lold on to 10 the thi rim rim of or the till boat huat to In keep from front sinking Kinking until the tho th l storm In iii I over o f 1 Stanley mode a Il big t which he lie called ailed the tite Lady Lul Alice Allee lie started at Speke gulf and allot by liy using n II sail all gradually made hH his way wa around ct co coy many of o the at which I J Ishall shall hall call en farther on 1111 In III these Journeys At t present there then are 1110 four foul little steam its eis I to the on jako Victot Ia One Ono of is III the tho Sir Wil William liam which was WIlS brought up from tile the ocean In lii pieces before the tho Uganda railway was lOS built and bern hor put together It Is IR still In commis cominis commission sion and Is used by b till the of oC ns ut a I sort wort of ot II a dispatch boat Tho Tue Th next two steamers uro 1110 the tho Sybil s each cacti of or about GOO 1000 tOilS tons mid and the other othel Is tho th Slit Sir Clement lull Hill which has tons tont and which wal aa launched last year Tho Sybil and Win In II I are all sister er ships They Pile make regular trips around the tho take lake in III con can connection with thu hiti th Uganda railway the thu voyage from port to port requiring hunt hout n a 10 It days hyo It la If 1 upon tie the Sybil that 1 inn ant writing this letter lettel letterA A STE I could I show you this little African n steamer It If it could l he be e taken up antI transported to ono Oil of our Am Aiti American or dropped down upon Lain I Huron or 01 Erie Eric It would not seem scent much out of place for tOIl tho the still la tu jut JuH about tile the us Home used on our lake Tho Thu differences lie Ilo in tho Iho people and tho thi management This flits Sybil moves by b a n screw SCIe It has hils a I t smoke stack in Iii the center and two tSO masts before nail and nailI behind I with a on deck It U hits has about nb ul u a dozen cabins with a dark little I dining saloon In the rear The rho cabins lIre aro lighted I Tey by y ouch each tins has hasan an lilt electric 11 fan tun Back of the dining saloon Is a ledge up UI under the port vort portholes holes where the second clas eias en gelo sleep Tho Thu top deck bun bins u a lou dou double louiIe ble hie awning of ot canvas to io protect us from tho tropical sun HUH und and at ut midday we WI e tire uro advised to keep our hats on Willie While ruling Fitting under it The guns rays strong In this altitude mid iiii ono Oi must bust t his Ills head oven uell when In Indoors indoors doors It if tho lie root roof is not thick Aft Act li t passengers ITO wo havo only about half a l dozen on the tho Sybil and they and tho the h are Iho only Europeans The sailors tore are I natives who got gut wages wa of o about 10 cents a ii l clay and Uio UI steward ward and cooks ore are who lire ate paid a u little mote The Tho passengers are two British officials on their way to serve In Interior Uganda a 1 surgeon who Is If for tor Mwanza In the lath kal liers ICIS territories on tho the south houth of ot tho tim lake lako n a 1 Kongo Tongo trader who has bus about a I cartload of or beads b nils and brass braas with him him to tv buy hu Ivory hory and rubber and a missionary who hio la is going to Kampala I and wul who will get et off Ir at nt t Entebbe In III addition to these thell are uro myself and son non who thI will Viii leavo tIle tho boat bent at Entebbe for rOl Uganda We e have also 1 on board a IL half dozen native t soldiers r and urn ono of or these IB Is III al always ways wars guarding log the lie mall mil II rho The bags were 1011 carried under guard on au Jo to 0 tho Ito thoI boit I at lit Port Violence a soldier with a u gun In III timid stands beside thorn them day und tim night throughout the tho voyage A COMING CO J The rite p t is III that bat Luko Victoria wilt will same day da bo be as tum well voll known to tho limo globetrotter as tho the great lakes of or Am oilen The of coming here bore is too high for tho the ordinary traveler hut but N the Ih It Until man who cnn cun i lely ay tin th In hills bills can canlle lle on these l boits almost as its II com COIn comfortably as m nt lit I t home I mean as ilK far fal farno itt no as eating and nud drinking ate are concerned toil mid ns nil respects the thc climate Theio is II much to bo bl b desired In III time tho matter mallI ot of freedom from cockroaches rats Int and other oth r posts I 1 have never seen so su many and it such wild animals ii Ilium of ot tho roach kind My t cahill cabin has bos some sauna as 1111 large as ns mice flail and it I to mo toe that they come out In lit tho the daytime and look Ionic ut ono while they sharpen their teeth In order to trouble him tho the butter better at lit night Tho Thu roaches run lUll through tho lie dining rooms rebus and when I T put my foot on oIl one OliO an as I Ilia do oto whenever it Is possible ble bie it leaves a grease spot spit us Its s largo large as uJ my my hand on the time Another infernal internal I I insect In t is tho the Jig jigger ser ger cr I dont know Imol where I J got mine whether on shore or on ship but my nuy native boy has extracted tho the eggs egg of or three of or these theMe toasts pests eRtH from under by h toes tOI luring during the lit voyage The Tho Jigger Is a lit littie littie tie insect which bores a hole holo In III one ones olles choosing the foot toot and usually l under tho the toenails It 11 lays la K Its It eggs there In the thu form or of a little cask I about as all big as aH a It pearl leall shirt button and amid this sack |
