Show MOUNT NT K 1 J HO ET P Il Enst nt n the noW flow thu tho I 1 K tIC M German ot or this African conti of rock un It Is ft a bit o tIt It cut Cul bl liS a your lre tit tile top ot or the 1 LIng UI lul Africa tt Il l ca domina tour foUt fl t itt The Th rock cut eul ore oft the e climbed to the tho who Iho of It vo ot nt top und and made mado Into Inlo II a r II the It flow lits It hond In hi h hf Iia Tight ht houd on hla f In Berlin Bov MOUNT I 1 that thal the kaiser I h proud anil ot of owning Mount that thaI hl hII subjects out there thero 11 i no doubt douht hero t ol the amo wa way Tie 1110 port ot of Tunga just backof or tills this between British OIl Ui the EMt Africa Its Ith lowest lowet G rt by railroad and are Ie now or of the regions of at Gernatt u ast t AfrIca at its lIa toot TheRe TheBe are arc bellig b by who aro Oo oU coffee cofO nn hemp Theto Thel 0 which contain arc some OI teUs lit of of cottee correa trees an largo large tractS arc being Bet et out In rub rubber ber bel or 01 planted to grain A If iia loco led there an there or nr nIo lews s who hao been driven oUt of It I u by the o othe If the czar Tho Tha land Is it High and the climate Is healthy health Tile The railroad has about 72 miles west westward ward varl and It Is IB to go 10 up III the tho slope elope of Jt The governor sen 11 vho lies recently made 8 I that region teIl me ho he Is os as to 10 the progress no now mak ng and 11 predicts that wo ve viiI Homo sorno dil have P n little ao away out lero In tho heart ur of AfrIca under the ot of Its highest mountaIn The day wIll Illy come when hen Iho 1 of at Kilimanjaro will ho bo ono one ot of the tho r regular stunts at o the tho aln clImbers and nd wo may have havo co cog running up III to 10 resorts In about Its lIs mighty peaks DurIng In nw stay In III British FA t At rico Ica I aw this mountain times timet far ott In the thc distance it 11 looks like a groat cloud of snow as ae it Il weN In tho blu Hley It ends In two tSO like Ikc a 0 saddle back and It stands upon U great which Is more than It mile higher than th top ton of Mount TilE rIlE WORLDS MIGHTIEST MOUNTAiNS Is on the Iho roof ot of the continent find amI it II Is I ono one of th half dozen or mort inoru spIres whIch high the tho root of the world With the lijo exception of Mount McKinley and of the and the An lIes It Is 15 by tar tho hIghest mountaIn on the Iho gobe We 0 have nothing to compare with It In North AmerIca and If could put the tho on top or of Mount mane the they would not nol reach tio Sc hIgh I have hae gone Rone alon along the tho Panama to 10 and have on n nil their STe groat t razo In 10 EUCalOr Is just as tall as a KIlL tha height of tim tho ash to It Mount In BolivIa oHIa Is something like Ike 1 feet higher l er and Ac on lh I and Argentina Is i 23 feet above this topmost point of AfrIca Ono OliO gre sights o or the thc world orld Is Mount Eore I whIch rIses h hout out of oC l the o midst o of the Himalayas to 1 a ot of six milts atIles the tot tea Its Ite actual height is III focI I hare seen it from near iDar In the tha bright of oC the tho early morning and I can toll tell you OU IL does net com compare fre In with this EVerest has hall so lQ mall flint other around it Il that you OU cannot Its iU size stands ulmot alone and 1111 tt double dome of frosted sliver fair floats In Inthe the tho blue sky the natives liv lug hiI near It believe that thol the tho top of the is III modo Of silver The They nr too far Cur down to know what sno menns anti and in III a regIon roslon pa near tho equator that all 1111 the lowlands am It steaming I nl TIlE NATIVES ABOUT JAnO During my stay hero here I intro wIth German who have ex cx explored large parts of this mountain They rhey tell me that thal tM the land Is rich at atthe the tho toot tool and that It Is Inhabited by 1 a number ot of ouch each by nn sultan or chief There Thee are arf among thorn them who have hav large I flocks of oC cattle and sheep and man ninny 1 other othel tribes who engage In farming having little or of graIn surround od cd b by hedges Some of II Ic their fields carrying the water vater from rom level to by of canals A further up t Ii covered with R a dense denSlO vegetation The trees are arEl full or of orchids and other air plants plant and there thero are arc lions leopards and Ind all sorts ot of wild beo beasts t There art are slime Coma elephants and the tho hunting Is said to he be very good Higher Blither still the Vege and ond becomes more that of the temperate zone zono At t the nl al altitude ot at Pikes Peak Penk tt It ceases entirely and from thence on the tho perpetual snow Tim topmost peak known as 1 Kibo I always snow covered ThIs by Hans Meyers In 1859 lie He that It has hns 1 a crater more than a amIle I mile In circumference and over GOO feet teet the walls of which lire covered with ice fIll rhe lower lowel peak pook Is known us liS l It Is just about aboul feet high or about as 1111 high ns as In Mexico THE lH POnTO PORT OI jANGA I wish J I could show you OU thIs hue little African town or at Tango It lIes lucre hore on the tho just opposite the Iho dove cOO of whIch belongs belong to Great Britain It II Is In East Africa a few below the tho river which Is lart Jart of the boundary h b this country countr and the British East Africa It II lies at one ot of the mouths of the Pagani river whIch ne OH cs Oft tile slopes of Kilimanjaro and carries away the greater part o of Its The coast hero here Is low and nud tropical and the vegetation Is so dense that the mountains cannot bo be seen Reen Indeed there are no hills anywhere and Ind the tho yo wanders over oer cocoanut palms palmI loaded with nuts and grae lands spotted here and with fat baobab trees whose WhOM branches reach out like great white lingers clutching the tho air airl Tanga l ango has hall a 0 beautiful harbor The mouth of the rIver Is III such Rueh that It forms a 0 bay of thousands of acres well pro protected from the storms of the Indian ocean At Al the entrance to the bay Is a poInt on stands n a hospital of two stories At enl end of the Ihl ha the tho buildings of the tho city begin boin They are compo composed pd ot of Euro Euron n and thatched rooted roofed huts hUls which arotha are tha homes or of the lila dim doo merchants and of the na natives UCB tives OER GERMAN tAI NT The town has II a horns or fort and a large Iron shed which serves nil as tI it na native thc tive It has II a lIke those of and government buildings ot of various kinds There Is a 0 00 H 0 t X 1 I 1 X r i i A it l A 1 f X Sr SrI X V I I r r I Y oY I Ii o I y I i I cc A AI r k I I d dc o oI oV c oy i s y 1 d 4 I 9 r rL L v h hI V I A Af f v r rn h I n ic f ff l i f A A o A 1 f A I V A I A 1 f V A Y o X 1 1 A 5 A A Aa AX a X X 1 V V y 1 V 1 1 V 1 1 V 1 J 4 is 1 1 1 t I o s 1 v 1 1 1 j 1 1 t j A t 1 f V w A BOYS SCHOOL AT TANGA AND SOME NATIVES I Ito pIt ed for to u tu o b 11 G 0 a ter y hotel with a upon It and wide vid running around It There Is a 11 school chool where the tho pupil 1111 black boys with ith shaved heads stud study their un tin del dec the pictures of tho kaiser and kai kal which look down from th the walls As to matter the em emperor emperor and empress ml are ubiquitous In Inthis inthis this port of if East Africa The Tho hang theli In 10 eOry and nearly cor house store and hotel has bus a 0 cheap print ot of the thc kat kal kalHer katHer Her Thera are oro statues and busts ot of at the Iho several arman parts I 1 have written or of thio Iho great medallIon or of whIch IRon is on It a pyramid nt at the southern end of Victoria There Is isa n bronze bust hust lI of hint hIm on a 11 ped estah In the Ihl public at Tanga and II a rather fine statue or of him lit at Dam Dal Dales es cc The streets ot of have German names like the streets of ncr r rIn In and tho same Is true of oC far Dar es Sa There Thero Is Ito doubt about this he be Ing In n a and no doubt douht that the tho rule rille It l FLOGGING NEGROES S SI I see e tho IllmO caine fierce soldiers everywhere us OH I saw about In Victoria Ia 1171 the they ns as well selI liS as tIlt go about with It II lord lordly I air 1111 I have already of the flogging rho colored man here has hag but few rIghts that the white man Is bound to respect t This Thle Is so after one olle gets out alit Into the wilds wild In Indeed Indeed deed I nm am surprised ell at the tho vaI 0 In which time traders relate their own treatment or of the Iho natives Mu An Am n whom J I met here was talking tile tho other night or of a 0 trip lie he had hOll mado macia through East EaRL Africa In which he had employed 1 a large larKe lIng of negro Porters to carry his Supplies Raid gait lie he You can noel never toll lell the these o rascals are shamming or no not Ire I ro one of my porters who ho wn was nl al ns playIng o ott sIck lek and whom lioni I had to whIp almost from tIm tho start None of m my men inca like to 10 walk through the Iho swamps after nightfall It Is rather clangorous YOU OU know hut but I hod to hurr and I pushed right along Ono One evening thus porter refused to go far th tImer I r lie HI down dowl on In Iho edge of 0 a log a awl 1111 said he would not mo moI move I hlll had In may men stretch Im out unit I flogged him again and again In vain A At last the tho foot cool put ono one or of his arms him to sivo his Iti hack back front frum the blows o of the and I his wrist amid broke It Of course I could do nothing wIth him fIner after that lie lIo could conI not hold the load on lila his head an I hail had to lo leave hint him there In inthe the tho These were the tho words not or of n a glan giami a 0 German n or a ah 01 though I 1 have hoo equally bail stor les Ies from men of each ellch of those these national hut but the tilO well vere those of nn an Amen Amerl lali can were uttered nM an Ih the man am as ii tid in g him ii un to 10 Ille IlleIn ci Ic In the ero ot at tin 1111 consequence Another mono mann who trim to ho n a hut hilt who on nn I Ian told nie me that thal he li lost several porters ii h death from exposure dur clUr ing ng n a recent trading trip nd that lie he had hod hogged one 1111 U lit ii lie Ill ii The Tho wages or of lIuch sUC lJ Porters is foil cents celtic 1 a ii antI nd they feul Ilves Thu loads or Of 70 ea eaCh h and trot II nil all do cia wIth such on their thell heads I 1 ant told 1 t ha t th lire H re cheuu t eu iy by t he traders In ever avers lO wa ca Their W wages g gare are lu in lothi lit is usually given Ilven three yards being made to go 10 fill four The doth cloth mentioned In the contract is IR often American or sheet log hut hul the traders will tr try to 10 ore oI Indian cottons which are little better holteI than cheesecloth Indeed the English anul I nil Ian t mud ore make no bones of telling how the they the flu tive S an the they laugh over It OM as they do so LOO Not for far bock back from Tanga Is ono one of the greatest lIt forest regions of this part vart of I Host Africa government hori has reserved several hundred acres but the Is open to 10 exploitation au and ore are nov going over oer It with IL view of shipping timber out tI to tho Coast I understand that there thero Is n a treat great of line fife han hanwood wood wooI ns its well as cedar other othOr tim timber her ber lit of value Much uch of the country noar tile the cO coast of East Africa Is co covered wIth man trees cocoanut I there thero are amid There are vines nm emit trees which rubber und and also aio valuable Down iown alon along the tho coast the tilt setting out plantations and are arc exer with cacao tobacco vanilla nm and the tho cinchona tl tree from rein whose buck burk our OUI comes Much or of the interior of this I is not nol unlike the tho country about Lake Victoria many ot of the Iho plains Are covered with elephant grass grasp This grows growl twice high nil as camus head I lIB have Ie stalks lulls it H fet tall and nn i 1 a trip through the Iho interior I 1 had to show nIi theIr height In the rainy 5 season ruUn this grass often glus u di foot In a nIght It is III much like a fIshing roul has like cnn cane It is IR usually o off ot at certain times ot 01 tIme the year lal and I huo traveled ovum 1101 roads road great on one sIde lide ot of no 1110 where If th the wind limi changed I woUld have In danger When lumi time tho gross is III set let nUro attro the roll UI 1111 In great s tIlo tho entice canes burn bUln tile liOnel apart tich aeh n cm like the shot ot of 1 zi pistol The Tho fire III 18 accorn b by a continual h ond tim tho scenes amo grand grond tv to nn an In Iii East Enst Africa mon mann of tIme Iho trado routes go gra grass A n of this kind The consist or Of which vind this WO way and alit that over tit country hen It the grass the WIl 10 I attern after a shower It Is often octon hours before ono one can keep dr dry TRAINING I have wrItten of the tho which the thoo British are aro making makInI itt at to rul raise e the zebra for Cor tural use Tiley are being carried on lit at Nairobi anul on the farn near Lake In British En East t AfriCA The Tho Germans Germane nr are mIlking making In lar experiments In th their lr territory antI so tar far the they have been They are tryIng to 10 train the zebras as ridIng animals with the Idea Idoo that they nitty eventually bo b table to outfit the tho native nolle a 11 11 with them In the bar barracks racks itt at IS cc I wo shown I a dozen zebra tied lied up In the tho stalls stall I llIo itie by side with Time The told Ino imm hint thy had hen to JM I i the re easily In I was M shown the tIt cc HUIt of some cro crosses le between achna and the hon horte Omme IL a a 0 year mother Will was it IL big ig 1 8 inure This Thill mInimal was I l the ordinary zebra hut but It Il wall shu fd In jut just the tho same way woy and It lied hod er every netted or Cf tha zebra excepting white amid black It tae WIltO Itt In over IL a body of light brown hrOn The Stripes of tim are aro of time the black end the whitest white hite When the Lord hint him lie lIlI did it Il In such lIuch colors that hu rho ho runs can enn road read them are many zebras In the tho InterIor I or Eat East AfrIca ricia end they ar i often orten sh shOt t and eaten Jolen b by the hunters I jt A to hUnting thin country to be popular Il than Uon o East Africa which Is generally known its 18 I the th lond of bl big game German AfrIM Is tI it part or of same plateau and there are I regions In It which swarm 1 with zebras Other game There Thero are many lions und and loop leop arde ns as well DS as I muses anti and roM At pre present ent It coSts for the rIght to big I game In iii the British possession Th The i Germans Issue licenses to 10 shoot or I 4 1 but bu they require III a roial t ty to the government on each head hoad of o game killed Tho high driving the tho spOrtsmen out of th lands north of here and th Will mil hll have the tho geater part of that travel THE P PEi T OF TIre TILt BLACK CONTI While on tho subject t of I to tell you ou about tho th poth I In his part purt ot of Africa Africo Think ot of holding II a Jab bOb leopard In your OUr lap Or I or lye lIftIng tin imp D a lion hy by the tue of tho th neck ThIs It is what T have seen done donn In tho tim pl past t treek k The Th baby lion wo wn tt nt A h r lIe He was wall tied by I it clothes line anti I Was able to pet him without b hurl I took hold of thO thia skin skill of his antI lifted him liin oFf 00 the ground It strained my arm to do so On bake kf I 1 saw nW a 0 pot hyena anti itt At one or of tim the native villages Coun several I hot Pot Pet sheep sheel nn and goats DI are amon among the Africans and hart nr are tribes In whIch ii 11 wilt will follow its Ih master about anit II to hIm called In Uganda Sheep ecu oftOn p petted They are arn sat fat tailed with Ith hair WI as coarse IS as that or of n a American goat gMt They are usually white In color nl al thou though h sonic are oro 11 as red |