| Show THE POTENT STEAM WHISTLE STANLEY AND OTHER EXPLORERS THE NATIVES OUT OF 01 THEIR WITS bhea the traveler takes a steamboat for the first time up no an unexplored river he be usually lads that the whistle is as potent as a kowl howitzer tzer would be in keeping unfriendly natives at ac a respectful speet ful distance the cable informed us the othir other day that when stanley reached the bis big town of on the river the tillage was de cle populated in a twinkle by a blast from ore of his flis whistles atles when they found that nothing had hurt them however the they came back the scare they got mayi may have lave accounted for the friendly recep reception tiou they gave stanley when he visited this town several years ago go the people would not sell him film a particle of load food they had an abundance as he was able to ascertain though they pleaded that taut they were in a starving condition cond nion this thid time howG however ver they sold him plenty of eatables and did griat anat they could to speed him on his hia way nothing imp impresses a savage more than a big noise and nothing inspires hl him with greater terror than a noise be doets does not unde understand cistand baton VOU vein schwerin says that mat tife tire aims arms are chiefly useful to the con congo 0 natives for the noise they can make makai with them lie he hinks chinks the native with a run gun in his hand is not hall ball so fo much to ue be feared as when he is armed armea with his lance flintlock muskets and gunpowder are two leading articles ot of import into the congo region but as yet the natives use them merely to contribute a regular fourth of july racket to all festive occasions whole kegs keers of gunpowder arp sometimes burned to celebrate a victory i in a war or the advent of a new knief sometimes the wr wretched etchen guns burst to the great personal I 1 injury D of te men who handle them but these tragic incidents do not shake the na tive laith faith in the white mans shooting lion roa as on the whole a very innocent and most enjoyable plaything thing but these puff puffing lii steamboats that are eviden evidently tl y things of life aie are great sources of terror on first acquaintance and when the barange swimming tw imming monster emits ao an unearthly shriek everybody within hearing bearing feels that it is high lima to uke take to the woods grenfell Gren lell walt and other coego explorers triumphantly proved the efficacy of the steam whistle wm on occasions when the natives are were determined to he be hostile at short range abd when captain everill the fl fly river in new guinea two years many unfriendly tribes a blik fr from om his hia steam whistle was usually enouch to cause a let up in the showers of arrows that every where greeted him new york sun aura |
