Show in central africa viscount Mount morres in the lon don graphic for may IS continues his most interesting report on the ex he has recently made in the hitherto sections of cen aral africa although the viscount is aln no sense a sensational writer and makes no effort to produce effect there is much information in what he is giving to the world of the sort which enlists and holds the interest of all who happen upon his articles continuing the series which he be gan in an earlier number of the gra chic he writes the Is curiously enough more familiar as a name in this coun try than many more important tribu barles of the congo river the term savage has come 0 o te synonymous with the lowest ape of barbarism yet to the traveler who lights on these people today to day they seem tor the most part an inoffensive enough race and in the case of many tribes not wholly wanting in indigenous civilization the fact of desert travel Is that the change which has come over this region since stanley made known the trials and the difficulties he had to contend with in traveling it is almost incredible it Is only exteen ears ago since he was forced to fight his way almost inch by inch through hordes of relentless enemies and to day the white man passes un molested and in perfect security ac cents the hospitality that the natives extend to him in their trim esque villages at intervals of a day s journey the whole distance from to Is a series of beautiful well kept state stations and where but a few short years ago the terrible tragedy of the rear guard was played out with slow relentlessness one stands and watches the steamers coming and going between the lower congo and the post of hard by while as one approaches the latter from the other up stream side one passes through a large village where one is acclaimed with the beating of and the cheering and shouting 0 enthusiastic crowds yet even today there are savages and savages some there are still of the surliest and sulkiest others again who live up to their reputation for quarrelsome ness and are a constant source of trouble and perpetual disturbers of the peace and et other again there are of the very lowest type of timid indolent and weakly bush men but it Is pleasanter to think of pan ga prim and trim nestling among the hills by rapids with its cheery hospit able people all decked out in their gaudy ornaments and weird head dresses of all the villages I 1 saw lt was the neatest the prettiest and sweetest and was arranged with a taste and an eye tor effect which bore out the tribe s reputation for being an artistic people A little way further down on the opposite bank one cornea to a large village of an allied race where still dwells lepulu the chief who alone of all those in this part befriended stanley and acted as his guide I 1 saw and talked with him and magadi well and told me many of the emin pasha relief expedition the characteristic of his village was its mathematical ry giving it a curious resemblance to long rows of old world clipper yew schooled Arabi sed tribes whose plantations often march with their all lages they seemed strangely out 0 place these tribes who form a very large proportion of the alon in the whole eastern part of the independent state ot congo have reached a very high pitch of civilized development for a black race theli villages are large and consist of lofty well built houses in a moorish style of architecture surrounded by planta eions in which maize rice kinds of tubers and other useful are scientifically and carefully culta bated the people themselves are very exacting and punctilious in the discharge of their religion which however has been apparently modified in one or two respects as for in stance in the position and treatment of women who are neither veiled 0 cloistered but on the contrary appear freely in public are well clothed aa are treated with of conald bratton that Is fare african op es AS a rule the population of these Ari based villages are moderately well educated in all the more am ones there are well conducted mohammedan schools and the child ren are taught to read and write ara bic and are given an elementary edu cation in geography and general knowledge while they are carefully instructed in the virtues of cleana ness and decent living one would hate supposed that abe presence 0 this interesting people could not but have been beneficial to the indigenous population among which they are thickly planted but unfortunately the primitive instinct of the black even under the veneer of civilization has proved too strong they use their superior knowledge and simer lor abilities principally to oppress and impose on their less en 1 neighbor who especially in the forest of itura consist of some of the most primitive folks to be found on earth including the dwarf tribes and the pigmies two distinct classes of humanity which have often been erroneously confounded the former principally Mang boutis belong to a far higher order than the ine pigmy who Is but rarely seen ex capt by those who penetrate into the very heart of the forest miss on school in africa hedges for it Is entirely composed ot the steeple rooted leaf thatched quad rl lateral huts which one first meets with coming down stream a little above banga panga and which gradually entirely supersede the tiny span root dwellings of the epoco tribes and of the dwarf peoples on the upper reaches and along the banks of the at where the dituri as the aher Is called at the source on the uganda frontier first becomes the the population Is largely what Is known as Arabi sed made up that is of rapes from the south whom old tippo brought with him but the indice I 1 aborio nal races still exist in some strength and it Is extraordinary how resolutely they have held out against both arab and white influence all this time they are a backward naked unintelligent lot typical for est people whom it seems almost am possible to raise in any way beside the clean 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