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Show MAGAZINE SUNDAY, SECTION s ome FEB.28 . 1909 of the > [Experiences (hich Confront Alriean ZZ 9 xx \)\ \) ‘s " x \ \\\ \\i ry) J nN ee \) , } a - LGC LY fC. al Africa Jungle Lr. mmo THESE PHOTOGRAPHS COPYRIGHTED BY UNDER WOOP AND UNDERWOOD NEW YORK > eta is ‘ i. ; - i j 1 : 5 ¢ j § $ i ~ § as 4 FOIL Of MALIVE HIM SICIGHS Of Leytral Atrice COPYRIGHT HE great are among ty, the wild avoid may lurk s he ris ELVERSON dangers the native the possibilty ot servants of the indispensable danger irom JAMES BY three ] traveler of contracting animals. the kroo With wild everywhere beasts, and Africar a revolt theSpar boys feve reasonable care on | one does not i s breathing the deadly ger Gregory, who accompanied on the monkey latter's expedition for the language, writes as follows ] experiences with the fever both hostile and friendly THE AFRICAN study of in regard and the ¢ nat. FEVER Just after finishing our evening meal the pro fessor complained of a violent head nd pains 10 bis limbs. His temperature I found reg istered ] Quinine and antipvns were ad ministered, but to my horror he began to ravi hysterically I persuaded him to lie quic an try to sleep. Sleeping powders I admin istered dul to no avail, as he in What was 1 to do? Visions of madmen f throuch my brain I was alone No help near and I was unable to leave thx cagé The AGon was desperate in the extreme Suddenly the protessor Jumped up, sei la re peating rifle and fired rapidly at imaginary BY NATIVES "Keep cool,"" then I caught sight of a most. of hum inity, who was crawlcarrying bow and arrows, | and eaten alive warned the prolessor, "They broke gerjy open boxes thing in sight stantly jabbing end geing suUepen to do Presents Of provisions, Two big me with were with he us ehiel our instrument t bucks g¢ a spear {nzhtful ting every- d me on The ordeal What were as ee olns bedecked ue or . €3 Rae o ni me 1 : 8 pot four ; vaitl ere The in to. wart limb thie with oD a tribe dr ‘me to ready to chic their heads and beating the Tom ims VISITING THE PIGMY ‘TRIBE following "mo, ning the Fantee ~ warnlel Che Che they ' who he: ing t woving ruding: our kraal escort and us stat on." notified On us journey our After taking; that to a he we Britisb leave of the Mang led us to a lagoon where we embarked Vlich was manned by twelve stalwart paddled. Sang War songs " as they Our inte pretey intormed us that we would have to go through the Pigmy land. The scenery We were now Pussing Was magnificent. The foliage, aud the plumage of th birds were most brik lant Four daya Congo, : Mighty of the Benin ol paddling Where tribe, brought we engaged who us the } } black people and sony on eurth to \ frst which Pigmy other, has will discharge being jast the hit iaverte them Mien covering coy Some. guide of them The Pigmies hunting. using nothing but tics shoot with great arrows, the leaves the the us are ciephant over the live ae) pear frantically, A & When he falls into are head. : he is : afraid of : feet1s three, weight encouraging his ofncers nine that when killed Titory entered WIN the four have lagoon. aWould 6f CANNIBALS. FROM miles to On told of us the that we cannibal had kraal to pass and that way by the -heard the night travel nearing in the village we he cay ‘om-toms and hideous noises made by. thr J ust as we were passing under a ana of trees we discovered two caro $ load growth With cannibals ""mething to appear, a to us, oF notice any take evidently At first wailing tot they did not as OUL, CaANOes d past, but we bad not proceeded twenty When a shower of arrows flew around us, ng ap our interpreter in the chest With the natives followed us, shooting arrows professor to odle for your lives," shouted the to ba terpreter at the same time calling to me - Teady "the to give foremost them a shot canoe stood a big buck uegro IS safe : of tbe self-ig l Then the canmiba) tribe of Ahassa narrowly escaped an urtimely en2 inte rpreter , wun T' terrible massacre occurred 10 ney Englishmen twenty-three leaving Benin we entered the ter- ESCAPE ane ale, a1 traveled, we devs ly . sur b rable as Valuab two by sdis ering cr Vi rivet Darro wh and and he I a cape _ men . to pask ise were were s Tp surprised on ae : avd ong ant to whose oe health was oe F au mourned the loss I ae t suv ¥; 8 A e'¢ equ1 IMME something " yack ge passage bob yee betw \ Englan in October British the vy the where morning, from welcome warm irveled sax ere t fit Niger, » the the , Congfk iger, a i er mnnec ‘ cabled arrival was Our Professor Lorenz, ‘ \ a 5shattered, rr < 5 ie : n : pictures r ipt nt juipmen of Ilm 1 1 hieved ‘ ld tha that : he1 : t Id when to hear river German fifty the After wean! "4 a the early:in Ahassa at received All night relief. to Four intense riving we i : They from 2 we country Pigmy the bis in‘ stature tribes , T8sy Ty A: pit. is small other i the (a ; pr the ; - shouted fellow," at that ‘Now let fly fessor, at the same time bang went his rifle, over On cam upsetting the canoe toppled the chief, , gaining on us rapidly sage Whey hen the other canoe, f l fly let us-we from fifty yards got about they } } [his wate the mto ind bowled over another ceased padd] i ng. and they checked our pursuers . > ot the king of Benin, who is now @ ca} fern It was in this county the castle at Cape Const. and hunting arrowe Pigmy J all ea- large holes. dig leaves; then sle- of the and from height feet.varies his and four to Nis te fving rapidity. four arrows, one after in the air before the They palm hows hundreds brave, Pounds slide Elephant marl pastime over with "N00 'y ine)hes the Pigmies are the of them are They wander red place and sleep under a busb#leep in small huts made like tour feet*high. The door is only Ae inches Beds are made a irom place to : Some of them bee hive, #D0ut about e ighteen sticks cove red with tirely by ay _\lthough ve hin an interpret contracted the ‘ Pigmy district "\S Tost people are aware, to through Smallest hi Sie of barge paddlers paaeIdler ers. Roosevelt use could plainly of. wat Mucl u8-a Hide your re el and our rifles Lhe natives swarm- examining A group SCCL red FO, Presideyt ters leaf inside WAS vane ing ed whtiiCh i Juy wart whe piven lik of i . may be from a fnendly tribe,' He had no sooner spoken than some sev D Natives sprang as if from the « I h and ran a Chey frst commenced dancing ar the cagwre uund, ve lling and ma} ing bideous gmmaces. Finally or big warrior poked his spe through the are The professor grew deadly pale and I w hal "It is all up," said he and let us give them food He then opened the gat« * type an As we were in the act-of adjusting a phor graph, we heard a series of low whi tle which undoubte dly were from human beings Nearet and nearer they sounded "Get your rifle, vhispered the professor "See those bushes moving We are surrounded by natives hideous specimen ing on all urs, saw myself slain CAHCE ene mie made a dash for the medicine chest Procuring one grain of mor} ine, I hastily mixed if in a glass of whisky, which ] managed 9 him to take Soon he sank into uncon 1OUsNess That night of anxious vigil I shall never for get After thirty-three hou the profe r be came semi-conscious. Many weary days passed before he was. conva escent CAPTURED A state Do to say ists" unbridled to central [ Drevfus 1s theue least magnetic fewer friends than in his triumph He 2 has failed (the the . affair, Dreyfus it' he he ; I because unlucky or the or both?-has mirera tress. SH. oO that win over his and his Pare the ogee ny addis anta Royalist political rincipal virtue mn This 0 : fully 4 Dreyfu two years after his pardon, in a highly nervous state, woke often in the ws : : on was still that jhehimself impression under a ht "Tle du the Diable," and to md of the ; se ( t, : y » was wont to get up and pace hideous nightmare wa oO < I a hich ney? ee to attain rendered the highest it impossible in grades for th 1c him ever army, Le one, h uses persi itly to "‘pla loce politic He is neither an= anti-militamst ge nor a rabid anti-clerica] In short, Dreytus 1 h ust hich a re Dreyf he Dreyvfusard ' \, sere ti he majo I Am on nn ither ocial hi limits He orgive uo inderstand ; h the n the friends t a jhich i he ‘ } mat mainly le appears of f honos mo oe mmor! ffair ires tfa ynearanes relations nF eee satisfied with the law of reparation vuld NanJO, W bi h accorded him ! less than he‘ obtained in the natural course of even © hi superannuation. at the end 1 } vith ng xr wit He e is is n now i bis famuy in ne! in a of Paris, ‘Maleahocl quarter Monceau en: Sire cisband which differs in no essential respect from a bun 4g other ipartment houses in the same dis we 7 was e Never having recognized that his cause was ns continue with impunity to reter : to him V ! organs : re Le Traitre'') , and he has contrived to get t ‘ ‘Le as all his " former cham by) nearly h nimseself dishked f « who cynically affirm that "his innocence me Co JCy 1E demanded j year him most most ol and in had he anti-Semitic > JE NV figure int point rare to' end hi cae mn : 1 Ze ut make atten t t e « eremoniii er nts inimpe rlant of 2 inin tl yocasion of ? 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