Show c A CONGO q ONGO h L fEAST Adventures in the African Forest Wherein a Young ou na I and C Courageous American Is s Rescued Just fust as He e Js s f F About To Be Killed Kill flIed led and E Eaten by Savages s s sV V V V HE writer of at this adventure la It u famous In THE both hemispheres for his deeds of daring He was concerned In two or three fiery escapades In Europe before ho he was WS more than a boy and when ho he was little more marc than twenty ho lio enlisted among tho thc mixed officers who ns as soldiery soldiers of fortuno fortune wore were willing to risk their thoi lives to help King Xing Leopold govern the Belgian Congo His llis military training his hie accuracy as ns a n r shot and eDd his leonine courage soon won for him high recognition and ho was ws mado chief of or police on the tho Congo with a n f command of im imported Imported imported ported Arabian fighting men and ond blacks from the Portuguese possessions noted for their cour courage age ngo gc and soldierly qualities For Por several years he ruled with an nn Iron hud hand then thon resigned to neck neek other adventures Tho young younS American whom rind and nd his party rescued from tho the cannibals Is John Harris Walton still sUll living in San Paolo di dl Loando serving servinS as ns manager of tho the Hatton Cookson Company concessions By Baron Antonio Benedetti Copal it 1010 t by bi r the Now Xo YorK Tork Herald 1 Co 00 All 11 UK IE affair I J nm rim about to Detail In Inho Inthe the tho ho middle o of February Fc 1003 and since It THE T deals with cannibals cannibal maul and then thero Is quite n a abit bit lt of or dispute among armchair authorities on the tho state of or African cannibalism It II seems scorns riso to me 10 to relate a u few of the facts concerning man eating euting as liS I have observed It My M first experience with came cume soon eon after my m taking up constabulary work w irl I had left Iowa Bowa on n tribal mission some weeks before heC JT and with a n company of twenty native natle policemen rind and sixty iM was making an nn overland journey Journer be between between L tween two of the upper tipper tributaries trl One of or my porters had cut his Ills foot on some same sharp bit of or something 50 met hili rind and In his efforts to carry carr his loud load and keep pace with the others had hall hot got ot himself Into a dreadful stale slate before I was Will aware that he hI was us In Incapacitated Incapacitated capacitated When I knew It I at nt once detailed two of 0 my m men mell to divide his load lond carry corr Ills his arms anus rind and help him Jf If J he got so 80 badly on that hut lie ho could not noL travel they were Instructed to remain with wilh him III In camp until ho lie could follow Collow after us We had planned manned to camp for some Rome days as ns soon as ris we reached water The second day thereafter I noticed the men I had detailed In their places but bul the cripple was not to be seen Where is T I asked Oh Oll master his hili Illness overcame him last evening and he died We Vc burled him by the dry river and came on was the answer Somo weeks later n a 1 repot report reached me rue from head headquarters headquarter quarters quarter In III which a missionary charged that ho had hoel found rounel evidence of men attached to my party i having killed nod and Baton calon one of their own on number I sent for tor the two taro I had detailed 1 to care for the tho man mau with the tho hurt foot Coot and told them that the devils delIs had told uio mu the whole story In Jn fact I 1 reconstructed r the picture very vividly for time the precious pair ending by demanding why they had killed 1 and nn eaten their com coin comrade comrade rade lie 11 could wo JO no more and mill We wo could coull not carry him Only his leg Il was awns wa bad had and nOli w wh hy should so much good o id meat ment go o to waste The punishment for cannibalism being 1 death I had buil the two of or them shot at once The Captive Americans I T was ns In command of or u IL small party In the month of ot the year car which I have mentioned and oud wc we we were on a n well protected Island of or the tho great ent river when we heard shouts from Crom the north bank and und andI I 1 saw three white men lOen In one of oC whom I a n very nry famous character of the thc Congo onlo Lie He hud ap appeared pared about ten ton years rears before without telling any ally a one onelie of lie his hi previous pl lous life or the cause of his bis hiding away n In Inthe Inthe the and had entered on the tho life of or a n hunter and trader trad r upending all nil of his time with the blacks black lie He was known among white men Inca as liS Nemo Lem and nail among the blacks as nR The two men with him I did not know Sending my pirogue e with Its ItH crew of or rowers runners I 1 ran had them In camp campI I did not speak English at that hat time but hut very c cr y quickly told lold me one the story torr In the native nathe tongue He Ile hall had been employed to 10 guide tho the two Iwo and a Il third lend friend As nearly as ns I remember the details tho third thin man John h Harris arris Walton by br mull Mill III L blacks and land had doubtless been heen killed and Hn perhaps eaten The Tho natives employed ed by h the party had tied leaving i it lele and the two other Americans to make their way wn down river r to civilisation as ns best they I he could The Tho affair had hOll happened only on I n 1 few hours hour before and rind It was sheer good fortune that they the had encountered my Amy police party As nearly aa nf and 1 I could determine tho the at nt taek on Oil Walton lUll bud been mado mucIo by a n 1 detachment from the vagrant tribe o of or a n 1 chief chlof named who wandered hero and there with about one huts hun hundred dred followers foil 0 wel nil all that was ns loft left to him huts of or a large lar u force which wo we had hn nearly wiped out ont live years rears be before befort before fore fort Walton had keen been sit jit n t some saute distance from camp when II It happened mind and when wh n the tho camp blackn blacks deserted descried It hind had been plain pima that pursuit pintail without a 3 stronger force was waK u lJ useless solera in that lemote remote section and his men would not trouble to 10 el far fa r with their pris prisoners prisoners and the stores loreR they tho had bad stolen and If Ir we were el careful we might steal up on au them that night and awl punish them themAs themAs As s quickly as ns I 1 could organize a n guard for or my lilY camp and detail a fi punitive force to the pirogue we sot set off ore The Tho twenty rowers rowe placed us Uti Just J t before sunset t at nt the tho spot where the attack attach had occurred There h ro wo we found several II of ot the tho blacks black who had hind de do deserted scrod They had como come back after atter their panic punic stud and were In a n very despondent hopeless state walling waiting In camp for something to 10 happen They Thu were agreed that tho the raiders were th the men well of or und tutu that the party port of ot twenty or more moro had harl the tho river and nud gone one up UI ono one of or the tributaries According to their reports the raiders were able ablo warriors and welt well w 11 armed it WitS was u a desperate chance to take but I decided to togo togo go 0 In pursuit at a t once and practically yielded the com cony maud to whose who c familiarity with the tho anil and with every overy little bit hit of or African woodcraft mode mu him a n man tn ur be lIo In ID u 11 hunt like this way wa In the tho pirogue was made absolutely clear so that the big bl fellows could get Jet a n full f ll long stroke Squatted Squalled tI ou on the bow bo was In his bit jungle Jun t worn hunting salt milt a n great soft hut hat crowded cro el down over ocr li hilt litH ears curs I rs And his bin black beard t to over o r his shoulders na the o phot lI the wind windI I i c I ii j rf 0 r rJ J X U UI I I j t r F 1 I l N i I J 1 l I h 1 t r h 1 r Jt fir J r 1 I r I a 71 r rJ rr LA 1 if I i I j S J 71 I L I j z 0 I IJ r I close clo e at fit hand bund The hc rowers rower were commanded by a u lunge huge o who stood at sit his finis full height and amid di directed reefed the course cour e of or the craft at nt times timed by b the Inclination tion of or his body hod and again by IJ queer hissing hUsIng commands to time the men It was has as stirring a n picture as us one could wish to see ns as we moved moed across the turgid river prat In lu the slanting lJ rays of or the tb red declining sun slIn and amid then OHm In ill the tIle black standouts shadows of the intervening trees it quite dark before we wo hall had fairly entered tho the tributary l we se were wore to 10 ascend Through the Jungle In an nn hour we were moving In III the of or time the tropical night ul ht with only the sounds of nature about us Ug At limes thues there would be ht a 1 splash and n II great r nt pulling hiet I near us as ris some hippopotamus disturbed by our sweeps would sink to lo safety High h up on the rocks we could hour hear n imitating hunting hUll tin leopards yawning a cry answered by IJ a H chorus of ot lions roaring on on the tho theother other outer bank halik where the they th had come cODie down to drink And again n aln there would sound from ruin the forest orest heavy crashes that meant some heavy heu least beast wits US astir there thoro For long Ion spaces of or time Ume there would be he no till sound from tho animals but there was never complete still uess because of or the vast of birds of or mill all sUes sizes In time riverside Jungle jun le If It one lost Jost his hlf J trod tried to 10 o regain It he would disturb a thousand others that lilted or Hopped hither and thither through the tho thick dark There la Is I no sound unless s It be bo the report of a fI heavy hea gusts gun that will carry so far In the African night nigh h a n as s the noise noiRe of ono one or more of the big LII drums of ot which thu the are so 10 fond fend A t section of or a n hollow tree whittled to a n thin hit shell and highly seasoned and pol poll l IJ will till make n sound If It struck even CUIl when It has no drumhead on It U but cover ono one or both ends with taut tanned skins and beat L at them with a H aHat HIot tint Hat wooden puddle and the sound could bo Lie heard for fOI forten forten ten miles It must have hae liven been lk n near neur midnight Judging from time the light lI bt of or the rising rl moon beginning to show In the east cast when gave UIe a sharp clicking hiss and the chief of rowers answered it It We e lied had boon been bee sweep lug up UI the river at ut high speed dark as nt It IL Will way all nil the time lime in danger don r of oC being precipitated Into water that 1 Is never noer safe for or swimming thanks to Its Ita trench treacherous erous crests character anti nOlI Its various dangerous Inhabitants tants and aud wo we went on for fully another half hour before that hiss sounded sounded once wore more from the limo how bow howand and this time I 1 know knew what It recant meant me nt From brow somewhere ahead of o us IS came the Ibo steady stood stead throb of or tho the hums drums Of f O band In camp the tho party we sought or another holding hol ln a II celebration el with huts bin trained d white mans oars ears and find the time og n blocK whoso ears ear needed IQ d no training bud but buth heard h nr that drum r mulu music tong long before beCore It had reached our ourI oura a I T t 1 1 Now ow we swung lu close cl to shore to get lu the shadow of the overhanging g trees us as the lle stage stI O of the river was high tumid and In a few feat minutes crept around a abond 1 abend bond bend and ouM could see s e on mm the bench beach about two IwO Iwo miles away n wa several huge II res As we e drew nearer It was possible to make out omit black figures dancing leaping and running In and till out among them lumens When we wc had hush come came as liS near us Un we wc could without danger r of o being heln semi seen w WI we began to hug bug lIu the shore very ver closely clo el tumid and at last disembarked The he j Parl aily that t went ashore con consisted of fur four white while men and live II black policemen armed with the best rilles rides Carefully we crept through ugh s the bushes until wo we 0 carne came to lo the edges of or tub the th forest nearest t the fire and anti there a terrible sight sl ht met mot our eyes oyo e cs Time The cannibalistic ceremony WitS wan in lu mull full pro progress ro resa res About one hundred blacks were werl lu III t the be tb open space muce and It was very easy as to tomake make malec out the grim figure O lre of or old Near to His Death Stripped and arul tied to la a OJ at stake young youns Harris He Ili still 1 alive for aw him turn his head fiend and there was wa a u In bus bis attitude that sent senta a n l thrill through h every eer white while wan umu there He fie was facing death HM liS a n white mama should The men dune Ing rig about him him hud bud pricked d him hums lu in a 11 score of or places with their weapons and even een as U I wo we watched unu dashed clashed forward mind and mode made a fresh wound In him the Uw arm with the point of or an tut assegai u One On of Harris friends raised nt d his ride rille and would have tired red If It lindele bAd not repressed him Im and ond signed SI tI to us to remain where we the were Gathering a runner starling from froma a u murk bo he dashed Bushed fun full Into luto the circle of demons with palm si luo and hemp smoke hulling them right ri bt and left loft with his Ills mighty arms arm and undo facing time thu old chief ehler addressed him hint In III the native tongue Ls Js tills this tho the way WU you Jou would treat n A friend of ot U Have e you jou ou forgotten or that t you ou and i 1 hll exchanged blood and are arc blood brothers r You have 1100 sworn safety to lo all nil that I have buc hold held safe te Perjurer Dog of oC a 1 liar Why Wb did you rou do this All the blacks black knew the tho old man mau His Ills spectacular appearance App had bad ba startled them lb m and they bad had stopped topp tI tIthe the dance at tut once but they the stood glaring angrily at him with weapons reads rendy for tor Instant use Crouched In tho the long grass brU S wo we hold held hel our rifles ready for lor thu crisis with great dignity dl and he was wan certainly barbarously lI This man wan you u call friend not give he food JQ to 10 tomy my any Ill children whoa whon they were hungry null and when they took It ho he killed 1 III ono onu of or theta them There stands the father of ot the dead man mall to pear bear cur me witness They seized him rued and n brought him to te me mite Wo We will punish him and then we wo will firth cut out him You have hn c spoken trio trim when you said gald you ou were my blood brother but hut now you Oll must fro go O You must jl II No Co X 0 I will n nut nt n po ho CHI tam 1111 i I IT Tl T i ii i t Mt I T w or r n II 1 1 i u 11 z j i w 10 t tw c Ol w J q 4 h te t J 1 1 r f 2 tt r t w r rj I E j i t A rF let f Fi r r rt tr fl 1 r ti 1 n v J r r r I 1 I r J J a 1 i I j 71 r t r r Y V tl 1 J I c I 1 I 1 Now pandemonium p came voice till It had the precise sound of time tho roar of a n beast Go Oo tol Gol or I will kill you tool too threw his rifle half up pressing III the tb muzzle of It against n the black chieftains chest and pulled time tile trigger The hc body hodr was WIS literally buried bin led back bael from tho weapon as he fell dead lend lendow Now ow pandemonium Il came emptied his hili magazine Into the crowd that rushed him hint and then whipped out nut his hl Luger Lu r find and put its nine bullets Into the time bunch of 01 them We were wele a n little hindered In our lire by limo tho fact that hunt both Harris nt ot the time stake mind and lighting n for his |