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Show WOMAN TRAVELER. Tell. Komi . tl. lmul ll.t.r.l Wrlru. Miss Mary Klngsle). who has gained International note l her daring tours of exploration In Vfrlra, has written n book, and It contains man) Interesting Interest-ing blta of Infotmallou gathered by this remarkable woman. "We sometimes some-times declare In laindon," wrltea Mis Klngalry, "that we will go out lo Africa to get awn) fruni the noise. Hut that would be u.rless Woe In the man In Africa who cuunot stand perpetual uproar Hurh things Mirprlseu me more than the rarity of silence, and the Intensity In-tensity of It when you did get IL There rs only that time which come between 10:30 a m and 1 30 p. m In which you ran look for an) thing like the usual us-ual quiet of an English village, t fancy the main boil) of the lower classes class-es of Africa think externally Instead of Internally. You will hear them wnen they are engaged together on some Job, each man Issuing the fullest directions nnd prophecies ronrernlng It In shouts, no one tsktng the least notice of hi neighbors. If the head man really wants them to do somethlug dllltcult he fetches thoe within his reach an Introductory whack, and even when you are sitting alone In the forest you will hear a man or woman coming down the narrow hush path chattering away with such energy and expression that you can hardly believe your eye when you learn from them that the wayfarer ho no companion." No more curious custom Is described by the women traveler than that elven below "In llenln," she writes, "when a king die his domestics solicit the honor of being burled with him, but this Is only accorded to a few of his great favorites. favor-ites. These slaves are let down Into the grave alive after thu corpse has been placed therein, graves of kings and chiefs In West Atrlc being nice, roomy apartments, generally about 12 feet by 8 feet by 14 feet Hut In llenln the graves have a floor of about 1C feet by II feet, with sides tapering to an aperture that can he clused by a single sin-gle flagstone. On the morning fallowing fallow-ing the Interment this flagstone was removed, and the people down below asked It they hsd found the king. This question was put to tnem every successive suc-cessive morning until, no answer being be-ing returned, It was concluded that the slaves had found their master. Meat was then roastrd on the gravestones and distributed among the people, with a plentiful supply of drink." |
