New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1922, Page 16

BAPTIST MINISTER TELLS OF JUNGLE (Continued From Fourteenth I'age.) storms that its course in discerned for almost 60 Many a time the minister has seen vessels wrecked in these sudden storms, and on board lost ihlesome Superstition, Warlike tribes were a continuous | sourpe of dunger. The superstition of | the native, the ignorance of their | rulers and their blind faith in eratty | witeh doctors, voo-doo venders and | medicine men were the eause of acon- | tinuous source of danger to the mis slonary train “On the gold coast,” sald Lev, Mr. Ross, "I seen slkulls of ‘men in numbers §o great | they could he uscd to rear a large edi flee In one place we r ped from ! the water a woman, who, with 14 others, had been tied to a post on the water's edge and left there to drown with the rising river gacrifice tod the fish god."” 2an time it was necessary to take a wide course to avoid some na tive village becanse of the hostility | of the inhabitants, The travelers | wonld be met at the gates ol the vil lage by the medicine men, painted in wierd and grotesque manner, who these ocean can be miles out to sea near the consty have as the would dance and rattle a bunch of black heads on a handle, or sprinkle hls “magic’” powdér on the ground, to | warn off the hated white man from the village. Sold Out for a Drink. Tt was the firm belief of the natives that the entrance of a white man into the villages where there were copper mines would cause the mines to “dry up” and the copper would become worthless. Tn one case the witch doc- tor was prevailed upon to be “asleep’ when they passed in, witch docto being as susceptible to bribe some more civilized men, In fact they were so crooked that, sacred he believed they were, one witch doc- tor sold his whole outfit, headdress With horns, heads, magic powder and | all for a jug of native palm wine, Embarrassing Situation, In the village mentioned above, the men at the head of the expedition were disturbed all night long by a Woman dancing about their tent and shaking some kind of a rattle. In the morning they found that her hus- band had died during the night and that she had blamed the white man for his death. She dragged the body to Mr. Ross's tent, and danced around the tent all night, wishing on him fatal “curses.”” It'was with extreme difficulty and only because of the fact that the community contained a young girl, whom Mr. Ross had cured 0f a partial blindness a few days in a neighboring village, that made their escape. Example of Faith, “It would do our modern churches Bood to sec the sublime faith those heathen nations had in their r(‘lil.{inn." said Rev. Mr. Ross. “A native would tie a bundle of old rags on his door and go off, 200 or 300 miles hunting buffalo or elephants. After being away for days and weeks, he would return with the serene confidence that the bundle of rags on the door had protected his home and family a;ul warded off all possible evil,” of ble ago they ju Women’s $8.50 Dark Brown Strap . Pumps—$7.45 Women's $7.00 Cherry Tan Oxfords w—=$4.95 Women's Cherry Tan Boots, Nearly all sizes. Women I'rench Women's Women's Blac Oxfords, new square toes. Women's 3-Buckle Black Pumps. Were $10.00. toe. Now All our women's wool, and sil Centemeri Brands. Women's 4-Buckle Overshoes. close out at New shipment just ieceived, Low Heel 4-Buckle Over- shoes to fit flat heel brogue shoes. (As He Apneared When a Baptist M REV. WILLIAM ROSS ssionary in Belgian Congo) ley. they made from the juice of the palm | and the calabash ing to the mi: powerful in its w {One time a native climbed a tree to have scen negroes get filled up with get drunk. Ross, then get climbed the tree to get drunk. The the village, resulting in a tribal war ¢ of the palm was running and the | with ash was full. He drank so much |many cases the depredations go even Mr. calak that he became down the tree head first, stopping at|and women and the war the bottom with u broken neck. The learn, what they natives in the killed refused to have anything to do' banquet, probably David Manning’s %fl&‘ '@flel‘ Shoe Store As America ha s0 did Crocodiles were a souree of worri- | with the body because he did not live ment, have a fetish in whig some divine some distance safely through a part the river abounding in crocodiles | and attributed his escape to an empty [kept up for several days and finally | cartridge would |in that town. So they carried it to the border line of the next town and threw isa There they refused to accept it becanse he had not died in that town and it was thrown back. This Some times a native he believed One man sy power. m| compromise was reached by both towns eing o leave the body lay had its booze trou-|half way across the border, where ind the Congo val-|the whitened hones of the unfortunute natives had a drink'man were found weeks later.” Do Not Always Compromise ‘This booze, accor: But not always do the towns agree ionary, was almost as'so easily. Many times: Mr. Ross and gun powder. other pioneers in the Dark Continent case he had found. The Fatal Drink Africa I'here the “In America,” says Rev. palm juice and go to the next viliag> They get drunk first and|looking for fight. Usually this means up a tree.” But this man there will be a fire which destroys many killed and wounded. In heipless and went | farther than that. 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[ when perience | with cannibals himself, Mr, Ross suld stamping asled if he had any € Ihe w out | quite Instrumental in w lot of it, He said he had pever white man killed but that the feasts usually were flned to black war prisoners, although he who was o mission lary and was killed and caten by can nibals on the South fea Tslands, l Danger in Water Dangers In the water were not to he Iscoffed at either, Aftér a heavy pull on the oars of a boat going through |the rapids on some part of the river, {the negroes usually jumped into the ! v for an instant to get cooled off, (At one time a negro captain In Zan- {zibar dived overboar | for a dip. ‘I lers was a flash of a long dark body, a I piercing seream, a rush of bloddy water to the surface and the expedi- 'tion was short a man, another vietim {to the gaping jaws of the dreaded crocodile. Farly Missions in Africa Efforts of Livingstone and others were not the first steps taken by the |rest of the world, or at least Burope |to civillze Africa, according to Ilev, Ross. Away back in the 15th century Ithe PPortugese government sent a num- |ber of traders to the const of Africa. I With each trading vessel there was a | Catholic priest, These priests were lconsclentions, self sacrificing men, who went ahout their work in a de- {vout, Christian maner. According to [the minigter, they “were such splendid {fellows” that within 50 years there !stood near the mouth of the Congo {a large cathedral and the people were inning to become Christians. Then Ithese old priests began to die off and their places were taken by others more unscrupulous who gave their time and attention to slave trading, kidnapping negro children and sending them to England, until years later, nothing re- mained of the work of the pioneer priests but crumbling ruins. Toys for the Idle Rich It was quite a fad in the later days of the 15th century to ship negro boys {and girls to Furope as siaves, “The society women of that period wanted a negro boy as a mascot, much the same a8 gome society women now want |dogs or monkeys,” he says. The mis- |stonaries had considerable to do with stamping out the slave business, as did British war vesscls. Different Calibre Here Speaking of the negro in America, Mr. Ross says he is not the same moral calibre of the Christian negro in Africa. The echo of American slave day and United States civilization has made him a far inferior d¢haracter than his African brother. Need of Medical Treatment There was much need of medical work on the trip. Sometimes men would be kept at one of the stations for weeks and months, after having been mauled by crocodiles or ele- phants, or undergoing the ravages of the jungle fever. At one time a man |died in a village and another man, [not popular with the witch doctor, was accused by the latter of having |caused the death, although he was |three hundred miles away at the time. |The accused man was tied to a post and given a cup of poison to drink. |The superstition was that if he were innocent the poison would fail to work. seen a and eaten, con had a friend, | Victim Dies, . | Of course the deadly drug got into | his veins and he began to show signs of approaching death. 'Then his three Men’s $10 Tan Scotch Grain Boots, Now—$6.95 Men's $6 Black English Fibre Soled Boots, Now—$3.95 tch Grain Shoes, Brogue every pair a Walk-Over $6.95 Men's Cordovan Lace Boots and Oxfords, not all sizes Sho “Van Correct for dancing and $7.45 AND WOOL HOSIERY This includes the well SALE ON WOMEN'S SILK i and wool hosiery reduced in price. -known Phoenix, Tripletoe and $2.95 ’ Tweedie Bootops now. . All Spats Reduced to..... igh heels only. Price $1.00 100 pairs Wales Goodyear First Quality Rubbers to WA HEBIB o v5 s o v o ¢in o fit 50c 211 MAIN STREET wive with Iy final tist tent too hou ina Brit for mad reached hy them across, latter two In his book, s and his childr him guiity of the crime fell upon him | knives and slashed him snvage He was rescued by party and taken to the station where he was nursed for a long time, but he Iy died Death of Hartley, A tragic occurrence in the memory of the explorer was when three white men stuggered into a camp one night suffering with the fever, the expedition was at Manyanga, the station founded yanga now is one of th by missions on the lon far gone nded from one dying condition, ish flag, 15 hours one died, in a rude coffin made from the trunk of a tree which had, been chopped down as a door for a hut, and buried with simple ceremony. evening the second man died, and the next morning the third was dead. The were wrapped native grgss buried with the same simple rites. Bently Was Wrong, “Ploneering o from Mr Pullman train, were on the other side of the river and fired their rifles to attract their An answering glven®hem and a boat sent to bring They were found to be In the last stage of fever, and were to accept Fhad been hunted by war tribes and place to another Iln‘ll they reached Manyanga almest They carrled a After heing the writer refers to the story, but ap pears to be wrong on the length of time the men lived . after reaching Manyanga, Mr, Hently was a Baptist missionary In charge of another ex [ pedition, who took over the Daptist | station after the:return of Rev, Mr | Ross to Kurope, Bently says: “John Hartley' left England, December 8 1888, with two engineers, They @ rived at Underhill while T was there, and went up country with the who brought me down, They were sent forward on their road with all due advice and counsel, hut on the second day of their journey they were overtaken hy a storm. Their bundles of bhedding were wrapped in India rubber sheets, but so badly fast- ened that the rain got fn and wet e blankets, They ought to have driell during the neon hour next day, hut were somehow until they arrived at Manyanga. ' What Bengly Missed, “Ross could then wring the water out of them, It is a story difficult to understand, perhaps the weariness of the road and fever made them care- less, (Note—They encountered the hostile tribes after leaving Bently and therefore were unable to pay atten- tion to their blankets,) It is not sur- prising that they all arrived at Man- yanga in a fever, I'or a week (here agaln Bently seems somewhat mis- taken) Ross tended them and tried to combat the fever, with no success. The engineers died the same day and the following afternoon, Iebruary 29, 1884, Hartley died also." When asked about the food he ate en, adjudging the missionary At this time Ross. Man- largest Bap- Congo and s The men nt- signal was food. 'They cared for He was buried The same in cloth and were in the men | forgotten day by day | on hig journeys through the tropica of Africa, Mr, Itoss told some welrd stories of slekening concoctions, One of the most popular articles of food, he sald, was a kind of bhread made from flour derived from the cossava leuf, which smelled and tasted 1lke “hurnt feathers and glue” Croco- dile, hippopotamus and elephant meat were popular; Some of the men would sometimes shoot monkeys and eat them, Many a time the party traveled for days with nothing to eat, staggered along weak with hunger, their throats dry and parched and their tongucs so swollen from lack of water they almost choked, “But I never ate any monkey," sald the mine ister with) his characteristic humor, “I don't take any stock in Darwin- fsm, but 1 draw the line at monkey food because 1 have a kind of sneaky feeling there might be something in it and I don't want to be a cannibal." Graves Mark the Road, Referring to the death of Hartley, he said the dying man gave him a message to his mother. “I have stood by the deathbed of many soldiers and sailors in Africn as well as in the late war,” he sald, “but I never saw a man go out without a word ahout his mother,” Continuing thoughtfully, with a shade of sadness in his volce and the slightest hint of a quiver, he added, “Some of us, if we went up the Congo now, would not need the Pullman_trains, we would find our way by the graves we dug." Accbrding to Mr, Bently's book, the (Continued on Seventeenth Page). Congo,” by Rev. W. Holman Bently, HARTFORD ——— THRIFT SALE SATURDAY * GOSSARD CORSETS $2.75 Gossard laced-in-front Corsets, of pink coutil. Low bust, extra long hip. Sizes 21 to 80. Value $4.00—8§2.75. Satin bandeaux, lace trimmed top, hook back, extra length $1.19. SHOESTOR MISSES and CHILDREN $3.39 Sturdy shoes for misses and children. Made in tan and gray Elk Skin. All sizes 5 to 2. 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