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Beads and Telegraph "Wire Fashionable Attire in the Wilds of Africa
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ever hoard of th.; Wjkikuyu?
There sro nrt than a mill on
of them In hill a L of AT. lea.
They llo on ti e hlg lnnde J at
east or her and about Mount Kenli. Wl I :h
I mora to tlia north. I t' an ed their eot;n
try shortly nfter 1 vlng Na'rohl. tie capi
tal of British East Afrlcn. Tlint tun l at
the end of a m rlra of hlyhhini's. It l on
the western edge of a pllm an! tha lnrd
rises beyond It. We m tf :el over ?.vtn
feet In twenty-four mile at'd then fo ind
ourselves' among ti e ia'e of th
curiona people. We could ct their II tl ?
farm everywhere. They ta':e up pa'cliai
of woodland and burn off the Ire a. Af;er
that they work the gioinrt to dca-.h
for a few yeara. arid then go off to taka up
patches somewhere ele. 8 nr ft thl
larmi are no b'gger than a lei t; It,
othera cover a quarter ef en a' re an1 eome
twice as much. The fluids are not f,neel.
and now and thin a rl.lno or h ppo g ts
In and wallows w hile near the w o la ids
tho monkeys pull up the crops. The cMef
thins; raised Is Indian corn. I see ho
women e-verywhero weuklng th feldt.
Half nude,' they bend low, ptillnr we ds
and digging the ground over with hoes. In
iront places the men rqi.a' arnurd on thi
round and keep them up to th1r w,rk.
Tlie more wives a man has the richer lie la;
and the mora lie drives his wivs Hie b t'er
h:s farm. Indeed the cheapest cau'.e here
are human cattle.
Wear Crease, flay and Wire,
The chief dress of the Wa.lkuyu eon
st.'its of grease, clay and te'egraph wlr .
The grease makea their brown siun shln.
the red clay gives It a copper hue, and the
telegraph wire loads their arms, necks and
ankles. The grease la usually mutton fat
and the clay Is the red aoil found every
where. The more ramicl the fat Urn better
they seem to like It. The averg- man o.'
woman smells hleh to Heav. n, and ono
can distingulxh a native's cxiste-u'e hefjra
he gets to him. They soa.; Iheiir hair who.
this grease, and utnier tho tro; I al sun
you can almoBt hear the stuff ols.le Ti ev
stiffen their huh with clay ao that it can
be put up In all sorts of shapes, making
their headgear a pale brlck-ru.-t color, i
examined one man's heud the other day.
It was covered with something like 1,0
Individual curls which stood out over his
pate like the snakes of the Medusa. E .ch
curl was an Inch long and It hnd bm
twisted by a professional hairdresser.
Pipe Steins as Esr Plasm.
This man had three long ple s ems In
each ear. Each was as big around as a
lead pencil and of about the same length.
It was fastened through a holo made In
the rim of the car by a kind of brat a
button, and these three stems ta. dl X
out on each aide his head looked almost
like horns, save that they projected from
the ears, lie had beads in the lobjs and
one of the men with him had the lobe oi
his ear ao stretched that It held a plug na
big as my fist. I bought tho plug of him
for 1 cents, and the man then took tha
two lobes of his ears and Joined them to
gether under his chin and tied them there
with a bit of string in order that they
might not catch on a branch or something
else as he went through the forest.
This second man had a brass collar about
Ma neck and coils of brass wire about each
wrlat and over the biceps of each arm.
His only clothing consisted of a atrip of
dirty white cotton which was fastened
over one shoulder and foil to his thighs.
Ho had pronounced negro features and
where the red clay had worn off his skin
was as black aa my boots.
Where Cattle lleep with People.
These Waklkuyu live In small villages.
Their towns look like collections of hay
cocks until you come close to them and
whan you get Inside you find that they
contain aa many animals as men. The
houses are thatched huts built about Six
feot apart In circles around an enclosure
In which the cattle, sheep and goats are
kept at night. The sheep and goats often
get Inside the huts, and, as for the chick
on s, they go everywhere. Each circle of
huta usually belongs to one family, a chief
and his relatives thus living together. The
huts have wooden walls about four feet
high with conical roofs. The wood is
chopped out of the trees with the native
axes,, the boards being about eighteen
inches or two feet In width. They are
mado by the natives, a man and his wives
requiring about ten days to build a hut.
The wood used la soft and the kind Is regu
lated by the government, which charges
the natlvea Hi cents for enough wood to
build one hut.
In addition to the huts, each family haa
two or three granaries to keep its winter
supply of Indian eorn. These are made
with wicker walls and wicker floors and
are raised a foot or eighteen lnchea off the
ground. They are usually about aa big
around as a hogshead and alx feet In
height. They have thatched roofa
What They Ent.
The Waklkuyu are practically vegetarians.
They live on corn, beans, sweet potatoes
and a kind of millet. They have a few
cattle and some sheep, but they consider
them too valuable to be .killed and they
only eat them when the cattle are alck
or become Injured In soma way and have
to be killed. They have no chickens and
. eat neither fowls nor eggs. The reason
for this Is that chickens crow, add In the
past the locality of a village could be told
by the cocks, and thereby brought down
Its enemies and slave traders upon It.
These people have many dishes like ours.
They eat roasting ears off the cob and
they boll beans and corn together, making
a kind of auccotaah. They have also a
gruel made of millet and milk and If one
of the family become sick they sometimes
give him mutton broth. In their cooking
they use clay Jars, which they rest upon
stones and build fires under them. They
use gourds for carrying milk and water
and make baga of woven bark ranging In
alse from a pint to four bushels. Such
bags are used for all sorts of purposes
and the larger ones serve for the trans
portation of their grain to the markets,
Wives Werth Moary.
The Waklkuyu looks upon the females
of hla family aa so much available capital.
If a man baa fifteen or twenty wlvea he Is
supposed to be wealthy beyond the dreams
of avarice. I am told that many of the
chlefa have a doaen or more and that since
the British have begun to exploit the
forests, the more Industrious of the native
men have been rapidly Increasing their
families. A good girl, large and healthy,
will bring aa much aa fifty sheep, and a
man may pay down ten aheep and agree
to bring In the balance from month to
month aa himself and wives earn them.
He goes to the wooela and cuta down treea,
being paid so much per attck. If a man
worka hard he may make 11 Hi or ll.U a
month, and If, In addition, he haa aeveral
women to help him. hia Income may be
doimled or trebled.
In such work the men cut the wood and
the women carry It on their backs to the
markoC They are loaded up by thrlr hus
bands, a piece of goatskin separating the
rough sticks from the women's hare akin,
the burden being tied on by a rope of vines
which rests ea the forehead. In addition to
this goat skin ea he hack, the wsuaa eevt-
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ally has an apron or skirt of skin,
which Is tied about the waist and reaches
to the knees and sometimes be!ow them.
A good lusty girl can carry as much as
200 pounds of wood in this way and h.-r
husbund does not scruple to load her with
all she will take. I made some Inquiries
as to the prices of such women and a'n
told thnt a girl Is supposed to be reidy
for sale at 12 years and that :o In caf.la
or sheep Is an avernge price. For th's sum
the woman should be large, well formed
and fairly good looking. Ugly girls and
lean girls go cheap and some such are
often unmarried. In which case they have
New Version of Noah's Ark by
NEW version of the story of
I "Noah's Ark and the Deluge"
I has been brought up here from
juexico oy i.ari L,umholts as a
result of a visit which the lib
erality of the late Morris K.
Jesup enabled him to make to the Hulchol
tribe of Indians. Mr. I-umholta also ob
tained an Interesting collection of articles
imtstrutftiff the domestic and religious life
of these Indiana, and It haa been installed
In the American Museum of Natural His
tory. The Hulchols have practically been an
unknown race living in a remote and al
most Inaccessible valley tn the wilds of
the Slerre Madre. in the state of Jalisco,
Mexico. They number some 4.0O0. and their
habitation Is a territory alxiut forty miles
long by twenty-five miles wide, wulled In
by atoep mountain barriers of from 5.UU0
to t 000 feet elevation.
Here unvlstted and almost completely
Isolated from the outside world, they are
today said to be living In the same state
of aboriginal culture as when Cortes first
put his foot on Mexican soli. The Hulchol
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Curious and Romantic Incidents Brought
A Japaaeae Bride.
ARRIS MERTON LYON of New
York, a magazine writer, for
merly of Kansas City, Mo., an
nounces that in May he wll
marry Hyacinth Tawana, a 17-year-old
Japanese girl, who will
come from Japan to Ran Francisco, where
Mr. Lyon will meet her. The wedding will
be there.
All Mr. Lyon's friends at once demanded
detaila of the obvious romance attached
to his announcement, and it appeared that
the meeting of the two waa nearly two
yeara ago. Lyon had been living several
months In Japan when one evening he
went to the Garden of Many Lights at
Nagasaki. A featlval was In progress, all
the men wearing the bldaous masks of
Japan, and the women were playing upon
aanilaena.
There was a sudden disturbance and
Lyon saw a young girl being trampled by
several men who were fighting. He res
cued the girl, and in attempting to quiet
the fighters was himself arrestee! A
friend at the American consulate secured
Mr. Lyon's release.
The following morning the father of
Hyacinth, the girl reecuttd, called to thank
the American. Lycn waa Introduced to
the girl and Bays they fell In love at sight.
He began teaching bar English. When he
waa called back to America be promised
to return and marry her. Since then, buai
ness engagements have prevented hla mak
ing such a long trip. Tha girl haa b en
atudylntt Ekigllah at a mission school. Re
cently Lyoa wrote the girl's parents asking
U eh might be penniUed t earns t this
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to work for their parents.
I saw a half dozen Kandl, Including two
women, at one of he stations between
here and the Eeearpment. The men were
Hlmot naked, save that they wore cloaks
of monkey skins with fur on and strips of
cowskln about the waist. The women had
on waist cloths and blankets of cowhides
tanned with the hair on. These blankets
were fastened over one shoulder, leaving
the arms and half of the breasts bare.
These Nandl were walking along the rail
road track and were closely watched by the
station agents. I am told they are great
thieves and that the British have had
afford, therefore, a fresh and untrodden
field of anthropological research,
i They live mostly in circular houses of
huts made of loose stones and mud, cov
ered with thatched roofa; their aacred god
houses are of similar shape, but much
larger. They dress In garments of their
own manufacture.
Mr. Lumholti was the first white traveler
to visit and dwell for a year or more
among this hermit race, '
country for the marriage and now she . Is
coming.
Got There by n lira In.
1' ml Urn ay tit by eight miles of snow
drifts, which kept even the rural carriers
Indoors, Joseph Beaver of Sterling, 111., a
farmer boy, set out to claim his bride, and
married her seven hours after the hour
set for the ceremony. He had to dig
through drifts from four to six feet deep.
The snow ruined his clothes, and he ar
rived at the brlde'a home practically ex
hausted and with both feet froxen. It was
necessary to go to the home of a pastor
two miles away to have the ceremony per
formed, as the wedding guegta would not
come and the preacher would nut brave
the drifts for the marriage fee.
Kara pre Leap Year Woes.
One unmarried man In St. I.onls has been
driven to matrimony by fear of leap year
proposals and the penalty of having to buy
allk dresses for all of the women ha had
de tern: laud to reject wlivn they sought to
marry him.
"Women rume to see me and Invited me
to call on them until I was afraid to stay
In my wfflce or go to their houues," said
tr. MorKiier, who waa married a few duya
ago to Mrs. Margery L. Moore Of Nash
ville, Tenn.
"I have been staying away from soolal
gatherings because so many women wanted
to marry me. Of coursv I was engaged to
marry Mrs. Moore. I couldn't very well
explain, and ao I Just had to avoid Uie
women altogether. Only last Sunday a
woman oam to my office and when I told
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trouble with them because they steal bolts
and rlveta which hold the rails to tha ties
and even climb the telegraph poles and
steal the wire. The women I saw had
colls of brass wire around their necks and
arms and long coils of similar wire tied to
strings In their ears. In their own coun
try telegraph wire brings aa big a price
as Jewelry, and they look upon tha strands
of Iron stretched from pole to pole along
the railroad just aa our women look upon
gold and silver jewelry. If the wires along
our tracks were made of gold and silver,
ao that one could snip off a section far out
In the woods and make a gold necklace for
The circumstances of the Ilulrhols make
rain a matter of prime necessity and
quite naturally their most Important gods
have some relation to providing rain
enough to grow good crops. The Hul
chols are from the cradle to ths grave
more or less occupied with prayers for
water, and much of their time Is given up
to the preparation and observance of rain
making feasts and In tha fashlon'ng of
various symbolic offerings, Intended to
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her there was no hope for her she fell In
my arms. I didn't know before how she
loved me.
"Another woman told me about a friend
of hers who wanted to marry me. She told
mn to go see this woman, whu Is llili,
but I didn't go because I wouldn't let her
marry me, and I did not want to have to
buy a allk dress for her.
"But now that I am married, I am safe.
Intuition told me that I had met my af
finity when I became acquainted with Mrs.
Moore. Everything came out Just aa it had
been predicted. It was foretold. It was
through a fortune teller and my horoscope
that I knew I was to marry this woman.
Everything waa described Just a It is, and
I knew I was to be married In January.
For ten yeara I have been a widower."
Pops to a Man In Jail.
Cupid used leap year to pry through the
walls and bolts of Jull and bring about a
wedding In Minneapolis, though the bride
groom will enter married life In prison
stripes. And it la ail a case of woman's
love, strengthened by sympathy engendered
by witnessing another's trouble. This It
was that made her usk a convicted man
through the bars of his cell door to wed
her.
The principals In this e ase are Miss Emily
Blei'T, 1?J Fouith s.reit. and c'hurles
Eakin, whose address is at present th
county Jail, tthu Is the bride-elect; be is
the busband-to-be.
Since childhood the couple had known
each other, lloth are now 21 years old.
For ths laat few years they have been
"keeping; company," but no declaration ef
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his girt out of It, you would hava about the
oondttlons that prevail her as to tha tele
graph. The native men are crasy for iron.
They can use the bolts and rivets for alung
shots to brain their enemies, and ail tha
Iron they have had in the past haa oome
from digging up the ore and smelting tt.
The Nandl live northwest of here on a
plateau which contains Iron depoafU, and
they make a boatneaa of mining and emett
Ing. Blnce the railroad haa been built
they hare ootne down from time to time
and raided the tracks, and the British have
had several little war with them to keep
them off. They bad one in MOO and an
Hermit Indian Tribe
propitiate the gods who are tnoogbt to have
controled over the clouds and rain.
Appeals to their gods are made largely
with the aid of arrows to which are at
tached articles emblematlo of the purpose
of their prayer. When the Indian wants to
hunt deer, till the soli, build a house or
marry he has to make an arrow to Insure
success tn the undertaking.
The arrows are stuck Into the seats of
the ceremonial chairs In the god houses or
Into the straw roofs and places In sacred
caves and spots where some god lives.
One of the most Important of the Hulchol
feasts Is that of the kl kull. This Is a small
cactus plant which grows In the central
part of Mexloo. It Is thought to be neces
sary to procure It every year to insure the
oountry against drought, and In October
parties of twelve or more start on a pil
grlmmage to the interior.
This Journey consumes forty-three days.
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About by Activity of Cupid
love had passed between them.
Then came Eakln's trouble. He was sent
enced to five months tn ths county Jail
on the charge of appropriating $lo0 which
belonged to the International Txt Book
company.
Unwilling to ask the woman of hla choice
to marry a man who had been convicted
of crime, Eukln believed that he and Miss
Bteger would never be married. It was
here that leap year entered the romance.
Miss Steger visited Kakln in the Jail, told
him that she would marry him if he wished
and when he had consented to the mar
riage she arranged the details of the Jail
wedding.
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Call of the Wild.
"Will you meet and marry me in Denver
Saturday at high noon?" wired L. E.
Macklncon, who travels throughout the
west for a New York house.
"You bet I will. Leave this afternoon
with mother fo; Denver, reaching thvre
Friday evening," waa the answer from Miss
Florence Green of Poplar bluffs. Mo. They
met In Denver and were married on sched
ule time.
The ceremony was the climax of a ro
mance that began some months ago at
Poplar Bluffa.
Mr. Maeklnnon said: "I got very lone
some at Grand Junction and the telegram
to Miaa Greso was the result. Then caiuo
the answer, and I knew everything waa all
right."
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Through the crossing f telephone wires
Attorney Waiter K. Thompsln, a Prtaeje-
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other In 1903.
These Nandl aire among the braveatt of
the African natives. They are much Dee
the Masai, dellghttng tn warfare and ready
to fight aa the least provocation. The?
are more etvUtsvsd thaa the "WeJilkuyei and
do considerable work tn Iron and leathers
They bare cattle, sheep and goats and a
few do some farming, take the Masai,
they bleed their cattle end drink ths Wood
hot, sometimes mixing It wttli tMr por
ridge. After bleeding ther Otoe the
we em da, so that the cattle grow well agntn.
They are good hunters and bare large
dogs, wltb wbaob (hay ran ttae sauna eto
On the return of the krkratl swJiws with
their loads of the plant a great feasting
of dancing, oocnpytag a week or more, is
held. ,
A group of the kfkull hunters In their
ceremonial oosrmnes are here shown. Thfl
tobacco gourd forms a consptc-aoos part
of their outfit, each enrryirur a dosen or
more of them. On their home-made straw
hats plumes are stack.
The Hulchol ark is used as on of the
extreme means of getting rain. In times
of drouth it is set afloat. It consists of
a hollowed log. A pteoe of earved wood
glued on the tip la Intended to represent
deer horns; Its purpose It to entangle the
craft in the 'bushes when the water sub
sides and thus to stop it. Inside the ark
are grains of sacred corn tn multiples of
five.
Her Is the Huloho story of the ark and
flood: Long ago, before the white man
came to the country, a Hulchol was at
work felling trees In the preparation of a
field for planting, but each day he found
that the trees he had cut down on th
previous day had grown up aain.
Finally he discovered that It was aa old
woman named Or and mother Growth who
kept restoring them. Bhe la the mother of
the gods; the earth belongs to her, and
she lives In the under world. All vegeta
tion Is her product, and she told the man
that ha waa working In vain. A great
flood was coming, she said, and It waa not
more than five days off.
"Make a box from the fig tree as long as
yourself and fit with a good cover," she
said. "Take with you five grains of com
of each color, five beans of each color,
take also the fire and five squash stems
to feed It with and take with you a black
female dog."
The Indian did as Grandmother Growth
had told htm. On the fifth day he had the
box ready and placed In It the things he
was Instructed. Then he entered, tak
ing with him a dog, and the old woman
put the cover on. Then she seated herself
on top of the box with a macaw perched
on her shoulder.
The ark rode on the water one year to
ward the south, the next year toward the
north, the third toward the west, tho
fourth toward the east, and ths fifth year
It rose upward and all the world was
filled with water. The next year the water
began to subside, and the box lodged on a
mountain, where It may still be seen.
The man took off the oover and saw that
all the oountry was still full of water, but
the macaws and the parrots made valleys
with their beaks and the water began to
subside. Then the land began to dry up
and treea and grass sprang forth, aided by
Grandmother Growth.
The man lived in a cave and found an
Indian woman. They were married and
the man had a large family, and by and by
his sons and daughters married, and thus
the Hulchol people were created.
ton graduate, with offices in the William
son building In Cleveland, started a flirta
tion with Miss F. K. Grace Wilson, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mra. H. K. Wilson. Next
day they were married by long distance
telephone. Rev. C. C. Wilson, pastor of the
Christian church at Shelby, performing the
ceremony by wire. On their first conversa
tion over tha wire Mr. Tbompklns was Im
pressed by Miss Wilson's voice. Bhe learned
his name and subsequent conversations re
sulted In their meeting. The wedding fol
lowed a brief courtship.
Wanted t Be Surprised.
Leigh Lynch waa a happy max. the father
of a family of children in which was cen
tered his unselfish hope. He used to carry
his business cares and pleasures home,
where he was always sore of ready and
generous sympathy. For several years be
was treasurer of the Union Square Theater
In New York. One evening at dinner, In
the presence of his little daughter, Marie,
he mentioned to Mrs. Lynoh that the gross
receipts of the week had risen to an un
precedented height. The next day Marie
asked to be taken to the matinee.
"All right, dumpling," assented the fond
father. "What seats would you BkeT"
"Well, papa," shs replied. "Id Ilk to
have them grocery seats you tailed us
about." New York Times.
' Kiad ef gsih Wasted.
Fend Mother Listen, Mildred, and I'll
read to you about heaven and Its beautiful
golden streets.
Email Mildred I don't want to hear about
it, mamma. I'd rather wait till I get ther
it can be killed with spears. They
sjso trap game by digging wcelite Rluiped
pMs and covering them over with grnss.
They have donkeys, which they use to
oesrry th troo ore from the mines tn their
ftxraaoes, where they turn It Into pig metal.
Tb uae peopl have about tho same cus
tom of uuasrtage as the Mnsal. The young
gtrts Bve with the warriors until they
reach tnawrsxsjaabl age, and th mar
ring Is Bswajs a matter of bargain and
sake. The price of a gooel-looking girl Is
three goats, a ow and a good fat ben, and
th belle of th trfbe may bring twice ns
muoh. Among the Nandl the woman wlri
hears th most children la considered 'he
most valuable. Bhe who has twins is a
mascot and Is given a eow, th mTTk of
Which, goes exclusively to her. Th younger
women of this tribe wear snaall aprons of
leather, ornamented with bead, and the
young med go practically naked. The
married men dress much like those I saw
on th track.
I understand that the Nandl live about
the same as the other natlvea about here.
They have circular huts of boards roofed
with thatch. Each hut has a fireplace In
the center and on each side of this a
little be-d consisting of a platform of mud
built along the wall of the hut. The people
sleep on ths mud and use round blocks of
wood for pillows. The children sleep with
their parents until they are 8 years of age.
when they are shoved off into a smnller
hut eutstde. built especially for them. They
believe In witches and medicine men, and
they have a sky god to whom they pray
every morning and to whom they sacrifice
when time are hard.
Peopl Who Drees la Beads.
Nearly all theso Africans believe tn witch
doctors, Th Wakamba, whoa country X
passed through on my way to Nairobi, not
infrequently kill th women of their tribe
when they are charged with witchcraft,
and ther Is a record of something like
forty having been murdered this way
within th last two or three years. I saw
these Wakamba on the Athl plains and In
and about Nairobi. They ars tall and fine
looking, having woolly hair, rather thick
lips and almost straight noses. They wear
but little clothing. Borne of the women I
saw were clad In nothing but beads. They
had bead leggings reaching from their
ankles almost to their knees and bead
waistbands embracing their bodies from the
breast to the thighs, with short bead aprons
hanging down at the front. They wore
wristlets consisting of about twenty colls
of brass wire as thick aa a lead pencil and
they had other colls of wire above and
below the biceps encircling their upper
arms. They had also necklaces of wire
and wire earrings, but all this failed to
hide the greater part of their persons. Ths
girls were fat, plump and well fed, and
their dark-brown skins had all the luster
of a briarwood pipe well oiled.
gavlns: th African Forests.
In coming from the plains over the
mountains Into the Great Rift va'ley. I
rode for miles through the woods and had
a chanoe to see what the British govern
ment Is doing to save the forests. Con
trary to the general opinion, this country
has but little woods except In the hills,
and lumber la high. A great deal of that
used at Mombasa and Nairobi Is biouglif
In from Norway,- and some comes fior
the United States. Leaving the Klkuy,
hills there are woods all the way to thw
ridge known as the Escarpment and they
extend for some distance down the shirs
of the Rift valley. Here In the valley It
self the country Is mostly pasture and
there is no timber of any account in
the forest region, above referred to, the
woods are thin, and In many plaoes the
virgin timber has been cleared by tha
Waklkuyu, who burn the ground over In
order that they may use the virgin so'il
for garden patches. The government is
now prohibiting this and Is doing all that
It can to save the trees remaining and to
build up new wood lands. I met here at
Navalsha an Australian who Is one of the
beads of the forestry - department. He
tells me that the government has estab
lished nurseries at Mombasa, Kalbrobl,
JQsoarpment and Landalvl. Near Mom
basa they are setting out teak trees, and
at Nairobi they have planted a large
number of acacia and eucalypti, which
they have Imported from Australia,. Th
eucalyptus grows well at Nairobi. I sa.v
tree there which were seventy-five feet
high, and that although they were only
I years oil.
Honkers aatsf Wood Lands.
This fortst manager tells me he Is labor-
leg under the greatest of disadvantages
In hts eft arts to raise new trees. He ssvys
hs has to fight not or.ly the natives, but
also th mjnkeys, baboons and other wild
animals. The woods are full of monkeyi,
and among them Is a dog-faced baboo t
which grows aa big as a 10-year-old by.
This animal barks like a dog and acts IHe
a devil. It watches the planting and tl e i
sneaks In at night and digs up ths tren.
If seeds are put In, It digs them up anJ
bites them In two, and If the trees thou I
sprout It pulls the sprouts out of t -i
ground and breaks them up and thro.vs
them away. As a result the nurseries have
to be watched during the day by m n wltn
guns In their hands. If the men hHV no
guns the baboons will Jump for the nea est
tree and make grimaces out If th
branches, only to return to the devus lnf
work aa soon as the watchmen go awav.
If guns are brought oat the animals realise
their danger and run for their lives.
These monkeys also dig up the Indian
corn planted by the Waklku.iu, and they
are said to be far worse than crews and
blaskblrd oemhtned.
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