. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa . a able to that thrilling event he moved higher up themountain, and now installs therein the numerous ob-jects of the royal affection in regular succession as theiryouthful attractions begin to fade. Here, in this park,too, were the granaries that supplied the baby-farmwith maize. And you might guess for a week at theshape and dimensions of these granaries—for therewere many of them—and miss the mark. Imagine atree with many stout branches; and hanging fromevery branch, a number of ears of corn in the husk,made up in big bunches. Then picture
. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa . a able to that thrilling event he moved higher up themountain, and now installs therein the numerous ob-jects of the royal affection in regular succession as theiryouthful attractions begin to fade. Here, in this park,too, were the granaries that supplied the baby-farmwith maize. And you might guess for a week at theshape and dimensions of these granaries—for therewere many of them—and miss the mark. Imagine atree with many stout branches; and hanging fromevery branch, a number of ears of corn in the husk,made up in big bunches. Then picture to yourselfa number of such trees scattered about a small park,and you have before you the granary that astonishedmy unaccustomed eyes in Moschi. After no end ofslipping and sliding and scrambling up steep paths,we entered a big boma enclosed with a neat (lrac;cnahedge. It contained a large, barn-like house of Swahili,or coast, architecture, besides several large specimens ofthe usual bee-hive houses of the country. A still larger. MANDARA OF MOSCHT. 89 Swahili house was in process of construction. On thefront wall of the chiefs residence was fastened a mirror,six feet long and three deep, and seated on a benchwhere he could admire himself in it, was a man as re-markable for a negro chief—though as yet less widelyknown,—as the late Mteza of Uganda. He has lost one eye; but the other seems to haveabsorbed the light and cuteness of the departed inaddition to its own; and every moment, as we sat andtalked, it roved in restless curiosity all over our lobe of his left ear was stretched to enormous pro-portions, and passed round a wheel-like disc of woodlike a rubber tyre. Occasionally Mandara poses beforehis people as a big medicine-man able to control theelements. The chiefs of this part of the Dark Conti-nent are not given to rain-making and the assumptionof supernatural abilities to the extent that we find themin the Niletic provinces, as described by Emin Pa
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