RUBBER AND THE NATIVE.
[BY ANDREW LANG.]
"Somebody's honil ought to be punched for this," said Mr. Samuel Weller, vaguely, when he suspected un insult to the name of Pickwick. Perhaps mest readers will share Mr. Waller's
wrath, a wrath equally righteous and
B
futile,
BARCLAY,
PERKINS
FAMOUS
they sindy MF, LONDON STOUT.
account of the wareh of pivillation on the Upper Amazon. Cosmorce is tempting towards dividends, over a dying,
we are indig Mr. Inrdonbury, and though according to Bant vanagh, is a poople, about commercial cities in Africa, it is
try
там
reported far
to the Upper Anggon, and the cry ranches an but faintly. in pages of Mun, the. monthly journal of the Royal Anthropological does not even Institute. mention the nerous Or who are, ko tells us, rulibing out a people in tho quest for rubber. We cannot prevent it; are over, we liyin ginsy house, as far as our own, or our Colonists, treatment of the less developed races is consored. Our cruulties have scarcely ben baneful than our kindness to the
the They die of clociues abs of Australia. with which we cover their aboriginal ustedes, As well as of our whisky and rifles, our opium, and our imported diseases. But
Mr. Harden of the tradere ·
Panios, if such
RONG
of me dead bold shares in the rubber cam- companies exist, on the Amazon, if Hardenburg's report Tho suf of their proceedings he correst. ferers are the builte tribe on the Putumayo River, a large northern tributary of the Amazon, The extensive aren of operations is "at present in dispats between the three rival Republics of Pern, and Ecandor," and the Hitolo Colombia,
one of the local tribes,
18ir language is elementary in grammar,
T
destitute of articles and conjunctions, but is Belodians to the
to the ear. The people are not well made as regards their legs; but have brand chests, and that repugnant sight, a protruding abdomen, is very rare, and is likely to disappear influences, to the prople land, under elvilising
-Ball
hase next to nothing to ent. Many of the women
with "aro really beautiful,"
magnificent
figures," and a prulty attractiveness of a
rarely mot among civilised women'
u.type
The men de not inhellish themselves by wearing sticks of their thrust through their noses and the lobos
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EVERYWHERE.
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ears. The ustives not yet u
t under civilisation are DADY BURJOR & C°
like most uncontaminated
The
very peoples,
kind
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and hospitable. The womon, before the white Wholesale Wine & Spirit Merchants. men came, word "naturally chaste," and even polygamy was very rare: porhaps Mr. Harden- bury generalisos too frealy hon be calla chastity "a primitivo virtue so generally met with song people not yel in contact with mon. The Huitoto live, several families togethe:, in large, ron houses made of wood, much like the log house" of the Iroquois, but without windows, ask and stifling. On the pot of a strong kind of sauce. fire is niways are the whites came hunting only twit
peuple. for rubber, slept in Hammock of their own making, hat fo-day they are worked so hard by the rubber-collisions that the grantor part of them sleep on the ground, not having Uni .10 make hammock, which are now becoming extremely rare." By way of compen sation for such excessive labour I do not percive that the prople receive anything whatever, not Indeed, they aven instruction in religion. still worship the Sun and the Moon, nud at this the existense of a Superior same time believe A Boing called Usinama, and an inferior potontale named Talfoun, who is also supposed to be the They are uut said to worship spirit of evil.
Saruges neally give ir Saporior Being. such beings but little enit, as they are "too high, and too fr." They look to go, after death, to "happy hunting grounds," conserning which, strange to say, their ideas are vogne.
throw stones at the rubber collectors, whoever they may be The Huitoto custom of burying the dead under the door of the round hous cannot ho unitary, but the tribe went on preparing in spite of it, with plouty of things to cat till eiyilisation came up that way. One son futile fury, and pray the rival Republies of Porn, Colombin, sul Ecuador to settle their differenees, and try to civilise the rubber collectors in this No Man's Land, where eren missionaries do not appear to have any settlements: one are mentioned by Mr. Hardenburg. Probably the severest critics of missionaries will admit that among the Haltotes they can do nobody any harm! In favour of the rubber coliesters we may note that they are not said by Mr. Hardenburg to give the ust ves run and gin and whisky or anything eko! The arranrement. is almost incredibly one-sided, and no doubt there is more to be learned on the subject.
CHINESE PORK IMPORTE INTO ENGLAND.
Early this month two large consignments of frozen Chinese pigs arrived at Liverpool by the stemmers Triano and Poona, which between thers carry close upon 10,000 carcases; in ad- dition these stoumort bring about 23,000 cases of eggs and over 15,000 cases or boxes of dunks, poultry. snip, mallards t
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March ASSAYE
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MALWA
Tons
..11000 ..11000
FRIDAY
March 10
March 24
ů
MACEDONIA 10500
April 1
April 7
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March
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DEVANHA
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April 21
April 29
May
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Their chief hauling weapon, as is natal on the Amazon, is the blow gun, a deadly tube blow tiny arrows, the tips through which they poisoned with curare, the fatal drug used in du Mr. Har Crima de l'Omnibus." Boingober's denburg saw a large dog, struck by one of these "drop deal before he could run five
As was the case with the Chinese pigs brought NORD DEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN The light throwing spears have also
to Liverpool Hix months ago, the carca3DA oisoned tip. Heary wooden swords were used ·
Local Government and would split a man's head from do not comply with crown to chin. The people fish with the fruit Board regulations in certain technicalities, therefore, the health authorities of a tree as bait (it is credibly reported that and, tront take leather bells strung on a bait book), have refused them admittance. The carcason but they are more apt to poison a pool with the will, therefore, simply be landed and placed milky juice squeezed from the root and loaves under bond in cold storage until reshipped, of a plant, a devios not unknown of our own probably to the Isle of Man, for curing into
celebrated for its verdure and its bacon and ham.
in
in
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February
8 March
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March
8
April
6700
March
22 May
4203
4700
April
5
May
4600
April
19
J12710
6700
3
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4500
Muy
31
July
6700
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July
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Capt. B. WILHELMI "LUETZOW,"
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About
2nd November, Saturday, 5th
Nov., at Daylight
About 15th November.-
" BORNEO"
5,050 End of November. Capt F. SEMELL.
PROPOSED SAILING FROM HONGKONG
STEAMERA
*MANCHURIA
27,000 Tons...
THURSDAY,
21,000
27,000
21 000
.11,000
18,030
ΣΑΡ, NEWGUINEA, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE YOKOHAMA & KUBE........
KRUDAL
It is understood that both veels left China' rongs."
ingenious follows have invented, a na-before the requirements of the Local Govern
meat Board were fully understood, and that tive form of telegraphy, less elaborate than as-
fntaro consignments of pigs will be dronsect in other moile described by a German traveller
accordance with the regulations of this country, South America. logs of hard wood are
Two perforated by fire with a narrow rectangular and will, providing they are found to be perfectly noction. Fuch log has two distinat sonorous wholesome, be admitted for immediate consump-SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE]
& YOKOHAMA surfaces. One log givas two grave, the other tion, just as if they came from the United
MANILA, gives two acute notes when struck by a stout Staton or any other country.
that tipped with rubber,
Tara product of the soil
A code is seranged, based upon ferences-of-tones and the length aut an ber of the blows struck, so that all kinds of messages may be exchanged bave frequently distinctly heard messages sent from a distanos of The mes from twelve to fifteen kilometres." mge, obviously, can be sent on from station to etation, as by the telegraphic densus of South As for clothes, a kind of loin-cloth Africs.
of bark is worn by the man, the women merely wear bracelets "This poverty of dress not on setonat of any dislike for clothes, but because their omployers will not supply them employers ny." With what do their with any." supply them, I wonder. They appear to be, these Huitoto, the must overworked and dastilate of slaves, and if no civilised Republic hus a clear right of any sort to the country of the tribes, who is responsible?
rande
Already the largest electrical undertaking in Europe, the Allgemeine Electrizitate Closells chaft, will be able enormously to extend the sphere of its operations by t& inerease of its capital from £5,000,000 to £6.500,000, and he its
of
Guilleaume, the Folten, practical absorption
Allgemeine and Lahrmeyer concerns. The Co. takes over byslily the dynamo works of the Faltea Co. at Frankfort, mying for them in new shakes, and at the same time, in conjunc
with the Electro Bank at Zurich, acquires tion
predominant interest in the cable works at Mnalheim and Norderham, These meatures Armor footing in South Germany will give it than it at present possesses, and a commanding position in the manufacture of anbaurine cables. In this branch of electrical industry
it
In the mattor of food this unhappy people is not more liberally treated. As the Haitotes has hitherto been prevented from doing any. are so constantly employed in the extriction of thing by the shallowness of the Spree, which rubber the only food
and plantaina that the Ret is the little yuco does not allow vessels large enough to accom
Ask
women have time tomodate submarine cablon to reach Berlin.
prednets of the forest such a fow
calvatorms which they extract from the
蚵
bark of different trees, the tender tops of the
cholta palm, a few wild f
that many die of starvation."
Thoir only
ON SALE.
fruits, do
The result is
THE FIFTY YEARS
beverage is "of a dirty brownish colour, and tastes us bad
ив
it looks. They drink a good deal of this mess, however, at their rare holidays
when
during a short period in the dry temporarily ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR
the extraction of
abandoned Then they sing in chorus thoir
ancient songs,
levices and acing, painted with traditional
д
with father ornstants. They chow cosa, which is e pecially useful when are without food. They seem to be as much they
Any human beings. without everything as
as any Mr. Hardenburg concludes thus: "I must call attention to the fact that owing to the oppres
numbers of sions of the rubber collectors the these Indians are diminishing, to an alarming degree, and alors something is done to protect thom this noble race of aborigines will, in my opinion, soon disappear completely, as have so many others in the region of the Upper Amazon.
This is a plausible prophecy, and where will the rubber vollectors get people to extract the rabber when the Huito os have disappeared like the Tasmanians ander our own beneficent rule! It by no means becomes as, of all people, to
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PASSENGER SEASON
1911.
IN
25 DAYS TO ITALY
BY THE
LINERS:
DISPLACEMENT.
PRINZESS ALICE"-
Capt. P. GROSCH.
20,300
ON MARCH 22ND,
“LUETZOW
Capt
17,3 10
ON APRIL 5TH.
"KLEIST
17,000
ON APRIL 19TH,
MAGNIFICENT N.D.L.
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ASIA....... CHINA......
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