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MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (MITSUBISHI: 00)

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AMONG MAN-EATING LIONS

Thrilling Stories by English Dostar.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1911.

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afterwards disappeared" in their en:00. Dr. Dunbar Branton has a theory that they conía ök në Egyptian stook. He has frequently obuetród the old. Egyptian typo among their mun. and one may still ånd | TO, BE OBTAINED OF ALL DEALERS, among them ivory and wooden imagor, immensely old, and handed down from- An Internating aunt of North-Eastern

to generation, which bear a close generation Rhodesia aust, its native tribes has been resemblance to the gore of Ramdera and the Egyptian gods. The men are of kne given to a representative" of "The Dady, phyalque, many of them buing 61E. 94. ip

Chronicle by De Dunbar Brunton, who baa height, and the women are often very recently returned to England after spend-pretty, with small, straight noses, small lips and oara-almost European, in their 'abar- Fing "some, yours is", that; country & a noterialios.

district medical nifiçer,

Dr. Dunbar-Brunton is well known. As a

They are highly intelligent, far superior. to the negroid type, and are proud of a history which, iz presozzed by oral reepeda. 00AL DEPARTMENT.big game hunter, and some of his trophies They are governed by a Royal House, such are to be seen in a London dub. In North member of which has had his name pro- east Rhodenia. He had plenty of opport.served by nativo, tenditions, as they are `now; noted down by the Bridah Govern. SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA-unities for sport, for the Wawetha ment, for the chief of the whole tribe, the SOLE

SIMA, CCHL MUTABE, YO territories in which he was on duty have Mwamba as he is called, as well as sub- SHINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA, not been explored by many hunters, and ordinato chiefe are chosen from the Royal NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW are richly stocked with wild animals. On Family. " And 'HAMIYAMADA Collerias.

many a night, sitting in his verandah, the doctor has heard the full-throated roar of the forest-lion, the cough of the leopard, and the yell of the hyena.

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The succession, bowerer, in through the female line. No son of a chief succeeds his father, but the on of the into chief's head sister is the next hoir. This is according to the old prpretb that "it's a wise man who knows his own father." The Wawamha believe in the certainty of know ing one's own mother.

I is no wonder that they hold to the superstition about the spirits of their dead chiofs inhabiting the

Sodica o! man-eating Tods, for the ferocity of" then chiefs has been beyond words to describe, The late Mwamba was a bloodthirsty monster. De termined to show his power over his tribo and to punish them for the Immoralitics of which they are too often guilty, ho pat them to torture and death for the lengt offence...

Fifty mon and women, wete spiked on stakes, and as they did not die quickly were roasted in their Lush gumios by bonfires lighted cloas to them."

Carnation

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There is something strange," said Dr.. Dunbar Brunton, "in the encounter of wild boasts in a country which ban the charm and beauty of some parts of England or Scotland. For North-Easters. Rhodosis has pot the antage character of tropical scanery. In the centre of the country there is a high, plateau rising to '8,000ft., richly wooded froos "top-to bettem, and extending for 400 by 300 miles. With

temperate climate it has the sylra beauty of the Tyrol, and the trees rise up clean and free from jungle or tropical un dergrowth. Little rivers- like the trout AGENCIES:

streame of Scotland ran down the hillsides, and in the valleys and plains there are dis- YOKOHAMA: M. Asada, Esq.

tricte like the park lands of Kagland.

It is curiously diaconoorting, therefore, of hippopotamus CHINKIANG: Messra Gearing & see the ugly old bond of s

poking through the rushes on the bank of Col

sriver, or an alligator lying asleep there, MANILA: Messrs Macondray & herds of wild buck through a vists of trass like one may see the fallow deer in Co.

Bushey Park. It is still more carious to SINGAPORE: Messrs, Borneo Co. upon two of them one day-croaching in the men go hunting with sets in which Or No. 1. To Shipping Firms and

run up against lions, as I came suddenly, Ltd.

the bush. One is inclined to ask where are they catch small deer and other animals of the keepers and to write a letter to the no great strength as they are papers about it 1".

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For firting and light babaviour women had their noses, ears and lips out of, and Dr. Dunbar Branton has sean many of SOLE AGENTS FOR "CHINA, these poor creatures. For spooking against a thiol the punishment was mutilation of the tongue and ears. For stealing, one hand was chopped

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and the other hand at a second adance. This Hongkong, October 3, 1911. fri htfel ponal code was in fall operation The present na lately as ter yours ago.

Mwamba is a sun of somewhat milder VALUABLE PROPERTY disposition

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The women do a little agriculture, while

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The lions which roam the country to possess guns, they cannot go hunting money chially stretching southward from Take word dnbig game. They make their not always avoid the presence of human in the transport of loads, buing paid at the rate of about A. for 40 miles, and the beings, Indeed, from time immemorial Rhodesian Labour Bureau recruits them they have been pan-anters. Within 816 rocent period 53. men haze been killed by for Agriculture in Southern Rhodosis and lions in a district where the sleeping sick the Johannesburg mines, from which they ness has counted for only four dorthe return with £10 or so, rich beyond the The

natives are unable to protect them- selves from this constant peril because they

have no guna Moreover, they run ad- ditional risks owing to their own carelesa Dos feibg of a a lazy disposition they do not move far from their hats to culativo their tobacco and other

Their

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nins of avarice, according to the pur chasing power of money in their own country.

For 28. 6. or a little, more they bay à wife, or fira wires for about 159,, if they can afford it. The Government demands hut tax of 34. a year, which is very light, Iand as a man must have a hut for each wife

the number of wives.

LEEDS FORGE CO., LD., LEEDS. T MEETING of Shareholders will be gardens and cahtiv ted patch-e hra made in this increases his expenditure according to

held at the Offices of the undersigned on the lanes between the tears, and as the Specialista in the Manufacture of RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK of every description THURSDAY, the 19th proxime, at Noon. villages are closely bounded by the forests The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Comthe lions are able to stenlamperceived Pioneers in the design and manufacture of

pany will be CLOSED from the 5th upon the natives to the very donra of their to the 19th proximo, both days inclusive.

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SETATES OF CITTER IN LIONS.

It is unfortunate that for the conveni- enea of collecting the bat tax the nativos have been encouraged to build large villages instead of scattering their hate along the It happene not seldom that two or three valleys audiu any pretty spot celested by mon sitting ir tho open tolling the old folk-The over rowding of the villages has had.

young men when commencing family fo lore stories which they love so dearly will the same effects as the overcrowding in be pounced upon by a man-eating on and the cities of Europe-discaso, depravity, killed before they can turn their hands, and a weakening of the race. Many A na stooping over his tobac plants has been seized and carried off

O by a lion which has made its way stealthily through the outskirts of the vilinge

One man had his face bitten off at the door of his but and walks shout no

A living harror. In spite of the late which so often befalis thair comrades, the natives do not with favour upon lion-hunting. Dr. Dunbar Brutton, when following a man eating lion, has found himself deliberately thwarted by the natives who will not act as heaters because they wish, to save the lion's life. This is due to their firm belist that the spirits of their dead chiefa tako 9.15 p.m. the form of lions, and that when a man-

Their Ik-lore is very rich and full of eater is killed the spirit is divided among animal stories like pops fables. The here other lions with the same thirst for hamas of, these talos is always the rabbit, who has blood. They hold it better,

therefore, to the, samvit and complains Bret' Fox in let one lien ent its fill rather than increase this country, due of the best stories, how- aver deal with hamn beings. It is of the danger by killing-it

site, they say, was coming back to his hut wide-world, truth. A drunken men of their

9.15 p.m SPECIAL PICTURES. THIS WEEK. Latude. The Coast of New Zealand. Ma's Magnetism. Faithless. Dying Hard. Too Short of Chairs. An Unlucky Latter

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The natives have many secret socioties, into which thes are initiated by the most horrible rites of deyil worship. In spite of this, however, their religion is a high form of theism. They believe in one God and subordinato spirits of good a

I and ovil. They spirits, fit their most notive zeal is to give fejendly acknowledgment to the good propitiate the bad spirits. This is done generally by making little huta for them, in which they place amali cugs filled with. bark or water.

QUAINT FOLKLORE, `"

One of Dr. Darbar-Brunton's most thrilling adventures with a bull elephant. With a friend, who went off on when he saw a skall lying on the roadway. another track, he had bear following at skul, how did yet me to die 1 And He gave it a friendly, kick and sald, "O the tracke of elephants all day without

and said, I success, and just before sundown received immediately the skull word from his commode that he was ring died by too much talking * back. Dr. Dunbar-Brunton decided to

The man was startled, and running off rature also, but before starting on the told his people. This made so much eng homeward track, sat down and lighted a motion that it roached the ears of the chief. pipa

He was smoking quietly when he "Take that man," he skid, "and And the Iheard the noise of his friend'e hesterz, and shall, and kill this man it ba is a liar," a native who carried his gun said "Look The man was taken by his guards and found

buli great elephant was close apon the skull and kicked it, and aid "O skall. them Very quietly the doctor laid down how did you come to die! But the skull his pipe and took his gun, while the did not Answer. Three times the man. Datives scuttled up the trees in terror. kicked it and asked the question. But still The doctor took a quick shot, but just the skull did not answer. Then the man was missed the elephant's brain-pan. It throw

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up its trunk, opened ita, mouth, put its put to death, and one of the natives kicked the dead body and said: "O'dend man, tusks forward, and charged. A second how did you coma to dia?". And the head Total Asseta Dec. 31, 1810...G.8494,715,923 shot struck it.in the shoulder, but did not of the corpen spoke and said: "I died by

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85,015,459 shook its onrush. The doctor shot again too much talking.

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when it was within a few pacca, and, Dr Dunbar-Brunton himself will nover 10,576,167 hurtling past him, it fell with legs out- 63,439,360 stretched, with a ballet in its heart. The dio by too much talking, for he is essentially 10,392,032 doctor turned to his pipe, It was still man of action and would rather, as he alight, and to Srished his smoke while theys, face a bull elephant, than a journalist requesting an interview. He hopes to 21,610,528 Dativos danced round the body of the return shortly, to North-Eastern Rhodanis

elephant.

to resume his duties as a medical offider -548-

and bis pleasures as a sportsman in a 727

country, which he describes as having the These natives belong to the Wawemba most beautiful climate in the world, and Aribe, who invaded. Rhodesia at an uncer for whose future za a colony he prophesies tain date, made other tribes aiavea and big things, At present it is undeveloped aabject to them by ferocious conquest, and and is waiting for the pioneers who later till remain the dominant race of one on in the story of the world will grow portion of Rhodesia, as the Angoni," wheat and fruit and tobacco in its fertile Branch of the Zulus, who came under ane plaing, and make their home-stends in ita of Cetowaya's brothers, are dominant in parklands. another great part of this country. No ODO MLY POR BAY with absolute certainty what is the origin of the Wawamba, The r' own tradition saya, that they, camG down from the Noith, across Lako | Tanganyika, led by two white men, who

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