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DELAGOA BAY NOW A EIS
BONE OF CONTENTION.
The Anomalous Position Occupied by Portugal
In Eastern Africa—England Will Probably j
Secure Control of Her Posses
sions There.
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h.immocka mid to a deilrr In mould*
hand material. Everythin# on the vea
*»ta that could be removed wan dln
p *»d of and the tffflkwrp were oblig'd to
leave oae of them behind In ord'-r to
ateure enough fuel and tu|»pll*i to get
the other to the home country.
The navy, bnvtnn fa t'Ut a email
part of the trouble of Portugal. *> far
aa her financial condition la concerned,
and now that It hue become ocoeaaary
to ratae more money by th* aale of her
African po**'*ssipna there la no doubt
that they will be turn?*! over to Eng
land, who ha* the flmt “Vail" on them
There are aeveral rcanoti* why England
v ill take the territory ofT her hand*.
England han claim* ngalnat Portugal
f**r targe amount* of m n* y loaned.
Then ogadn th* re la a treaty between
tiie two countries by which Pnrtuyttl U
to cede the *Delh!*aa Hay territory to
England when ahe Ihall decide to give
It ui>, but there la also an agreement by !
which Cerpuahy must aunt tion th* ,
transfer of the territory. It la now fee- .
lievcd that Etnpcror William would not ,
h -sitate to givg, England the property j
and pcsaesslon of the .railroad to Pre- !
torla. a* he plans no great reliance In j
the representations of the Transvaal j
government In the matter and he has j
learned that Dr. Leyda and the stale
machine behind him at Pretoria have
Interposed every possible obstacle to
the Improvement of transportation fa
cilities. England also has a treaty with j
Portugal respecting the transit of goods
In bond between the British South Af
rican company’s possessions and the
Transvaal, v, ■' -reby all articles landed
In Delagoa Bay are sent into ihe Trans
vaal In sealed cars, and then e over the
new railroad from Delagoa Bay. which
runs west by north to the terminus at
Fort Salisbury, where there Is a June-,
ton with the main line from Cape
Town. The road has been surveyed as
far north as UJiji, where Livingstone
died. It w'as to this road that Hlr Her
bert Kitchener referred when he tele
graphed to Cecil Rhodes after the fall
of Omdurman "When are you coming
up?"
Delagoa Bay is hot, swampy and fever
ridden. Back of it are hilts, where the
merchants and military and civil offi
cers live and where the main barracks
are located. It has been a Portuguese
settlement for nearly SCO years, but lit- j
tie has been done to develop it.
Two years ago Cecil Rhodes obtained j
a concession from Portugal whereby the
navigation of the Zambezi river was ,
declared open to English ships. This i
has given him a great advantage, for he
now lias direct communication between
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| glo-Bnxon*. There are many English
and American* these, and they desire
' England t<> have full control, The two
j Dutch republic* are walled In almost
! completely by Anglo-Saxon peoples and
! possessions. On the west side Is a terri
i tory formerly Known as the Khanaa
! country, which separates then from the
German colonies and the Africa" west
j coast. On the south hi Cape Colony, and
| on the southeast and east Natal end
. Swaziland, which were taken by Eng
! land about five years ago. On the north
west and north h> Zambezi*. also know n
1 as ntiodesia. and to the northeast Is
; Delagoa Bay. These two republic* are
like Dutch oases In British territory, and
In th" event of trouble England could
cut off all supplies from outside. In the
| event of war they could not be re-en
[ forced, and If necessary a tariff could be
j enacted that would kill till commerce.
In j ither case they would he under t he'
! complete control of the British parlia
| ment. As it now their Isolation would
I tend to strengthen the Anglo-Saxon ele
j ment within their borders, and in the
: course of two generations It Is safe to
j say would make them English speaking
j countries, and that is wlrat England is
playing for.
The government at Delagoa Bay is
nominally military and civil combined,
but rrally military only. The officials
who govern the place consist mostly of
former army officers, the only object
in life of many of whom Seems to be to
steal from the government. Since Por
tugal practically went Into bankruptcy
they have run things with a high hand.
They draw their incomes from the cus
toms and are said to play many fantas
. tie tricks which enrich them at the ex
i pens' of the home treasury. Among
some of those reported to have been
I worked at Delagoa Boy are the follow
-1 ing; invoicing a cargo of American
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I the Portuguese anywhere In the world,
i In Macoa they blond Insensibly with th«
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i the Mongolian leaves off and the Por
tuguese begins. At Goa, on the coast
of Hindustan, they have mixed with
j the Tamils of that territory. Who ure
i as black as negroes, until there Is a
! perfect .hanging of Portuguese color
1 ranging from blond .to black. On the
j Amazon they mixed with the Indians
' in the snme manner, and at Delagoa
• Bay with the various African types
! which are to be found about Delagoa
Hay, which Is, by the way, a delta of
I the Zambezi.
The highest type of native in that
| section is the Kaftlr-Zulu. The second’
| Is the Swazi, who, while powerful and
I intelligent. Is inferior to the Kaffir
I proper. There are four or five types
below these. They are nonbelligerent
and even timid in character. Many of
the Portuguese marry the tribeswomen
or the half castes In the district, while
there Is a large number who live to
gether without the formality of a mar
riage ceremony. The result of this con
dition has been the evolution of very
mixed breeds. Men as blaek as negroes
claim to be Portuguese. The Africans
who have the slightest degree of Por
tuguese blood resent as an insult any
reference to their color or being called
anything but Portuguese.
The natives are skillful fishermen,
and the fish market of Delagoa Bay is
proverbial for the excellence of its food
supply. There are many herds of cattle
and an abundance of cheap beef and
veal, though on account of the heat of
the climate and tile xankness of the
vegetation the beef is lean, tough and
poorly flavored. Beet may be purchased
for a cents a pound, while the poorer
cuts sell for 2 cents. The vegetables, as.
in all other tropica] climates, are very
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PICTUPESOUE PHASES OF LIFE NEAP DELAGOA BAY.
elsewhere, to Fort Salisbury. The lat
ter has one great drawback so far as
the proposed transcontinental road Is
concerned. It was not constructed to
comply with the regulation gauge, and
consequently the trains that will he
used on it cannot be sent liver the other
roads. This, however, will be of little
consequence when England gets control
and Is in a fair way to complete her
road from Cape Town to Cairo.
England’s statesmen have proved
their ability time after time. Here
again she has shown it in the person of
Cedi Rhodes. The Portuguese in their
public work have paid the natives who
have been employed on the railroads a
minimum wage, when they paid any
thing, and very often the work was
stopped because the people could not
get their money. They were compelled
to apply to usufieirs, who were working,
with the officials and who would buy up
the claims of tie natives, charging
them enormous The officials who
had charge of the road did their best
to pocket as much of the spoils as they
could, and they Aid not care who was j
the loser. 7
On the other lstnd, Cecil Rhodes Hired
whole armies of Kaffirs and raid them ,
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the time the Portuguese protest arrived
at Cape Town two more forays on a
larger scale took place and struck con
sternation to the Portuguese heart. A
courteous letter was sent to Cecil
Rhodes by the officials of Delagoa Bay
abandoning their former position und
allowing the goods to go Into Zambezi*
under the original agreement. Strange
as It might seem, the forays stopped
as suddenly as they had begun. Mr.
Rhodes of course denied having any
thing to do with the outbreak of the
savage freebooters, yet many of them
had worked on his various enterprises,
and it is evident that there was sums
connection between the two event*.
There were other things of a similar
nature which had their origin outside
of the camps of the natives, hut it
could never be positively proved who
were the instigators.
The natives, as a rule, are large and
powerfully built and make a striking
contrast to the Portuguese troops, who
are very small. It is Indeed a comical
sight to see one of the troopers try to
stop a couple of husky natives who ore
1 doing something against the regula
tions of the place. Sometimes the na
j lives will brush the soldier aside and
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even by the dynamite cartridge. Th*
Italian rifle, which is but .25* Inch in i
diameter, proved very efficient in stop
ping power at the battle of Allow ah.
Nevertheless, at short ranges, tic very
high velocity of the bullet gives rise to
a powerful explosive effect.
Major Mlchellnl one day fired one of
these guns Into water at an angle of
about 4a degrees. A 'lead fish utmost
immediately rose to the surface. On ex
amination no wound was discoverable
in the body, the death being due entire
ly lo the hydraulic shock arising from
the Impact of the bullet with the water.
This view was amply confirmed by fur
ther experiments, and many fish were
killed by the blow of the bullet, on the
water exactly as if by an explosion of a
dynamite shell. The effects of the hy
draulic shocks se med to be sufficient to
kill all tlsh within 2 feet to 2 feet 6 Inch
es of the point of Impact.
Very Frenrli.
With the French sense of fitness a
bullfight was got up recently for the
benefit of the Bourgogne sufferers at
Toulon. Four thousand people crowded
round the hull ring, and after waiting
for an hour and a half were informed
that the managers of the entertainment
had disappeared with the entrance
money and that the bullfighters would
not fight until they were paid. The
spectators thereupon began to tear
down the woodwork of the building and
set it on fire, and there was a panic in
which women and children were tram
-1 pled underfoot.
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1|,,. (M-art to-arfiiK of.trr rxl.t. on thd
roa.U of the inland*.
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There l» a true irtorr tolil of a mem
i tier of one »f the rrernt pr -M'lentlal
. ahlnetr. who had moved to Wa.hlna*
ion on hi. appointment from a rountry
| town. He wan a mail of mean, and tie
,;an at one* lookln# around for a *ulta
aide hooa* in which to InataM hi. fami
ly Klnally. after ronalderattf* iwareh.
he the heu*e he wanted, fina
an,l Ifiriret anil In a inowt eonvenient io
, aiijr, v ilb r p«-ct to Ihr White Houad
an I tb| wßirtMt of which he was
chief. . -
Th ■ odMI tcly furni.hed
except * tn* on,' )K«| Ha owner, who
hnil Jual MHinttlociJ to repre**nt
thia ihnlwraatehkl# afcdlplomatte pnat,
had choaen to lake hi. hooka wrlth him.
Thu litirary .helve, were vacant. Hard
ly a ‘government report or a cen.u.
record nie toviwntnatc the liter
ary I ihmofl'id IhVt once ,oay roqm.
Th" cabinet ninn win* Ju.t a little vexed
—mil} lof .Aidmfcd however. He knevv\
he tfould buy l twiv .if thr<- libraries at
lh - Wunhin/tlon alorcH If he wanted
them, itu«. lift* *8 ,W! the ««P- r,ut hls
alert mind mdveil tic problon in n liur
ry. ond tn a whorl Uinc ull the shetyi*a
u r« filial In rewpoft*- to this telearum.
which n* Vent lo aty al hi. homo
In—w«H, It Is not so far west as Manila,
or even so far distant us Ponce:
••Send.me by freight 250 running feet
of books for library.”
Then he went to the cabinet meeting
and told the president and his rol
lenguca how he hud solved the problem.
And he has never understood to this
day why the grave president ond his
K, i lous cabinet smiled when he told
hmv he had ordered a library by tha
yard. .
Wealth of'the Xutlons.
Mulhall, the ISngllsh statistician, has
just made a calculation of the weuith
of the principal nations of the world,
based on values shown by real estata
records, build ngs. merchandise and
railroads, us well as the circulate '
medium of each country, and places the
aggregate wealth ' Ihe United St' -
at *S 1,750,000.000. Thl" Is 422.290.0''"- '•■•«*
larger than the aggregate of U’-mr
Britain, which holds second place: dou
ble that of France, equal to that of
Russia, Italy, Austria and Spain cc-.ia
bined, and more than seven times great
er than that of Spain. In connection
with his tabular statements Mr, llul
hall calls attention to the fact that
while most European countries have
attained their growth, the United States
is apparently on the threshold of an
Industrial development of an extent of
which it baa never Uteamed. ,
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