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jO%o; walnuts, Fren 'h. 10c; Naples, 11c;
pecans, 10c; Brazils, B’,i>c; filberts. 10c; as
sorted nuts. 50-pound rmd 25-pound boxes,
lOfilO’ic; cocoanuts, $3.75 per 10ft,
Raisins—L. L.. 11-05; ’--.-box. 11.00; loose,
#O-pound boxes. 614 c per pound.
Peanuts—Ample stock, fair demand;
market steady; fancy hand-picked Vir
ginia, per poun!. 5%c; hand-picked, j>er
pound. sc; N. C. peanuts, 4c.
Epps—Market firm; full supply; candled,
per dozen; lik.fllc; country, 2c less
Poultry—Steady, fair demand; half- |
grown, 2u*i2sc per pair; Three-quarters
grown, 35®40c per pair; full-grown fowls,
451/500 |ier pair
Fish—Mackerel, half barrel, No. 1, $8.50;
No. 2, *7.50; No. 3, $6.00; kits. No. 1, $1.25;
No. 2, $1.00; No. 3,05 c. (Codfish, 1-pound
bricks, 6Vic; 2-pound bricks, Cc. Smoked
herring, per box, 20c; Dutch herring, in
kegs, $1.25; now mullet, half-barrel, $:;.50.
Syrup—Market quiet; Georgia and Flor
ida syrup buying at 201/2?,-id selling at
22%©25c; sugai house, at 197122 c; Cuba
straight poods, 23®80c; sugar house mo
lasses, 154/20c.
Salt—Demand Is fair and the market
steady; carload lots, f. o. b.. Liverpool,
290-pound sacks, 62c; job lots, 65@90c; com
mon fine salt, 125-pound, in burlap sacks,
carload lots, 3Sc; common fine sail, 125-
pound, in cotton sacks carload lots, 41c
Hides, Wool, Etc.—Hides—The market
firm; dry flint, 15%c; dry salt. 13%c; green
salted, Bc. Wool—Nominal; prime Georgia,
free of sand, burrs and black wool, 18c; I
blacks, 16c; burry, 85/10c. Wax, 25c. Tal
low, 2c. Deer skins, 15c.
Oils—Market steady; demand fair; sig
nel. 45 •<5-. ; West Virgi ta black, IQUc;
lard, 68c: neatsfoot, GO® 75c; machinery, 15
<g2sc; linseed, raw, 47c; boiled, 50c; kero
sene, prime w hite. 8c; water white. 9c; fire
proof, 10c; deodeHSed stove gasoline, bar
rels, BV4c.
Gun Powder—Per keg. $4.00; half keg,
$2.25; quarter keg. 51.25; Champion ducking
quarter keg, $2.25; Austin, Dupont a.id
Hazard, smokeless, half kegs, $11.25; quar
ter kegs, $5.75; 1-pound canisters, $1.00; loss j
25 per cent.
Shot—Drop, $1.25; 13. IS. and large, $1.50; |
chilled, $1.55.
Lime, Calcined Plaster and Cement— j
Alabama and Georgia lime in fair demand
nnd selling a< 75c per barrel, bulk and car
load lot. specinl; calcined plaster, $1.50 per
barrel; hair. 4@sc; Rosedaie cement, sl.lo®
1.20; carload lots, special; Portland ce
ment, retail. $2.Ai: carload lots, $2.00.
Iron—Market ♦cry 6ieady; Swede, 4®
♦He; refined, $1.55 l/a.se.
Nalls—Cut, $1.50 base; wire, $1.90 base.
Advanced national list of extras, adopted
Dec. 1. 1896.
Lumber—F. O. 13. Prices—Minimum yard
Flzes, $11.00; car sills, $11,50: difficult sizes,
$12.50'!} 14.00; ship stock, $16.50@18.00; sawn
crossties, $9.50® 10.00; hewn crosslies, 33c
per tie. Market quiet and steady.
* OCEAN FREIGHTS,
Cotton—Market nominal; rates quoted
ore per 100 pounds: Boston, per bale, $1.23;
New York, per bale, $1.00; Philadelphia,
per bale, SI.OO Baltimore, per bale, $1,00;
Via New York—Liverpool, 35c; Manches
ter, 45c; Havre, 57c; Antwerp, 57c; Ham
burg, 53e; Reval, 63c; St. Petersburg, 63c;
Gothenburg, 63c; Venice, 73c; Trieste, 73c;
Lisbon. 66c; Oporto. 60c.
Lumber—By Sail—Freights are firm. For
eign business is dull. The rates
fr&m this and near by Georgia ports ore
quoted at $1.3i'!i5.50 for a range—lncluding
Baltimore and Portland, Me. Railroad
ties, base 44 feet, to Baltimore, 13V&c; to
Philadelphia, 14Vjc; to New York, IGVic.
Timler rates, 50e&$1.00 higher than lum
ber rales.
By Steam—Lumber—To Baltimore, $6.00;
Boston. $7.00; New York, $7.75.
Naval Stores—The market is steady.
Medium-sized vessels, Cork for orders, 3a
6d for barrels of 310 [/ounds, and 5c prim
age; spirits. 4s 9d; larger, 4 6d. Steam,
12c per 100 pounds on rosin; SI.OO on spirits
to Boston and 10c on rosin, and 90e on
spirits to New York.
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, ETC.
Now' York, July 25.—Flour dull nnd easy,
with prices lower to sell. Rye flour, s2.i@
$3.00. Corn meal firm; yellow Western, 75c.
Rye weak; No. 2,4 Ge. Barley nominal.
Barley malt dull.
Wheat, spot, weak; No. 2 red. 80c; op
tions weak through disappointing cables.
They rallied later with corn, only to expe
rience u second decline under liquidation
of July, which closed 3V,c lower, with other
months ;%c off. A more liberal new
wheat movement is In prospect. No. 2 red,
July, closed at 79c; September, 72%c; De
cember, 71 1
Corn, spot, firm; No. 2, 40V4C; options gen
erally strong all day, except for a brief
midday reaction under realizing, and clos
ed %e higher. Hot weather news was the
feature; July closed at 3S%c; September,
38%c; December, 4Uc.
Oats, spot, firm: No. 2,2 So; oats Influ
enced by corn, and closed %c net higher.
September closed at 25%e. Beef quiet. Cut
meats firm. Lard firmer; Western steam
ed, $5.80; July, $7.82 nominal; refined, dull.
Pork steady. Butter firm- Western cream
ery, 11$ 18c; do factory, 11® 1384 c; Elglns,
18c; imitation creamery, 125/15e; state
dairy, L'Vu 16‘ic. Cheese firm; large white,
7Vic. Eggs steady; slate and Pennsylva
nia, $44/15c; Western fresh, 14c. Potatoes
steady: Jerseys, $2.12'i@2.25; Long Island,
$2,006/2.25. Cotion srd oil steady; prime
crude, 18c; prime yellow, 23\4@24c. Rico
steady. Cabbage firm; Long’island, $2.50
@2.50 per 10U. Coffee, options open/ and
steady at unchanged prices, ruled more
active, with stcadn r underione. following
covering and switching In face of liberal
receipts at Rio and Santos, disappointing
consumption; closed firm, with prices un
changed to live points higher; sales. ::6,250
bags, including August, 5.45 c; September,
6.5b@5.55c; spot Rio dull and nominal; No.
7 Invoice, Go; No. 7 jobbing, 6%e; mild quiet;
Cordova, N./u 15c. Sugar, raw, firm; fair
refining, SLc; centrifugal, 96-test, 4%e; re
fined, firm.
Chicago, 111., July 25.—Corn advanced on
dry weather and upheld the other specu
lative markets like a life buoy. Corn clos
ed %@*c higher. Wheal left oIT %.q%c
lower. Dale rose %c. Pork and lard ad
vanced 21*0 ■ ai h, and ribs 2b.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheal, No. 2
July 76V* 77 74 74
Sept 67f!67' 8 67% 66% 67%
Bee 677@67 , 4 67 Vj 67V 2 86%@C7 67%
Corn, No. 2
July 31% 35% 34% 36%@36%
Sept 34%7/3144 35D 34% 55%-i33%
Dec 34%'/1-35 35% 34% J5%@35%
May W%@37 35% 36% 3a
Oats, No. 2
✓ July 24% 21% 24% 21%
Sept 20% 21 20 : ,
May 23% 24 23%@23% 23%
Mess pork, per barrel—
July $9 85 $9 87% $9 87 $9 57'.7
Sept 995 10 00 9 92% 10 00 "
Lard, per 100 pounds—
Sept 5 62% 5 65 * 5 60 5 65
Oct 5 65 5 67% 5 65 ' 5 qjt..
Short Ribs, per 100 pounds—
Sept 5 674% f, 70 565 5 711
Oct 5 70 5 72% 5 70 5 72%.
Cash quotations win/ . s fo lows: Flour"
steady; No. 2 spring wheat, 73c: No. 3
spring wheat, 70®75c; No. 2 red, 75c. No.
2 corn, 3F, 1 ; No. 2 yclipw corn. 37'//As%e;
No. 2 oats, 21%c; No. 2 white, 28c; So 3
white, 26'./27c; No. 2 rye, 47c; No. 2 bar
ley. 31*135u; No. 1 flax seed, 9Se; print* um
othy secd, $2.55; miss pork, per bbl.,
9.65; lard, I" r lop lie.. $5.55; short rib sales
(loose!, s■/. it'ea.SO; dry sailed Shoulders
(boxed), 4%'.5 sc; short clear side (boxed)
$5,957/6.19.
Reined y for the Sun June Sonic.
Waycroiß, Ga . Jt;ly 23.—A Wuycross
gentleman .says that he thinks he hjs dis
covered a remedy for Hie San Jos. sea’,
He has been experimenting several vears
The remedy Is applied 10 th. "lower
branch/s of the tr..s. The experiments
!M\e bc< ii made alco on belonging to
other ventl* mon and each application has
*en SUCCCSbI ui.
PAINE, MURPHY & CO,.'
BROKERS
Order* Executed Over Our Private Wire*
—For
COTTON,STOCRS.OKAIN A PROVISIONS
For Cash or on Margins
Loral Securities nought and sold
Telephone 539
board ot Trade Building. Jackson Building
Seannah. Ga. Atlanta. Ga,
MARINE INTELLIGENCE,
l. nml General \e*v* of Ships anil
Ship,ilncr.
The British steamship Birchtor
whili cleared for Hamburg Sat
urday with 4,70 b tons of phoß
phate rock and 2,000 barrels of rosin, pass
ed down the river yesterday drawing a
fraction over twenty-four feet. She an
chored at Venus’ l’oint to await the next
tide to go to sea. While at Venus Point
she broke loose from her mooring past
and swung across the channel. The tuj*
Jacob Paulsen went to her assistance.
During the year 1897 the record of arriv
als of vessels of all flags from Manila,
Iloilo and Cebu,the open [>orts of the Phil
ippine Islands, were; Foiled States, 24
vessels; Great Britain, 192; Germany, 31;
Spa n. 47; Japan, 10; Norway, 21; Holland,
2; Denmark. 3; Hawaii, 1; France, 1. To
tal. 332 vessels, of which 248 were steam
ers.
Savnltnnh Almanac.
Sun rises at 5:10 and sets at 7:03.
High water at Tybee to-day at 12:16 a.
m. and 12:59 p. m. High water at Savan
nah one hour later.
Plumes of the Moon for July.
Full moon, 3d, 3 hoursfand 12 minutes,
evening; last quarter, 10th, 10 hours and 43
minutes, morning; new moon, 18th, 1 hour
and 47 minutes, evening; first quarter, 26th,
7 hours and 40 minutes, morning; moon in
perigee, 3d and 31st; moon in apogee, lGlh.
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Y'e**el* Arrived Yenterday.
Steamship Kansas City, Fisher , New
York—Ocean /Steamship Company.
Steamship Chattahoochee, Lewis, New
York—Ocean Steamship Company. '
Vc*.*ie 1 * Cleared Yesterday.
Steamship City of Augusta, Daggett,
New York—Ocean Steamship Com pa ny.
Steamship Chattahoochee, Lewis New
York.—Ocean Steamship Company.
Bark Gilead (Nor), OlseA, Bristol—Pater
son, Downing A- Cos.
Steamer Gopher, Cammrle, Mobile.
Veasel* Went to Sen Yesterday.
Steamship City of Augusta, New York.
Steamship Birchtor (Br), Hamburg.
Bark Paul (Russ), Manchester.
Bark Gilead (Nor), Bristol.
Bark Yaso do Gama (Nor), Wilmington.
Schr J. E. dußlgnon, Baltimore.
Schr Chaunoey E. Burke, Wilmington,
Del., and Philadelphia.
Schr T. A. Ward, New York.
Bhi[iping Me 111 orn 11 iln,
Jacksonville. Fla., July 25.—Cleared,
schr F. C. Pendleton, Burgess, Boston;
schr Island City, Henderson, Philadelphia.
Key West, July 25. —Arrived, steamers
Cocoa. Dillon, Miami; tug Syren. Robin
son, Norfolk; sehrs Goodwin, Stoddard,
Newport News; Hattie Darling (Br),
Thompson, Nassau.
Sailed—Schrs Admiral Ram [eon, Bright,
Santiago; Equator (Br), Sweeting, Nassau.
Punta, Gorda, Fla., July 25.—Cleared,
bark Balio, Malcolm, Baltimore.
Fernandina, Fla., July 25.—Cleared,
steamer Vizcaina, McLean, Antwerp via
Norfolk for coal; schr Edward P. Avery,
Hawley, New Y’ork.
Apalachicola, Fa., July 25.—Cleared,
bark Axle (Nor), Torgersen, Montevideo.
Sailed—Schr Willie H. Child, Giles, Bos
ton; hark Elrin (Nor), Neilsen, Tayport.
Charleston, S. C., July 25.—Arrived,
steamer Seminole, Bearse, Jacksonville,
proceeded to New York; barkentine Bruce
Hawkins, Guerney, Boston; schr Horace
G. Morse, Higbee, l'biiadelphia.
Cleared—Schr Harry Prescott, Gray,
New Haven.
Philadelphia, July 25.—Arrived, schr Har
ry A. Herwind, Savannah.
New York, July 25.—Arrived, steamer
Carib, Jacksonville.
West Hartlepool, July 23.—Arrived,
steamer Eclipse, Fernandina.
Stettin, July 21.—Arrived, steamer New
slcd, Fernandina.
New York, July 2.’. Sailed, schr Stephen
G. Loud, for Savannah.
Notice to Mariner*.
Pilot charts and all hydrographic infor
mation will lie furnished masters of Ves
sels free of charge in United Stales hydro
graphic office in custom house. Captains
are requested to call at the office. Reports
of wrecks and derelicts received for trans
mission to the navy department.
The time bgll on Cotton Exchange drops
12 111., Tot h meridian time.
Steamer I'nt/Mragrr*.
Passengers per steamship City of Au
gusta for New York—R. C. Bedell, Mrs.
Judge Scruggs, B. Lucas. Miss Evelyn,
Mrs. Rogers and son, Mrs. Myers, S. Alee
ker. Mrs. I*. Brennan, Mrs. E. B. Fitzger
ald. B. W. Kaskell, Miss J. Tapping, M.
A. Friedman, Maj. James U. Sheldon rti.i
wife, live children and nurse, H. M. Tup
pen, Miss Lowett, Mrs. Whllemarch. Mr.
Hummel, Win. Tudor, Miss N, Brennan,
H. G. Walsh, Mr. Hendtioon and wife, L.
Harris, Mrs. J. L. Walthour, Mr. Kilgour,
wife and daughter, 1. B. Briggs and wife,
Mrs. Levick and son, Mrs. .1. H. Haslam
and nurse. George D. Marmeistcin, .Mi s
Eulalia Kruger, Miss K. Short, Mr. J. B.
Chestnut, wife and daughter, A. Gommvrt,
E. W. Smith, W. S Kelffer ami sou,
twelve Intermediate and three steerage.
Coastwise Export*.
r< r steamship City of Augusta, for New
York—4,o7o melons. 16 bales wool, 205 bales
domestics, 118 bills rice, 1.775 bbls rosin,
5 bills spirits turpentine, 103,195 feet lum
ber, 107 lulls hides, 12 turtles, 3b bbls soa r
slock, 752 bbls fruit. 128 crates fruit. 5 bb s
vegetables, 74 tons pig Iron, 100 casks clay,
88 cases cigars. 5,278 staves, 20 bbls rosin,
12 bbls pitch, 411 pkgs mdse.
Per schopher Douglass Gregory, for
Philadelphia—9.229 crossties, measuring
4)1,844 superficial feet, and 131.726 feet / f
pitch pine lumber. Total. 513,570 ft e t.
—Shipped by Dixon, Mitchell A Cos.
Foreign Export*.
per Norwegian bark Gilead, for Bristol
—2.27.' tasks spirits turpentine, valued at
s3o.476—Cargo by Paterson, Downing A
Cos.
Receipt* nr ttnilronil*.
Per Central of#Cleorgia Railway, .Inly
25. -5 cars brick. 1 ear fresh meat, packing
house products and oleomargarine, 1 ear
poaches. 9 ears melons, 1 cat meal, 1 car
butter, 1 eat coal. 3 ears nit .tins, 316 bb s
I. sin, 121 bbls spin s, 103 baits domcsiics,
625 pkg mdst
Per Forida Centra! and Peninsular Rail
road, July 25. —75 bales cotton. 6 cars hint
iit r, 1 ear phosphate, 5 ears vegetables, 2
/ ars government freight, 1 ear rock. 10
tars mdse, 1 car, machinery, 3
ears grits, 1 ear tobacco, 1
ear naphtha, 1 oar cotton, 2 cars
wood, 3 cars melons, 2 cars crosstics, 410
bbls spirits. l.i'JO bbls rosin.
Per G'tueia and Alabama Railway, July
25.-842 bbls ros/ii, 342 casks spirits, 1 ear
m lse, 3 ears corn, 1 ear malt. 1 cat Hour,
J cars meal, 3 cars oats, 2 cars hay.
THE MORNING'NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 20. ISOB.
ANIMALS FOUND IN AFRICA.
IIEYI Alt KADI/E DISCOVERIES HE
( E.VTLY MADE IN THAT C OUNTRY,
Peculiar anil Mar*clou* Beaut* That
Never Heard the Crack of a Huu
ter'* Rifle.
From the Baltimore American.
Some Idea of the huge extent of the
African continent may be gained by com
paring its size on the map with that of
India. Allowing for some slight overlaps,
no less than six Indius can be traced on
the map of Africa; and as these leave
tween them and their margins considera
ble spaces of the country still uncovered,
it would be but a moderate estimate that
Africa includes at least seven times the
area of British India.
Northern Africa has, so far as Us ani
mals arc concerned, been cut off from the
districts lying south of the tropic of Can
cer by the great barrier formed by the
Sahara; and as the animals of the dis
tricts to the north of that desert are, for
the most part, of a European type, while
Southern Europe and Northern Africa
were evidently joined by land at no very
distant epoch of the earth's history, the
districts north of the Sahara ore for zoo
logical purposes regarded as part of Eu
r/q/e and Asia. Typical, or Ethiopian
Africa, as it is more generally termed, in
cludes, therefore, only such portion of the
continent as lies to the south of the north
ern tropic.
But the critical reader may, perhgps,
here be led to remark that some, * t least,
of the animals of Northern Africa are
common to the South; the Hon, whose
range extend? from Algeria 10 the Cape,
affording a case in point,. To this it may
lie replied thut, popular prejudice notwith
standing, the Hon cannot in any sense
be looked upon as a characteristic African
animal. Although year by year growing
rarer, it to this day still lingers on in cer
tain parts of Western India, while it is
likewise found in Persia and Mesopotamia,
and within the historic period was com
mon in Southern Europe. It may, to a
certain degree, be regarded as a cosmo
politan animal, which may have obtained
entrance into Africa by more than one
route. In a minor degree, the same may
bo said of the hippopotamus, which was
formerly found in the lower reaches of the
Nile, and, at a much earlier period, in
many parts of Europe. Being an aquatic
animal, it can avail itself of routes of com
munication which are closed to purely ter
restlal creatures.
Of the fauna of typical Africa, as a
whole, some of the most striking features
are of a negutive nature; that Is to say,
certain groups which are most widely
spread in most other districts of the Old
World are conspicuous by their absence.
This deficiency is most marked in the
case of bears and deer, neither of which
are represented throughout the whole of
ttiis vast expanse of country. Pigs allied
to the wild swine of Europe and India are
likewise lacking, their place being takei\
by the push-pigs .and the hideous wart-'
hogs, both of (which are among the most
characterislic of African animals." Ex
cept for a couple of species of Ibex In the
hills of the northeast, sheep and goats are
likewise unknown tn a wild state. Among
other absentees In the fauna, special men
tion may be made of the marmots, and
their near allies, the susliks, as well as of
wolves, bears and motes.
Of the mammals, which may be regard
ed as characteristic of typical Africa, as
a whole, the following, An addition to the
bush-pigs, and wart-hogs already mention
ed, are some of the most important.Amogg
the monkeys the most widely distributed
are the hideous baboons, now restricted
to Africa and Arabia, the southern portion
of the latter country being Included in the
same great zoological province. The guen
ons species, of which are the monkeys
commonly led about by organ grinders,
have also a wide distribution on the conti
nent, although, of course, more abundant
in the forest regions than elsewhere; and
the guerezas have also a considerable
range. In a totally different group, the
curious iltlle jumping shrews form a pe
culiarly interesting family of African
mammals belonging to the insectivorous
order. There are also many peculiar gen
era of mongooses, but as most of these
have a more or less local distribution, they
can scarcely lie considered characteristic
of the continent os a whole; still, they arc
quite different from those found elsewhere.
Avery curious carnivorous animal, known
as the aard-wolf, strikingly like a small
striped hyena, is not the least peculiar
among Ihe animals of Africa, where it has
a comparatively wide range. The hunting
dog, which presents a considerable resem
balanee to the spotted hyena, is an equally
remarkable representative of the dog fam
ily. Although formerly found in Europe,
the spotted hyena Itself is now exclusively
African.
Passing by the rodents, or gnawing
mammals, as being less familiar to non
zoological readers, w’e have the two spec
ies of hippopotami, absolutely confined
to Africa tit the present day; we are all
familiar with the common species in the
menageries, but the small West African
kind, which has more tHe Habit of a pig,
is less commonly known.
The stately giraffes' are solely African,
but appear to be mainly confined to the
more open districts. The herds of ante
lopes, for the most part belonging to gen
eric types unknown elsewhere, with the
exception of a few in Arabia, form one of
the most distinctive features of African
life. Many of them, like the strange gnus
and the graceful gemsbok group, are con
fined to the open districts of the South
and East; but others, such as the bush
bucks md the harnessed antelopes, have
representatives in the forest districts of
the West. Both species of African rhi
noceros are quite different from their Ori
ental relatives, but only one of these, the
common species, has a wide distribution
lit the country. Zebras, and the now ex
tinct quagga. are familiar and striking
African animals, although they are eon
lined to the open plains and mountains.
On the other hand, the African elephant
which differs so widely in the structure
of its teeth from its Asiatic relative, has
a much more extensive distribution, and
may, therefore, be classed among the
most characteristic of Ethiopian animals.
Even more peculiar are the little hyraces,
the miscalled coneys of our version of
the Bible, which form a family absolutely
peculiar to Africa, Arabia and Syria;
some of the species dwelling among rocks,
while others are active climbers, and fre
quent the forest districts. But perhaps
tin strangest mamma! that may be re
garded as characteristic of Africa, as a
whole. Is the aurdvark, commonly known
to the colonists as the ant-pig. This is u
strangely isolated creature, having at the
present day no near relatives, either poor
or otherwise.
The African buffaloes, with their several
rsi ■/ s or species, also belong to a type
quite peculiar to the continent. To a
givat extent, the ostrich Is characteristic
of Afrca and Arabia, although there is
evidence to show that it formerly enjoyed
a cons and. ruble range In parts of Asia.
The above are only a fetv of the more
striking Instances showing how different
are the animals of Africa, as a whole,
from those of the rest of the world. Of
4our.-e, there are many groups, like the
cats, common to other countries, the lion
and the leopard being found alike i.n Afri
ca and India; but such do not detract from
the peculiarity of the African fauna as a
wholi . And here it may be mentioned that
a large proportion of the types now pecu
iir to the dark continent appear to have
come from India, or some adjacent coun
try, fossil remains of baboons, giraffes,
hippopotami, ostriches, antelopes of an
American type and not improbab.e zebras,
having been discovered In the Tert.ary de
posits of India
But If the animals of Africa as a whole
stand out in marked contrast to those of
the rest of the world, much more is this
the case when those characteristics of cer
tain districts of that huge continent are
alone taken ,nto consideration. And most
especially Is this so with the inhabitants
of; the great tropical forest districts ex
tending from the west coast far into the
interior of the continent—reaching, in fact,
the watershed between the basins of the
Cdngo and the Nile, in the neighborhood
of Wadelai. Since a large number of the
peculiar animals of this district arc more
or less exclusively confined to the west
coast, extending from the Sierra Leone to
the Congo, the area is appropriately term
ed the West African subregion. It is h-re
nione that we find the gorilla and the
chimpanzee, the former being restricted
to the neighborhood of the coast, whereas
the latter ranges far into the heart of the
continent. And this district is likewise the
exclusive home of the pri tty little mun
gabys, or monkeys with white eyelid*. The
galages, which are near relatives of some
of the lemurs of Madagascar, extend
throughout the forest region; but the even
more curious pottos, or thumbless lemurs,
are confined to the west coast. Huge and
forbidding foxbats, some of them with re
markable tufts of long white hairs on the
shoulders, are likewise restricted to this
portion of the tract, Vis is the insectivorous
outer, first discovered" during the travels
of Du Chaillu. The equatorial forest tract
is also the sole habitat of the African Hy
ing squirrels, distinguished from the very
different flying squirrels of Asia by the
presence of a number of scales on the un
der surface of the tail. Dormice of pe
culiar types and tree mice are also very
characteristic of this tract. But far more
generally interesting are the pygmy hip
popotamus of Lyeria, and the water chev
rotains of the west coast, an ally of the
true chevrotains of India and the Malay
countries. So far, indeed, as the equato
rial forest tract of fauna has any repre
sentatives In other parts of the world, it
is to the Malay peninsula and the islands
that the resemblance 13 closest. IHs there
alone that the other large man-like ape—
tho orang—dwells; and there is a group
of brush-tailed porcupines common to
these two districts, and unknown else
where throughout the wide world. Botli
faunas, however. In all probability trace
their descent from the animals inhabiting
Europe during the pliocene and miocene
epochs, among which was an extinct spe
cies of water chevrotain.
The other great sub-regions include the
open grazing grounds and mountains of
South and East Africa, the fauna of
which is quite different from that of the
equatorial forest tract. Minor divisions
may also be recognized in this area, the
Cape havinO: many animals not found
further north. Among the latter are the
Cape sdnd-mole, which, by the way, has
nothing to do with true moles, being a
member of the rodent order. This tract,
as a whole, may be termed the east-cen
tral sub-region, and lo it belong the great
hosts of antelopes, the zebras and the
aard-wmlf and hunting dog. Very ehar
acterlstlri of the southern and "eastern
parts of this tract are the beautiful golden
moles, unique among mammals for the
lovely play of iridescent colors on the fur,
and which have comparatively nothing in
common with the moles of Europe end
Asia. To the northward, in Abyssinia, this
tract is the home of another very remark
able animal, the great gelada baboon, eas
ily recognized by the lion-like mantle of
long hair on the fore quarters, whose
nearest relatives are the ordinary balloons
of Afrlcd.
Whether Somaliland should be included
in this area, or should have a division to
itself, may admit of argument; but, at
any rate, it has many peculiar animals,
among which are a number of antelopes,
some of which have been but recently
made known to science.
Lastly, we have the Sahara sub-region,
which contains a comparatively limited
fanuna. passing by almost insensible de
grees into that of Northern Africa.
In some respects, especially in its gal
agos, the fauna of Africa presents a cer
tain resemblance to that of Madagascar;
but the connection betweenithat island
and the mainland was evideistly very re
mote, and must have taken place before
the great incursion of antelopes, zebras,
rhinoceroses, monkeys, elephants, etc.,
from the north, as none of these are found
in the isiafid. Madagascar, therefore, is
best regarded as forming a zoological
province of its own.
Within the limits of a single article It is
manifestly impossible to give anything
like an adequate sketch of tfit^fauna of
such an extensive area, but such points as
have been noted serves to show in some
faint degree its richness in peculiar forms
of animal fife.
EXPERIENCE IN CAROLINES.
An American Who Married the-
King's Daughter.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Dr. Richard F. Duncan, a practicing
physican of San Francisco, has traveled
extensively through the South Sea Isl
ands. In 189- he, with a party of traders,
left San Francisco in the .vessel Golden
Fleece, and during his long absence from
this country met with many adventures
and strqqge experiences. For two years
he lived among the Caroline Islands, dur
ing which time he had ample opportunity
to study Hie of the natives.
Associated with Dr. Duncan during the
trip was a Mr. Smith, a resident of New
York. Smith was a well-educated man
and an extensive traveler, but never had
lost his heart to a member of the fair sex
until he reached one of the Carolines.
"Here,' 1 said Dr. Duncan, in relat
ing reminisenees of the voyage, “he
fe)l deeply in love with a native princess.
The old King of the island was pLased
with the idea of having a white son-in
law, and so consented to the marriage. I
was best man at he wedding, When we
left the island Smith remained with his
dusky bride, determined, as he said to
siiend the remainder of his days in the
Carolines.”
The vessel on which Dr. Duncan voyag
ed had aboard a miscellaneous cargo such
as is usually carried for trading purposes.
"We carried about everything you can
imagine,’’ said the doctor, "everything
from calicoes of bright hues to Jewsharps,
bright red blankets, tobacco, thread, need
les, looking glasses,vlnmps, accordions,
hair brushes and gooHness knows what
eise. The principal articles obtained in
exchange for our goods included tortoise
shells, pearl shells, curios, sandalwood,
pearls, dyes, coral and a large variety of
pure grained and valuable woods for fur
niture and ornamental work.”
The Golden Fleece, after having been out
of sight of for forty days, anchored
in Kitty harbor, on the island of Ponape.
Here lite Providence man attended a na
tive c lchration, which the doctor speaks
ot as follows:
"A chief called Nanaby invited me to go
with him to a feast and dance in the
moumuins, and I was only too glad of the
ibnnce, 1 went ashore in a canoe and we
started on our tramp. Scattered here and
there among the trees were the native
houses of bamboo, with their long, low.
thatched roofs. The houses themselves
are barely visible on account of the dense
foliage.
"After a hard mountain climb we arrived
at the large dance house, and it was in-
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deed a living picture that presented itself.
The house was full of natives. Seated on
a platform were the chief, the tribe and
the priests. We were invited up here, as
my I tost was a chief and I was considered
to be a while The feast had com
menced. A large pile of stones, similar
to those used in our clambakes, were re
moved and we could see beneath large
quantities of roast pig, possibly some dog,
corn, bread, fruit ami other delicacies. By
courtesy to the white stranger and Ameri
can, I was served first.
“After the feast the war dance was be
gun. The men arranged themselvets in
line and gave their war cries, the kind of
noises that make one think of the demons
of tile inferno. They made many gestures
with their hands all the while, singing tg
mournful dirge to the departed, who had
fallen bravely in battle. Suddenly they
seized their clubs and spears and amative
fight commenced, each warrior giving his
baltle cry. It was a wild scene. Their
long hair flying in the wind and the dis
tant mountain peaks reverberating the
echoes of the cries, left deep Impressions
on my senses of hearing and seeing. After
the dance the remainder of the feast was
divided among the chiefs and I was given
a portion.
“The fololwing day I was in-vited by a
chief to go to his island and bring m.v
violin. We arrived after a long sail, and.
after supper, the tribe gathered together
and requested me to play the instrument
They knew some of the American tunes
and clapped their hands as I played -many
of them. When I played some of the old
missionary tunes, as “Shall We Gather
at the River?’ or 'Jesus Lover of My
Soul,' tears would gather in their eyes.
They joined me in the songs and iheir
sweet voices gave a patheticness to the
scene as the fire lighted their enthusi
astic facee. There is an ancient ruin in
Ponape whose history has been lost in an
tiquity. It is supposed to have been the
work, centuries ago, of the I’hoenecians.
The captain and myself started one day
for the island of Metalene, on which it is
situated. We were going into a dan
gerous country, as the natives were hos
tile to the Spaniards, but being Ameri
cans, we had every season to believe the
trip would be made in safety. A few
days before a sailor who had run away
from a vessel had been killed by the Is
landers. They had mistaken him for a
Spanish spy.
“After a rather adventurous eall, we
found the chief and his tribe on the Meta
lene, and were hospitably received. In the
morning the chief went with us to see
the ruins, but being superstitious,he would
nol go inside. The ruins are fifteen to
twenty feet in length, the walls of which
are crumbled by the decay of time. They
are covered by cocoanut trees and vines.
Of all the wild savages I have seen the
natives of the Rtike Islands were the
wildest in appearance. Imagine a man
with long hair down to his waist, huge
holes cut in his ears, covered with paint,
and carrying a war club or spear. We
were well received by the Ruke tribes
and enjoyed our stay among them.
“During my visit among the Carolines
the daughter of a chief was taken slck-
Contrary to my advice, they took her to
ancher island and she died of exposure
on the way. They buried her in the white
sands under the cocoanut trees, singing
in the meanwhile a liiorunful dirge, so
that the spirit of (he deceased might rest
in peace on (he bosom of their native
,god. Du lap. The little boys would walk
with me on the beach in the twilight of
evenings ar..l ask me to sing the mis
sionary hymns. They would tell me (hat
Lulap is 'mami mami,’ very good."
Dr. Duncan gives it as his opinion that
the Felew are the queen islands of the
Pacific. Said he:
“This isolated group of islands of Poly
nesia are mountainous with bold and lofty
l>eaks covered with luxuriant tropical
trees. Many of the islands are cone-shap
ed, with their base washed out by the
si a. Some are close together and. as you
wind In and out between them in your
canoe, hearing only the cooing of the pig
eons in the trees and the splash of waves
against the rooks, you are reminded
strongly of a fairyland. The Pelew natives
are kind and hospitable; their homes are
always open to the stranger for refresh
ment and rest.”
Dr. Duncan sayVlhat he thoroughly en
joyed his long stay among the Carolines
and other islands of the South Sea. He be
came well acquainted with (he natives,
learned their ways and grew to like them.
That he was popular with the chiefs is ev
idenced by the large number of curios
which he brought home with him, all of
which had been the property of the high
men and women of the tribes, by whom
they had presented to the doctor on
his departure.
The great archipelago known as the Cnr
ollres li. s in the Pacific ocean east of <he
Philippines and south of the Lad rones,
it Is divided into three groups, known to
the Spaniards, who claim them, as (Pie
Eastern, Central and Western Carolines.
The eustern group is also known as the
Mulgrace Archipelago, and the western as
the I'll- w Islands. The Central Carolines
t uni.it r between DO and 500, and are divid
ed into forty-eight groups. It is 1,800 mile's
from the most eastern to the most western
island, and from the most northern to the
most southern about 350 mtlbs. Thus,
the sea over which they ate scattered
has an area of more than 600.000 square
miles, but the islands themselves measure
only about 500 square miles.
The Carolines were first discovered b'
a Portuguese explorer in 1327, they were
noticed again in 1542, and were seen by
Legaspi., when on his way to conquer the
Philippines, in 1665. Though their exist
ence came to be well known, their unde
fined positions made them dangerous to
navigators, who avoided them instead of
seeking to explore them. It was not until
1686 that the first attempt at an accurate
survey of the islands was made, and their
name, which was originally the New Phil
ippines, was changed to the Carolines, in
honor of Charles 11, King of Spain. Be
tween the years 1817 and 1828 they were
carefully surveyed by various expeditions,
and the interior of most of the islands
explored. The Spaniards, though claiming
the Carolines, did not give them much
attention until 1885, when Germany en
deavored to take possession of them. The
dispute which followed was referred to
the Pope for arbitration, and he decided
in favor of Spain, but the Germans were
given some trading privileges.
Most of the Carolines are of coral forma
tion and rise only a few fecit above the
level of the sea. A few, however, attain
considerable elevations. Ponapi rises 2,860
feet above the sea. Vegetation is luxuriant
and the cocoanut palm and bread fruit
abound. There are also several varieties
of superb tree ferns. The population of
the Carolines is estimated at from 20.000
to 30,000 persons. They vary a great deal
in appearance. Among the western isl
ands they are of fair complexion, like the
, Vieayas and Tagals of the Philippines;
those of the centra! islands are of a red
dish color, while farther east they are
nearly black. Asa whole, the people of
these islands are a hospitable and indus
trious race, so mild and peaceful that in
some places no warlike weapons were to be
found. These natives have always been
daring navigators, and can handle their fa
mous “flying proars” with great skill. For
merly they made trading voyages from the
Philippines on the west to the Hawaiian
’lslands on the east. They had schools,
where both sexes were taught navigation
and astronomy. But as Europeans now
monopolize the foreign trade the natives
have ceased to make distant voyages.
Ponapi Is the largest of the Caroline s
and was once much visited by the whale
ships in the Pacific ocean to obtain sup
plies of water and fresh provisions. On
this island are some interesting remains
of stone buildings, about which the na
tives have no traditions. Nominally the
only form of Christian faith permitted on
the Carolines by the Spanish colonial au
thorities is the Roman Catholic, but vari
ous insurrections of the natives, converts
of American missions, which have been
established on these islands for fifty years,
have compelled them to permit the exer
cises of the Protestant religion.
The Tend Came Back.
From the San Francisco Post.
The happiest living being in tho whole
camp is, without doubt, Bitt Warts, who
came to California with one of the Colo
rado companies. Bill is not regularly en
listed either as a private or a mascot, but
he is “one of the gang." He is the flat
test and homeliest little horned toad (hat
any one would care to see, but he is
happy. Bill traveled to California care
fully stowed away in one corner of a pr!
rate’s knapsack, hut the trip and change
of climate did not agree with him. He
became listless and seemed to take no in
terest in life or flies, and gradually
drooped during the cold, rainy weather,
till one morning he was found cold and
stiff. His master regretfully decided on a
military funeral, so Bil( was buried in the
sand and a firecracker exploded over his
grave. Bill’s forgotten grave was-tram
pled by many feet during the next few
days. Then came the hot weather, when
men were forced to seek what shel
ter their little tents afforded. Whi’e some
of the hays, half-stripped, lay panting in a
tent, they observed a movement in the
sand in front of their door, and on closer
Inspection discovered Billy Warts content
edly winking and blinking in the sun.
while his sides were bulging with files
he had snapped off a | discarded bacon
rind. I
Thirty Square Biles of Fish.
From the Philadelphia Record.
New York, July 22.—“ Fish?” said Capt.
Williams of the British steamer Knight
Errant, which arrived in port to-day from
Hamburg with lI.OCO tons of Welsh coal.
“You ask me if we saw a shoal of fish. 1
give you my word, as an honest skipper,
that we passed through thirty square
miles of them, and it took us three hours
to do it. We struck the shoal ten miles
west of Sable Island and left it when for-
miles west. As far as we could see
there was not a square yard of ocean
’twixt the horizon lines that was not cov
ered with ssh, mostly mackerel and her
ring. I supixjse they had been driven off
the Great Batik- by the fishing smacks."
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