WHITE WOMAN IN AFRICA. European Ladies Who are Pashing into the Depth's of the Dark Continent.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 8

WHITE WOMAN IN AFRICA. European Ladies Who are Pashing into the Depth's of the Dark Continent.

a number of white men who aro now I In Central Africa have followed tho advice of the celebrated explorer, Dr. Barth, who many years ago expressed the opinion thai the travellor iv Africa should take his wifo with him. He said tho nativoa did not understand how a man could live without a partner, and that they would hold him in greater respect if ho was accompanied by his wife. Dr Bavth added that the people he mot south of the Sahara had nothing against him except that he was a bachojor. Dr. Livingstoue'd w ife shared the privations and danger? of com3 of hid travels, and it was while they were making a long journey together that she died and was rmried on the banks of tho Zambesi. It is ■only recently, however, that white women have begun to accompany their husbands into tho depths of Centra 1 Africa. If the young wile of Dr. Holub, tho Austrim traveller, eur\ ives their great undertaking bho will have made a longor journey in Africa than moft exploieiv. Nearly two years ago this bravo young couple staited from South Afiica, intending to explore tho Upper Z mibesi and Congo \ r alle}s, and to go home, if possible, by w.iy of tho groat | Jake.-? and the Nile. After Dr. Holub returned to Austiia, a tow years ago, having earned a place in the fiist rank of African travellers by his seven >ear^ of work in the Zambesi region, he iruuried the attractive md gifted young lady who is now wandering y> ith him among Sctvairo tribes. The en"trt.aties of her friends could not turn her from iier purpose to accompany her husbin 1 " 1 in his new cKploiutions. About ?'>D,OOO was raided to buy their equipment, and when last heard from, two months ago, they and their baud of porters weie plunging into almost wholly unknown regions of the Upper Zambezi. Mr.-, iic^ub was in excellent health, but her husband had ferecl to t-ome extent fiom fe.-er. Last spring Lieuten mt aleho roturned to Europe for a vacation, after serving fur tlnee years on the Upncr Congo Soon ■after his return ho maviied a fair Dolgian, and two months ago ho and his bride etarted for the Congo, whero ho has re-enlisted in the service of itu Free State. At list accounts the> were at Stanley Pool in good health, and were about to start for Stanley Falls, 1,200 miles from the sea, where they will re-ido. One of the most extensive travellers on the Congo is the wife of the missionary "Grenfoil, v ho, with her ctiild. accompanied Mr Greenfell on some of hi? long journeys, during which ho pushed hi-> iittlo steamer over three thousand miles of the navigiblo waters of the Congo and its ruii lonts. On an island in Lako TaeanyiKa, not far from Ujiji, where Stanley found Livingstone sick and almost destitute, live Mr and Mrs More, who aro among the pioneer missionaries of tho lal:e rogion. The r.nhealthtulnes? of the mainLind ba3 driven them to thi* ielan l i. whee they have a pretty mission stition, and v,hera Liejt. <ileerup, on his tnj. acro?j the con f inent this year, en joj ed tLo hospitalities of a while lady in Cenrii! Afiiei. A carpenter name-" 1 . B irq-lay, who is stationed at Lulr.nburg, far up the Kassia affluent of the Conge, v. hero he ha 3 very successfully opened a plantation on which he has raised big cr n r- or rics, corn, ?usarcane, manico. utju E^rops-.n vegerabie^, has expres-ed the i >, ich at tne end of hi 3 t9rm ot service to biisy hi^ wife and ebiJ dren, now in Germany, to Luluabuier, and devote himself to hi* plantation and cattle raising. Two other emp'oyes ot the Con cro Stato, Yon derFt-bon. the Captain of one of the steamers, and Scmipider, a g-unmaker, -.vho?e term? of -ci". ioe have s-.jniea, have petitioned the Government for psL'tnir&icn to settle on the Sautu'-n rivur to open plantations and raiS3 catcs. Dr. V.'oil, to whom their patition was referred, has ach i=cd that it be granted, and has expressed the opinion that within certain limits selected emigrants from Europe irwiy -tifeiv be allowed and even encouraged to scUle in the same region. — "N. Y. Sun."