SUNDAY. JUNE 3. 1962
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Lange Reports on Troublesome Areas of Eastern Africa
(Editor'i nott This U an
other in series of articles
by Lukt Ling, former
Medford resident who li on
an around lha world cruita
aboard lha freighter. SS
Fritiland. Today's articla
eoncarnt lha eastern eoait
of Africa.) .
By LUKE LANGE
Port equipment and facili
ties In Beira had been pretty
badly damaged by a recent
hurricane, and ships of all
types and sizes were at an
chor outside the harbor wait
ing for a berth. We were
anchored for six days before
docking.
Most of us had hand lines,
and fished from the ship's
stern. Our ship must have
been anchored at the hottest
fishing spot in the Indian
ocean. More than 200 were
landed in one day. A group
ol sharks showed up, and
within a few days had broken
ail the lines and ran off with
mo of our hooks.
We got a meat hook from
the galley, and baited it with
a complete front shoulder of
pork, and used a half-inch
line. The sharks would make
passes it, but they were too
smart to take it.
Gang Plank Lowarad
The gang plank had been
lowered, and we had been
swimming beside the ship.
This was stopped when the
shark! arrived.
News of our visa trouble
at Laurenco Marqucst must
have been sent ahead, because
we had no trouble going
ashore at Bcira, and were
treated well by custom of
ficials, who did not ask to see
any passports or visas.
Two Racat
This town was also full of
Portugese soldiers, and they
have more than 30,000 of
them in East Africa. With
such an armed force, they
may not have the "blo up"
they anticipate. The natives
seem to hate the Arabs and
Indians more than whites.
The two races run all of
the stores and are
traders. They are sharper than
the blacks, and own every
thing. The blacks have no use
for them, but can do nothing
about it.
I have talked to black work
men on board ship, and they
have said that when they get
their freedom, the white peo
ple can stay, but they will
get rid of the Arabs and In
dians. But if I were In Portu
guese East Africa at the time
these people are given inde
pendence. I would lose no
time in getting out. The atti
tude of all of them I have
talked to convinces me it will
be another Congo.
Our cargo loaded, we left
Portuguese Africa with no re
grets, and two days later
docked at Dar-Es Salem, a
town which along with Zan
zibar, is one of the main ports
of the country of Tanganyka.
This country was a British
protectorate, and recently re
ceived its independence. It
shows it. Here, as In Zanzibar,
natural , nearly all of the Europeans i shops and good homes, are to
have gone. I blame, and should be elimi-
The people, who clamored nated.
for freedom and were pushed j This thinking was pretty
on bv their leaders, were I well proven to me by a na-
promised the lands, automo
biles and possessions of the
white man. They are begin
ning to realize the leaders
have occupied the homes and
plantations, taken over the
automobiles and refrigerators.
At the start of one of these
revolutions, the natives are
led to believe that the whites
are to blame for their pover
ty, and as soon as they are
freed, they will have the bet
ter things of life like the
white man had. They are not
lold these things have to be
produced and worked for.
Then, when they get Indepen
dence and the white man has
left, they are disillusioned.
This is the case in Tanga
nyka, but the leaders being
equal to the situation have
given native a new whipping
boy. They have pointed out
that members of the Indian
race, who own most of the
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came quite friendly over a
couple of African brewed
beers. He told me, among
other things, that they would
eliminate the Indian popula
tion of Tanganyika within six
months. I asked him how they
intended to do this when the
Indian was a citizen of the
country just as he was.
He said the all-native gov
ernment would take care of
the citizenship, and if the In
dian did not voluntarily leave
the country, the only other al
ternative was to deport him
forcibly. If that didn't work,
killing them would.
All this was from a black
man who had received inde
pendence. This gives you an
idea of what they have learn
ed of "their struggle for free
dom." They even have race preju
dice against their own people.
If the other fellow is not a
i nember of your tribe, be is
I an enemy; and if he has more
worldly possessions than you,
I he too, is an enemy.
.Tribes Fight
! These tribes have fought
'! each other for centuries.
White control has kept it to
1 a minimum, but now the big
I gest problem of the independ
! ent black governments is the
outbreak of tribal warfare,
which is beginning to occur
i throughout Africa in , newly
1 independent nations.
Zanzibar wa the most in
teresting town in Africa we
have visited. The population
is nearly all Arab and black.
This was the Arabian cen
ter for the slave trade. The
Aralts set out from here for
the interior, going inlaid as
far as 1,010 miles to capture
their victims. Those who sur
vived the march to the coast
were shipped rem Zanzibar
ta the Arab markets in Egypt,
Indie, Arabia ami other Ian.
It has been rumored that
the Arabs still are dealing in
slaves on a small scale in this
area. It would seem highly
passible with Egyptian and
Arab dhows sailing the Indian
sees) and the Bed sea by the
hu-ntk-eate, with no check on
them it would be easy enough
to smueole a few blanks into
these countries, especially
AraMa.
& Teach W Mi
Tea miles out of Zaazibar
is a tawh af heme. After
much argument, persuasiea
U.S. to install one of 17 space
checking stations.
We visited the installation
and were shown the works
by an Army boy from Miss
issippi. They have complete
recordings of their conversa
tions with Glenn as he passed
over Africa. It was to this
station that he first reported
the yaw that his space ship
was developing. This was on
the second time around. Yo'i
could hear him tell Zanzibar
that he had corrected the yaw
by manual control and will
go around again.
The voice of the man on
the ground became quite ex
cited, but Glenn seemed to
be calm about ' the whole
thing. The station was full of
scientists, medics .and equip
ment. The entire program
seemed to be headed by the
thought of getting the man
back safely.
Equipment Duplicated
Every item of expensive
equipment was duplicated in
case of failure. One item did
fail during the flight and
! there was a break in the con
I versation between Glenn and
the ground for several sec
onds until the duplicate ma
chine was adjusted.
1 The tour was so fast and
the terms used were so techni
cal we didn't understand
much of anything. It did give
you something to think about,
listening to a man in space
from a spot on the globe
where within a few miles
there was a possibility of 18th
century slave trade with
more modern methods, al
though on a small scale.
The native open air mar
kets in Dar Es Salam and
Zanzibar are he best we
have encountered. They can
be smelled for a great dis
tance. Fish of all kinds, fresh,
smoked, dried or salted were
sold. Animals slaughtered at
daylight were sold and eaten
the same day. There is no re
frigeration, ateaas A Delicacy
Goat heads seemed to be a
delicacy, and sold for high
prices. They were complete
with horns.
Quite a contingent of Ma
layan and Indian troops in
United Nations uniform were
being shipped inland from
these ports. They were headed
for the Congo by train to re
lieve troops that have been
there too long.
Mombasa in the country of
Kenya is the next stop and
we will be able to see the
large game reserves around
Nairobi and the mountain
Hemingway made famous,
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