Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — The Savage and the Bird Cage. [ARTICLE]

The Savage and the Bird Cage.

▲ gentleman who went out with Stanley to Africa took with him a number of bird cages In which he hoped to bring back some specimens of the rarer birds of the interior. Owing to the death of his carriers he was obliged to throw away the bird cages,' with a number of other articles. These were seized by the natives in great glee, though they did not know what to do with them, but they eventually decided that, the small circular cages were a kind of headgear, and, knocking off the bottom,' the chiefs strutted about In them with evident pride. One chief, thinking himself more wise than the others and having seen the white men eat at table out of dishes, thought they were receptacles for food and took his meals from one. ceremoniously opening and shutting the door between each mouthful.