The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03
NEW DIsoornnrrs M AEarOA.
HntorcstisR Faots That MR.. Cavendish hrinss
IRON the Lake Rudelf neHtep.

HnterestisR Facts That Mr.. caveuaash "r'nss
IRON the Lake Rudoif neEten'
It was reported about three weeks ago that
o young man named II. s. II. Cavendish, VINO
has titled relations, q fortune, ana proonVitioS
as q sportsman, had been murdered IN Somah'
land. Tho story of the tragedy was spoheu inc
other day, when Mr.. Cavcndish turned up In
London with an account Of his extensive uaVeis
In East Africa and tho interesting discoveries
he had made. He was away only q little over
n year, and he and tho eighty men In MS cara
van had exciting adventures with the nauVes'
who gave him some hard fights. or course
the Calais got tho worst Of these encounters
and Cavendish did not lose q man during tho
years journey, which Is a remarkable record.
He says he found coal both east and west
of Lake Rudolf that burned well, and there
was q good deal OF 1t. II his report 10 accurate
this ncws is interesting for coal has not oeeh
found. hitherto In any part OF tropical AIricai
except for some distancealong the Hamposi
Most of tho region around tho two lakes,
Sefanie and Rudolf, Ia pitted with anciont cra,
crater that has yct been discovered in the dis.
trict.. The natives call II Sodigo vo, and " Is
about o milo and a half wide and l,3oo feet
His, predecessors in this lake region were
Teleki. Donaldson. Smith and Bottego, none OF
country to the west Of Lake Rudolf. It may
be. however. that the records Of the Bottego
expedition, n part of which were recovered
after tho massacre of his party, will contain In.
formation about the west side Of the lake, for it
Is said that Bottego visited that district. Cav.
endish supplies the first information OF that
region. Ho assembled q mountain 5000 feet
hiEh, at the north end of Lake rudolf, from
which he had an extensive view of the country
to the west. He says 1t IL a mass of mountains.
entirely uninhabited and exceedingly difficult
to traverse. He journey ed west of the lake and
traced the whole Of the west shore, hitherto un.
plotted on our maps. For a width OF about
fifty. miles 1t Is quite fiat, when the land rises
suddenly into the mountains. 1t IL subject to
cry great variations often flooding the country
Count Teleki found at the south end of Lake
Rudolf the only active volcano then known in
Africa. Two years ago DIR. Donaldson Smith
found this volcano still in u state OF eruption,
shattered by a great convulsion and where 1t
stood there Is now a plain OF lava. He dis
covered another lake south of Rudolf in which
was II volcano that had also been shattered,
killing the fish In the lake, whose bodies COW
cred the shores.
Round the shores of Lake Stetanie' the eS-
plorcr had some excellent sport, and 1t was hero
that he WINS caught by a wounded elephant.
ing less than miraculous. The great beast, mad
with rage, was charging, mo. whcn, at the criti:.
cal moDlcnt.m M gun failed, and ! had TO turn and
run. But the elephant soon caught me, and going
his tusks. Failing in this, he caught me with his
trunk, and flung me round under his body with
the idea OF crushing me to death. How ] es-
capped l do not know, as / was IN this situation
gtent brute got up, and kicking a piece Of wood
which he doubtless took to be my dead body made
off to his retreat. Curiously enough. l had no
bones broken. but / was covered with blood
certainly had some remarkable experiences and
| has brought home Information of value.