Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-02

published, although ! obtained from Mr..
i-I8asidor a half promise that my article
should be the first 10 give such details
| as heels willing 10 make public at pres
| ent. In any case. however, II may be
| said that although many other explor-
ers-Stanley, Livingstone and March,
and among thsm-have succeeded In
| crossing the African continent from
east 10 west every previous trip 70
| that of Landor has been made consid-
erably below the point where Africa is
widest This is between Cape Verde on
| the west coast and Cape Guardafui on
| the east. and the distance between
those two points Is something like 1850
miles. Stanley crossed between Baga-
| mayo, in German East Africa, to Bona,
at the mouth of the Congo. and here
the Dark Continent Is no more than
1000 miles in width, not to mention the
fact that whereas Stanley made his
way across largely by water, Lander
went over and--but / was expressly
forbidden by the latter to draw any
comparisons on his behalf between his
achievement and that OF the great eX-
plorer of Uganda and the Congo.
NEARLY 5000 MILES,
Lander believes that on his journey
through the desert and jungle, tho
swampland the Senegal, he must have
covered between 1000 and 5000 miles.
though he had not figured II out care
fully when saw him. 1t took him just
one day short OF year to make the
journey. which may prove 10 be another
record when the questions of climate
and route are considered, but these are
matters for scientific folk to wrangle
over, as WTangle no doubt they Will
Considering the bare chance. however
that Henry Savage Landor who man
aged TO get back TO England from Afri'
ca without being detected by the other
newspa per men, may also get home 10
Florence without being interviewed ii
may be as well to say here that he set
out on his journew In November, 1905
at the little town OF DjIbuti, in French
Somaliland, just below the Red sea;
and that Dakar, where hs finished In
November 1906 and incidentally spent
a month In quarantine, In the seaport OF
Senegal. which lies practically under
the nose OF Cape Verde
Needless to say, considering that his
journey acIossAfrca took him more than
1000 odd miles 1t was not made In any
thing like a straight line from east 10
west. ON the contrary, as the map |
am sending herewith roughly shows,
the journey which began IN French
Somaliland took the explorer through
Abyssinla. the British Sudan and the
Congo state as far south az the equator,
after which he went as far north
through the Saharan desert as the low
er border of TTipoli. and then, coming
south again, passed through the Ger
man Cameroons. and through the Nj
gcria and the French Sudan to Tnbuc-
too. after which he made his last lap
across Senegal 10 the shores OF the At
lantic. In making that journey Ian
dor told me that with the exception OF
flying machines he made use OF every
known means Of transport, including
railways. camels. mules. horses. oxen
and men. He believes that. considering
the country and the climate. II was the
fastest. II not the longest, expedition
ever made through Africa.
GAINED IN WEIGHT.
Up 10 now by the way, Central Afrl-
ca has not enjoyed any special renown
M a health resort. II Ia just possible
thar II would however, II all explorers
resembed this one, for he told me that
one OF tho most satisfactory circum-
stances IN connection with his 1000
mile journey through jungle and desert
and mountain ranges was the fact that
he gained about eight pounds IN the
course OF II, From beginning to end IN
fact. he escaped without a single days
illness, ana considering that lac came
across the most yellow fever and ma
laria-ridden region III probably all the
world he Instances This feat as one OF
tho definite records which he ID entitled
Ia claim I'm connection with IT, He left
dozens Of tho natives who made up his
caravan behind him fever-stricken. but
not only did he not get single touch |
OF II himself but he assured me with |
perfect seriousness that there ~ no |
earthly reason why other travellers In |
feyer,laden countries should not be |
equally immune,