The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-25
SIR JOHNSON TARRIED HERE. Great Nature Authority
 Is In City. LATE OF THE DARK CONTINENT Has Been Hunting Some in Middle
 Alabama. Talks of His Work Pending Which Is Prominent - Has Advised With Roosevelt on Afri-
 esq Huntins.
LATE OF THE DARK CONTINENT

Returning from trip to the South ern part of Alabama, where he had been in company with J. o. Thompson. of Birmingham, Internal Revenue Coi- lector. and Ernest Thompson of Tus- kegee, Sir Harry Johnson, of Sussex, England, is in Montgomery for. few hours. arriving in the Capital city Tuesday night at S:30 o'clock. He will remain in the city for a short while today. when he will view Mont gomery and it's beauties.
 Sir Harry Johnson, late of Africa, is recognized as an authority. upon the Dark Continent, it's people, customs, and especially the big game to be found in that veritable sportsman's paradise. Because of his familiarity with the province of Urgandas into which President Roosevelt has plan ned his hunting trip. Sir Harry has been called into conference with the nations executive several times. aid ing the President in mapping the itinerary of the trip, posting him upon the exigencies of the excursion, and upon the game to be met in that sec tion. It is because of his widely-pfo- claimed conferences with Roosevelt that Sir Harry has acquired something of note in this country. A
 Sir Harry Johnson is in the United States, as he stated last night, upon a trip os pleasure, the first real vaca- ton of his life, and the first relaxa tion during his thirty years of service in Africa. He has been for several months fin America, and for a fort. night in the South.
 s.rhe people Of the South hardly ap- preciate their land,' he declared. ''The forests. while beautiful. are suf- fering threads that threaten their beauty and even their life. There should, in my opinion, be more atten- tion paid to forests of the land. and to natural beauty. Materialism should grant some concessions to perpetun- tion of beauty"
 Accustomed. in Africa. to luxuriant forest growth. Sir Harry Johnson found his, way South to revel in tho flora of Dixie, which delights him, and, as he says, should delight every lover of the beautiful.
 Sir Harry Johnson goes to Birming- hah with Mir. J. o. Thompson, and thence to the Mississippi river, which, though he has never seen 1t, he ad- mires because Of the graphic pictures urawn of the stream and its life in Mark Twain's 'Huck Finn" and rom Sawyer" of which he is an admirer.
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 'T especially want to see Missis- sippi river roustabout, as I was much attracted by the pictures drawn of that character in Huckleberry Finn, but they tell me that the roustabuuts are all gone, or are rapidly disep- bearing to be replaced by steel cranes, which load and unload the boat" declared the Briton.
 Sir Harry is the author of, several books upon African life, among which is 'UEanda," & graphic exposition of life along the Congo, telling of the slave trade, and the British colonies. and the efforts of civilization in fhe- jungle. For years he has been sta tioned in that province as Consul Gen. eral, as army officer. and he has also been given the mission to aid in the abolition of the slave trade of British Africa.
 He is engaged, at present, in the compilation of a biographical sketch. entitled, George Greenfield and the Congo" which tells of the life of the great Baptist missionary Greenfield. The notes were taken by Greenfield during his work in Africa being in- d.ended for construction into an ex- tensive volume depicting African life. Greenfield dying before the construc- tion of the work. Sir Harry Johnson
  widow, to complete the book. which had been the dream of her husband. The book will be ready for distribu- ton by the publishers shortly.
 Sir Harry Johnson is accompanied by his English man servant in his tour of the country, and by no other com panion. The servant is also an able assistant, being a photogrs pher of ability, and the collector of the pie lures which form so interesting a DOT tion of Sir IIarry's literary works.
 The Englishmen will remain for a few weeks in the South, whence he will go to Cuba, and then will prob ably return to England. While in Alabama, he has been, for the most part, with J. O. and E. w Thompson, about Conner. He drove through the country from Tuskegee, with Mir. E. N1