The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05
EXPLORERS AND HUNTERS.

f. r G. s Illustrated by, sixty -four
Plates from Original Phot%srs 1ns % Pms. ms.
Comradc Peter DuJkcwich. Published
by l.. c. Page & Company. Boston
This handsome and profnsely Illus
tratcd book is the record of q hunt
ing and exploring trip through Uganda
10 Victoria Nyanza. the kilimanlaro re-
giou. and British East Africa. with an
account of the ascent of tho snow,
fields Of Mount kibo, in East Central
Africa. aud Il description of the Narl-
Gus native tribes. The artist seems 70
have been The impcllinG cause OF THIS
trip. He called upon Mr.. Mcqueen, the
author. in New York in the fall OF
1907. and asked him Ia 20 with hlm on
this trip 10 the wilds of Central Africa.
Both were experienced travellers; the
arts, had ranged world -wdo, in Aus
tralia, New Guinea. Now Zealand, ia.
pan. India. China, Siberia, Turkey, tho
Philippines. aud many other countries.
He had photographed the Canadian
Rockies, the Sierra NcVadas, and the
Mexican Cordilleras. Hc accompanied
the expedition To Pckin in 1900, and
was with General Kuropatkin through
the entire campaign in Manchuria ip
Russia s great war with Japan. Mr..
Dulkewich proposed to the author of
the book tour TO the beadwaters of
The Nile and to East Africa, for the
purpose Of photographing aud writing:
Both were fond of wild life and OF
hunting, and the portion of Central
Africa wherc they proposed to 90 was a
new field which would naturally be of
interest. Each was familiar with the
details of preparing for such trip,
and they started for London on Octo-
bcr 26, 1907. They reached DanDlbsr
carly i'll 1908, making 4 study of that
island from 4 scenic aud romantic point
of view Then followed the expedition
up the Uganda Railway. trip to Kill
maniaro. and travels in the Mount
Kcnia and Victoria Nyanza regions, all
made i'll the latter half of 1905, and
IN January and February of 1909. In
his preface the author says;
Equatorial Africa is one of the most
fascinating and mysterious countries In
beautiful as an opium dream, banefqll
as a nightshadc. One day man is we'll
and strong; the next he is dead and
buried; The fsultless climate OF Nairohi
deadly shores Of Victoria Nyanza and the
fatal sudd of Bahr-cl- -CiaZal,
But Just as the Americans improved
the conditions in Cuba and Panama. so
will the English. French. and Germans
probe into the snmhrc mysteries OF
Africa. dispcl the clouds with which II
make it. in few decades, Il land OF
Hight. learning, and liberty.
There is IN account OF the geograph
zeal outlines of Africa, of the romance
of African exploration. of Zanzibar.
MombaSa the Uganda Railway, the big
game country beyond, tribes and Gus
toms travels of rbc plain and forest, the
province of Moschi an American ascent
of Kilimaniaro phases of Jungle life, n
,fl1 moo nj Nuirobi JpSrrihfIrpS of tho
British East African protcc toratc, Port
Florence, the Mount Kcnia District, the
kavlrondo people, thc great Victoria
NvanZn. the Uganda protectoratc, En-
febbc the English capital of Kampala
the historical capital, an account of the
development of Uganda. treatise on
the slecping sickness Of that region and
a chapter on the fountains of the Nile,
The illustrations are very MANY, cover
ing three pages TO schedule. There is a
good photography and practical work
ing index.
The book is written in the breezicst
style and is full of adventure, hunting,
stories OF contact with the different
native peoples, their ideas and customs,
and in general of their friendly and uu
suspicious character. There is a good
deal about lions in this book, aud the
curious statement is made that the lions
have begun to find out the difference
between white men with their powerful
guns and the natives with their spears
and bows and arrows, the effect being
that the lion will run from white man
hut will attack Il black man without
hesitation. ii is an entertaining work
a"'' imclv. owing 10 the reports that
-" tolccrapbcd from time to time of
NJ. Rooscvclt's success in his hunting
irip in the very region described, among
others. III this book. That this writing
and picturing are the result of practical
exploration, hunting. and travel is
abundantly evident ON every page, and
IT is a right good book in every re.
srcct.