The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-30

been before, and has been everywhere in Japan, Australia and America
 She was at Mukden during the Russo Japanese war, in boys clothes. Few wom- en have seen and done so much; but she is not a suffragette, and women's clubs bore her.
 Through Africa Alone This journey through Central Af- rica, said Mrs. Roby, in London yes- terday to the Daily Mirror, "is the most remarkable thing I have ever done. T had as few bearers as possible, and for hundreds of miles was alone, except for my black bearers I mean I had no white escort whatever. When my bearers became mutinous I had to deal with them unaided. I had very good boy named Thomas, who was faithful to me, and saved my life when l had bad attack of fever and my temperature was 107 degrees by consistently pouring cold water over my head after letting down my hair. T was quite unconscious and had given myself dose of morphia in the hope that, If I was to die, l might pass away easily I slept for five days His face beamed when l opened my eyes. Always when I was on the march I slept with my guns loaded by my side ana a 1eNOlNeT unueT my plllOW- Some times the bearers were sulky and would not put up my tent so l had to sleep In native hut, on my camp beadstead, placing fresh grass upon the bedstead, which I collected myself. There were so many lions about that the bearers would not march in the moonlight, the best time for getting over the ground.
 Tn the earlier stages of my journey, soon after we left the railway, two poor fellows who fingered behind on the march were devoured by lions.
 'Once I shot dead leopard who was about to enter my tent That they might not be tempted to rob me, al ways sent my bearers half mile away at night, either into village or across a thicket.
 With Bath and Bicyle "I asked on arriving at every village If they had any native beer; where they had it bought certain quantity for each of my men, and told them they must have no more.
 "Of course always wore mems clothes When the native paths permitted I rode my bicycle, which a bearer carried for me if the paths were rough My bath, too, was taken everywhere with me, and was a great comfort. took great many snapshots and taught Thom- as how to take pictures, so that he could photograph me.
 My parrot, whom I call Schuseku. the Swahili word for parrot. was brought to me at Nya Lukemba, on Lake Kivu.
 "She eats monkey nuts chiefly, but since she has been in London she has become fond of toast. She learned some Swahili bad language from my bearers, but her English is above reproach.
 There are no horses in the Congo state owing to the tsetse fly. l had litter, called a machila, but never used 1t ex- cept when i'll.
 T had three attacks of fever, and the last was so bad that I had to make my way when I was convalescent from Lake Victoria Nyanza to Mombasa, and thence on February 2S on Messageries Mari times steamer to Marseiles.
 'One lock of my hair has turned gray, but I am nearly well again now.
 'I went across from London to Brus- sells last week and spent over an hour with M. Renken, the Belgian minister Of the colonies. who was extremely in- terested in my impressions of the Con go. I have been asked to lecture before the Belgian Royal Geographical society in the summer.
 After my last attack of fever at Vic toria Nyanza I was stone blind for 24 hours and one eye remained blind nearly as far as Marseilles.
 "On my way to the coast my bearers neglected my six rare monkeys, and three died The other three I have lent to the Zoo. One black one kicks with his hind legs like a French boxer-la savate
 'I found the Belgian officials very kind everywhere was given a special per init to shoot elephants, and used it. I killed a hippopotamus.
 q am looking forward to going out again in the autumn. I was not held up ty the rainy season last year; no other woman explorer in Africa has def1ed the rains.
 q have looked very careflly into things myself, and I am satisfied that what are called the evidences of Congo misrule have been grossly misrepresented and ex- aggregated.
 Escaped Sleeping Sickness
 .sThere are to be seen more cases of mutilation in Northeastern Rhodesia than in the eastern part of the Congo State, as a. matter of fact but I believe that most of these mutlations, of which so much has been made, are simply the result of intertribal wars
 "The smallest of the three monkeys l brought home, now at the ZOO, saved from being innoculated with sleeping sick ness.
 iHe was put with his sister into cage where there were tsetse flies, which con- the disease. SIe CduSHl II, put aged to escape into the woods. carrying the infection there, I am afraid As he was still free from it I obtained posses sion of him.
 '"rhis disease is kept down among the natives by strict measures. For instance, my bearers were not allowed to leave any post till severally declared free from 1t.
 Central Africa is paradise, and enor- mously wealthy in minerals.
 Do you see my ivory bracelet. which I saw cut from an elephants tusk in my honor by chief?
 My parrot does not mind the climate of London at all She perches on my shoulder or bosom like a pigeon. She never bites or pecks.
 "when her cage is opened in the morn- ing she flies across on to my bed. She loves me very much. Don't you love me, darling?' And the parrot tenderly crooked It's beak around her finger.
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