The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-02-22

IS Africa is today, and has
N sssz.s.sa1ay been in the past, re-
.;s;S,ed for civilization almost entire
linen In their early twentles. II
land Of golden opportunity for
II Aain Ewart Scott Grogan made
l-fs hmarkabie journey when still 8
lberVl adge university undergraduate.
pnong his way of spending vacation
YaNsf we are TO believe popular
LIZ. also his way Of winning
ave. charming and beautiful wife. !
H. heard 1t said that Grogan was
III nv the lady who is now his Wife
Y before she would consent to mar
bet him he must come to her having
sus that which no other man had
ID able to accomplish. And out OF
romantic dare grew remarkable
eeYe nent.
only fitting that o woman
=.,d.orlI J the guiding spirit OF such
nr1ssH 4ertaking. Men will attempt
/ tah for the love OF a woman. HIS
-ky alone proves this. And in har-
al nv with the spirit OF the great ad-
Aare, the little weather-battered
=, ID flag, which Grogan carried
)sMghout his journey, was accepted
ayenilr late Majesty Queen Victoria
ct Grogan for the first time in
sAf, British East Africa, early In
" that ia to say. some six years
soa Y his historic tramp through the
. lls1 T Continent" He Is tall. clean
It'd glish gentleman. remarkably
El Sme and with dark hair and
Offcs,l haven face. He is fully six
Donald Oh and splendidly proportiened.
justiee Is not look the part Of the great
lele We Had not known otherwise.
49, I'D have set him down as an
. $500. 81 country SQUIRE gentleman
81 doubt, but scarcely tanner
81 wiids.
T,pSr / got to know him well, for
ID taken UP land In East Africa
f,itteds kerested himself In the develop
o S pIpf the country. He has built a
nue.. Itone house on q lovely knoll
oking Nairobi, and here he now
li-Swith his wife and family.
|EGls.gHhgan first saw Africa during the
~ belle war Rhodesia was then
The railway nad only reached
king and his xperiences during
=, initial venture were not such as
Meave him with any keen desire to
Neat the experiment. But the un-
achable spirit Of the veidt was up
him, and In comfortable England
Use trials sank into the misty obli-
ll5pn OF the past; SO that in short
aelve months he again started out
NJ Africa's tnhospitable shores. But
ssSg time his purpose was inspired by
y wish to conquer Africa In new
4, The stupendous Undertaking.
accompanied by Arthur Henry
up, Grogan landed, in the end of
u. fuary, 1898, at Beira, port of
: tuguese East Africa. and set out
= march from Rhodesia to Cairo. via
~ zambesi, Chiperone. Lake Nyassa,
Mnga, Tanganyika, Dusisi Valley,
- Ssrt Edward Lake. Katwe, Toro.
ga. Semiiiki Valley. Albert Nyan.
sled PIPER Nile, Wadelat. Kero. Abu.
-. Bohr. Dinkaland, Nuerland, the
NRJsat River. and thence to Cairo by
! vi of Khartum.
On glancfng at the map OF Africa
~ will realize In part what a stu
Ndous undertaking this was 1t is
Wlization which has made such rapid
sgress Though the hinterIand. but
Rt must II have been in those early
Ss, sans railway, sans steamer. sans
bd, - comfort? Moreover, re-
emoerNesat not only had they to
dNngers innumerable from wild
but also from the natives.
w. y not yet come TO accept the
ind majesty of the white pres
GEosickness, hardships. terrors. all
had to be faced and overcome.
4 journey to Karonga was less
ang than the later stages. 1t con
4 Ted OF nothing more difficult than
i &c calls with lions. buffalo and
4 enceri.
1 ujlji which Is the historic point
4 Tn anley's meeting with Livingstone,
found on the foreshore a grue-
array of grinning skulls. relics
days of Arab performance, to
onoa all travellers that Ujiii was
sfhe heart of the great slave
ulcer Of the past.
stuffina the Natives.
~ had made up their minds to
\ pc perilous and unknown route
: enda via Lake kivu. and with
inbred and fifty native follow
an escort of six totally inex-
! Missisa natives with old rifles they
al on the adventurous second
me great journey,
rs and days after leaving
All had to travel along the
q small lake. OFTEN they
pc up to their middles tn
avoid the n,imosa thorn
A tharan. 2 made passage by land
Liouors AS the lake was swarm
cold 50 cfocodiles. this made
~ of excitement. Added
poaI worries, fever reduced
spitiabie plight. Grogans
A nr;va. went up to 1869 degrees