The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-05-18
STARTED AT AGE OF 70
Moving Pictures For Natives
Capturing Strange Beasts
Horn of White Rhino Over
Yard Long - Learned 10
Speak Three Dialects Of
ongo Tribes
ernest Dupuy in The Washington
Herald.)

Ernest Dupuy In Inc VdSIiAiSloi
Herald.)
Three thousand miles Of weary
tramping. through fever haunted jun
giles in the miasmic heart of the kon-
go basin. strange encounters with say
age beasts and with human beings
almost as savage, the discovery and
classification for science, under en-
ormous difficulty, Of rare forms OF
African flora and fauna in spots never
before trodden by the foot OF white
man-all these things belong in the
adventures Of James Chaplin, the
Staten Island boy who, with Herbert
Lang, has obtained for the American
Museum of Natural History, in New
York city, the most complete collec-
ton of natural history specimens that
has ever been wrested from the mys-
ferrous depths of the dark continent.
Six years of work-Of eXhauSting toll
under the grilling sun and teeming
rains of equatorial Africa-were ne
cessary before the great task was
completed.
Forty Thousand Specimens.
Now Chaplin is Jack with the first
installment of the great collection,
while Lang, still in Stanleyville, is
experimenting the tina packing of
the rest of the fruits OF the expedi-
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more tina 40, 900 separate specimens.
The rare okapi, the bongo, almos as
rare but less widely known; the dwarf
elephant of the Kongo basin, a species
that for many years scientists have
argued about; black, square mouth
ed n white rhinocerous scaly ant
eater, buffalo, giant, Gland and here
tofore almost varieties OF
dainty antelope are represented in the
hnpp naCkinu % cpc full Of frnnhioe
that when at last brought here will
necessitate the building of a new wing
by the museum authorities in which
to display them properly.
Started At Argus of 10.
Chaplin, a tall, loosely knit young
chap of 25-he was 10 when he lef
Columbia University in his junior
blue eyes and a trick Of frownins
when he is engaged in thought-pro
badly learned in the blazing sunligh
OF Africa-does not at first glance re
semble a man who has hiked his wa.
through the African wilds. His skin
while tanned, is not of the hue tina
one would expect from one who ha
lived and worked under the equator
But for all his youthful face he car
ries himself like n accustomed t
giving orders, while, as for the tar
he has q his long sea trip fror
Bona, via Liverpool, to New York, i
which to get rid of the effect Of tn
suns avs. He vas already an orni
biologist of some note in scientifi
States.
He was a member OF the Stat
Island Association of Arts an
Sciences when he was Is years oil
and had at that time one of the mo.
complete collections of North Amer
lean bird life in existence. Some
the rarest specimens at present in TT
American Museum were presented
it by him.
Had No Adventures"
Young Chaplin Is very modest ar
refuses to believe that he has hin
self accomplished anything wonde
full, although he gives great praise
Mr.. Lang for what he has done. !
for adventures, he shook his head al
laughed when 1 asked him if he he
had any unusual experiences.
NO, l was in great danger
he said. "And L had no adventures
How about animals 2"
"Wen, the nearest l ever came to
wild animal vas when l shot a bi
that dropped in q thicket about
feet away. AS / walked toward
what L had taken for a heap of bru
suddenly resolved itself into a rhin
ceros, who clambered to his feet, loo
ed me over, snorted and ran away.'
Hyena Entered His Room.
or course. it all depends upon t
point of view. So far as the writer
concerned, if a perfectly good rhine
eros should suddenly appear a
snort at him from 4 distance of
feet-well, modesty forbids boasti
OF the speed records that would
broken. No adventures!
he also told of how, while aisle
in a village in the Ituri district,
hyena entered his room, ate a numt
Of birds he was going to stuff a