Evening star., 1919-12-14
NATURES WONDERS
SEEN IN RHODES|A
Travel in interior by Native
Carriers Is Amid Scenes
Which Impress.

Africa. not so long ago regarded.
for the most part as "sepulcher of
the worlds most daring explorers,
now engages the attention or the
world, because of It's vast naturai re
sources and it's industrial possibilities
The National Geographic society
has been issuing a series of bulietlhs
on the boom continent OF Which the
following, based on communication
to the society from X ID. iarsohs'
is the third:
interior Rhodesia must be traV-
ersed by native carriers over noun :
tains. through primeval forest, aca HSa
rivers. through almost lpi;I from
Jungle and underbrush, III per, nos
eIenhsnts. lions, leopards. n!eha :,
serpents. the tsetse ny WIN '''
well as wild beasts ;, hoe of
Each carrier has mail Dag ol
fifty pounds. On an I dav
riers make twenty-five mIIS frnr,
and even on runs OF oo0 .hnr are sell
Broken Hill to Abercorn; 'heS schad
a. a., nnore than an hour behind scneu
,,Ia time and generally onl9 ~
tho+ They make better time IN NJ me
wet season than in the drS hs' mi.
wet. they travel in par haked' the
round sr is hot like The Valley Oh dn,l iT"
Tho,sapd smokes aud they are com
pelled to wear sanoais-
African Rain Penetrntes.
..rbare is one great drawback 10 tne
no material has yet been pro-
duced that can resist AlriGan :,
laughs at the average rupoei ~. ias,
rics. One of the feW pauo woyen
fuI materials is peculiarly 49,
ranyas made in England. ana even
,rbao mail bags of this materlal arr
onened :he contents are slmpi! pu.p
yalueless. and frequently uhu tha,
able. High grade paper suSh fact
hi
any glazed paper. SuHers mus; ~
T do not know. l suppose IL Is 'n@
combinat ton of heat and water :.
aTbe Abercorn run is wonder1ul III
many peculiar ways; past Chi.ah
where Livingstone died. throusH ~
marshy region and lake ot na1e HeIamho
across notable rivers like MalanlpG
Immbatwa, Mwinekashi. Luansehsni;;
and lovely Chambezi, Lucuiu anu
forrtaen others, of wondrous sceneIy'
through the countries OF the w
Waunea. the warlike AWempa. Tue
agricultural Awiwa, the ina,'~ thnr
ga tobacco growers) and many otuel
tribes. across the great Tanganylka
nlateau and lake, through the 1orests
of thousands of acres OF ruooer
and the wonderful rubber vines whose
roots can supply the world, anu d :.
last reach the oorder ;oa o. mna'
formerly German East Africa.
"The plunge of Victoria falls on the
Zambezi is three times that of our
NIAGARA. the roar is heard for nine
teen miles. and the column OF vapor
10 miles high. In the dialect of Mas
honaland and Matabeleland, it's name
means the water that smokes
From Kasempa to Livingstone VIC
toria falls) is $50 miles. from Living
stone to Bulawayo, 290, and from
Kasempa to Cape Town. 1880 miles
The fauna of Rhodesia is wonderful
think of seventeen kinds OF anteiopes.
Memorial to Rhodes.
"As for area, northeastern Rhodesia
contains almost $4,000 square miles
and it is only one of three divisions
What a memorial to Cecil Rhodes. the
empire builder. For barbaric splen-
dor. nothing like his funeral was ever
seen. To use phrase that amuses the
English, it laid out Napoleon's. as de-
scribed by Thackeray. When my
cousin starts on the semi-annual
.ulendo' (trip) around his district the
scene at every African VILLAGE is