The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-26
By HARRY R. FLoRY

CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Circumnayiga tion of Africa and penetrating int, the very heart of the Dark Contin ent. including regions which only two white persons-Stanley and Liv 1ngston, the great explorers have ever seen are the goals of two ex. ploring expeditions which recently lef, Chicago.
 W. D. Boyce, the publisher, is the leader of one party. Dr. Richard B Wetherill, retired surgeon and globe trotter, of Layfayette, Indiana, and Thomas Duncan, Lafayette manufac turer, have inaugurated the other ex. petition.
 Boyce expects to utilize the material he collects in writing a book, treat ing the whole of Africa comprehen sively in one volume. Wetherill and Duncan expect to make an anthropo logical study of the head hunters and natives of Central Africa.
 While Boyce's chief forays into the interior will be made from the west coast, he having previously explored other sections, he intends to visit all the countries of the continent.
 A "Balloonagraph Expedition into Africa in 1909 and 1910 first won fame for Boyce as an explorer. From two balloons, the first and last ever taken into the jungles, he took aerial photo graphs of wild animals and native life. Big game hunting also occupied part of his time on that trip.
 Africa was the underlying cause of the World War" said Boyce, in outlining the reaesons which promp ted him to make this trip. q have a notion also that 1t will prove to be the underlying cause of some future wars. At any rate, it becomes in. creasingly important as European na tions press their claims and conces- sions there.
 France in Africa is greater in ter. ritory and population than is France in Europe, and you could lose England in the British territory in Africa, ant it would be difficult to find 1t agair as the proverbial needle in hay. stack
 "The Turkish influence in Nortf Africa is increasing, and that may be indicative of profoundly imporant de velopments."
 Incidentally Boyce will renew his previous acquaintances with big game although that is not the primary ob ject of the trip. He may interview savage chiefs through the aid of { dragoma, or interpreter, but chiefly he will Hook in" on every country o the continent The trip will require from six months to year. When Boyce's book on Africa is completed he will have covered al the countries south of the equator ant in the equatorial region of the world iii his various books of travel.
 Stanley and Livingston are the onl. known white men who have evel travelled the route laid out for them selves by Dr. Wetherill and Duncan
 From Port Said, Egypt, the adven turers will proceed down the Nile tt Cairo and thence to Assuan. At Ra jeb they will be met by their party of native guides and servants, fifty. five in number, and proceed on g safari (journey on foot) southward They will pass through many miles ol jungle country infested by wild beasts and cannibals.
 The travellers will have abundant food supplies, hunting paraphernalia and photographic equipment. They ex pect to penetrate the Belgian Congo then move far southward to Zanzibar From there they will go on southward until they reach the diamond fields the Kaffir country and Cape Town
 It was with great difficulty that they arranged with the British and Belgian Governments to visit parts ot Africa where uprisings are brewing