Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-02
EXPLORER SHOWS
AFRICAN MOVIES"
Radcliffe Holmes Lectures on
Tanganyika Before Geo.
graphic Society.

Radcliffe Holmes, English explorer
last evening, at the Washington Audi
forum, took the National Geographic
Society members on motion picture
expedition into Tanganyika territory.
The speaker started at the East
African coast towns, where nimblt
natives chased the coy cocoanut to
its lair" where wells used lifts of
type thousands of years old Except
for the substitution of an oil can for
a goat-skin waterbag), and where the
Tanga traction system was operated
by two-man power.
Penetrating a little way back OF
the coast, he came upon a native chic
with 100000 subjects and 200 wives,
whose new ambition is for a popula!
type of American car. He shove
how native carriers train is organ
lied and paid tribute to these native
bearers. who, he said, had aided ey
ploration more than they have ha
credit for. He pointed out that int
r1or travel must be pedestrian, be
cause during the war more than O,0O,
horses were introduced into this Brit
ish domain, but all of them died from
the tsetse fly.
Praise for Vulture.
Notable pictures of wild animal life
were SHOWN, none of them posed
the speaker noted, and none was taken
with long distance lens. He die
not use blinds" but sought conceal.
ment In the natural environment Of
the animals congregating places.
From the fact that MANY tvnes nj
animals did not recognize the camera
lens when comparatively close to it
ne said that animal eyesight appar.
entity Is not as keen as the hunlap
eye, at least for detailed observation
IL is the vulture, acting as a SAM.
tary engineer, that makes human
visitation to this region possible. he
said. and to this bird he awarded tn,
palm for keen eyesight. When one
vuiture is discerned, he said. 1t is like
~ tnat many more are out of the oh
servers sight. These birds, contrar1
10 popular belief, do not depend upoy
their sense Of smell, but on their kee,,
vision.
Giraffes Hard to Film.
The most amazing nictura chow,
was that of an array of f1aminpoas
stretching along a lake for nearly .
mile, to depth of half that dista nee
and when these birds took wing they
FORMED remarkable few feet Of film
which he called the picture of a mil
lion birds" . III
Mr.. Holmes said the giraffe. that
four-legged animal periscope," is one
'of the hardest Of the animals to come
upon for Photographic purposes. The
rhino he described as two or three
tons of bad temper" He even caught
beetle, rolling home a food hall 20
times as big as itself.
He photographed leopards. gnus and
monkeys of type recently brought tc
the Washington Zoo by DIR. Mann.
The journeys next stage was in the
Great Rift Valley and into the great
crater country. Cobras were the ex
petitions sleeping companions al
times, but that snake is not to be SC
much feared as the mumba.
Herds of elephants were shown anf
also an unusual picture of a baboor
tribe which carries its young, Jockey
like on the back.
Kilmanjaro, Mr.. Holmes said. is
one of the most beautiful mountains in
the world, and one of the most sery
iceable to it's territory. for the melt
ing SHOWS from its great can make
possible the irrigation Of fertile areas
in its vicinity.