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Show world or that the animals have been herded into zoos. We merely mean that transportation facilities have been so greatly developed that rall-rouds rall-rouds or at least one railroad cut straight across the continent while there are few forests so nearly impenetrable im-penetrable that the Intrepid explorer Is not likely to run Into trucks and automobiles calmly speeding along on good motor roads. Even though the famed pigmies are still pictured as shy and retiring when they are thrown upon the screen, It Is evident from their very nppearance In the movies that It is not very hard to find them or to seek out their haunts. It is related by one American resident in Africa, whose contact with the pigmies developed from his often taking them Into a local trading poHt In bis car, eight or nine easily fitting Into a small auto, that nothing Is easier to find than a new pigmy village, because the little people move every few weeks. New York Evening Post. March of Civilization Over "Dark Continent" Although the current crop of moving mov-ing pictures of animal and native life In Africa valiantly seeks to preserve all our illusions of the inaccessibility of the interior of the Dark continent and of the danger of travel among wild tribes and fierce animals, the evidence is piling up that Africa Is becoming pretty well civilized. This Is not to say that Its tribes have all adopted the ways of the outside |