Show I Tit YELIXU iv AIUICI Till JO1CKEST TJtll cross THE OAIC1C a > STIS T The twelfth jutiniiy across Africa from xa to MM has been maUt l > i Cai > tulu Trivkr lie hay npinrLiitl ailutd liotliiu to Kro rajililcal din ruviry fur hU rout from coat < < to coast has brtn travLiMtl lj earlier explorers lie did not Itau the beaten path as he had l promised to MUle the lutorcslog questions whether lake lantljl la the gatherIng gather-Ing place where all the upper waters of the Congo mitt t > I Itsue from tile lake as the Congo proper and whither the Juku a river the sup pored outlet of lik Tanganyika vmplIroititoLandjI JH journey noteworthy however as the qUlck td trip yet made acres Africa I Starting from lie I west coo t alare the Congo he struck the ricr n i cjtanley Pool and liy means of I teanitrs to btariley Fags and on fake > j3sa and l tile Shire Hirer he shortened his laud l march l > y about BOO milts Ileaclilu Qullll crane In the last das DC S ember he completed his tralisconUlieula journey In a few days less than a year which Include stops of some length at Stanley Falls and Kasson go goTlie earliest travelers < juiloril Africa tool about Uiu taints tme in making the dilative from Zanzibar lo Jake Tanganyika which it not half wayacrors the continent The explorers who most nearly approach Trivkr In the cilenty their journey jour-ney aru Cnrullo and trees who In ISS4S5 tlfitil from Mortaaiexlcs lo Quillimaue along the waler let iiii between the Congo and the Zambesi III fourteen month Dr Lenr who in IsSJGt mode linen cally the fame Journey Unit Irivler has lust completed was seventeen months on the way IIIII > ton wan twentytwo mouths on lib Journc from Loanda toQuIIIImane and all the other transcontinental traveler < Stanley Cameron ifan trued Amot Vlamau Uleerup arid Sean Into were from tlitiou months f > more than three years > Triviers Journey demonstrates not only the improved facilities for traveling In inner Africa but aNo the fact that a min may now cross continent without losing l touch with civilization From every important im-portant point along the trench travelers route he was able to send letters home and his progrtfH for more than olhinU of journey was known In J uropo lKforehe himself emerged on tile shores of the Indian ocean This Is a great advance the conditions of African Afri-can travel Duly ten years ago when eiiJorers who ventured no lurther inland than lake Tanganyika were lost entirely to view for more than a yearV r Sun |