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Show A White Woman' Expedition to Africa, I Mrs. May French Sheldon, wife of E. L. Sheldon, who represents the Jarria-Conklin Jarria-Conklin Mortgago Trust company in London, is about to engage in n trip to a wild portion of Africa as the head of an exploring party. Mrs. Sheldon has lived most of her lil'o in London, although she ia a native New Yorker. She has given great attention to African exploration. Her home in London has beeu ttie rendezvous ren-dezvous for African explorers and stu- Sho has been for a long time an intimate inti-mate friend of Henry M. Stanley. She ! says she is going simply because she wants to, and is going to run the expedition expe-dition herself and to suit herself. She goes to Africa for the purpose of learning learn-ing the ways and customs, legend and folklore of the natives nnd incorporating incorporat-ing them into a book. Sho is to sail from England in February, and will go first to Zanzibar, thence to Mombasa, and then will begin her journey inland. Mrs, Sheldon says: Tho expedition will bo entirely my own, the honors, if any, shall not le divided, and the criticisms and of course there will be inuuy must be ' aimed at 1110 alone. I shall be tho only white woman in tho party. I shall be attended, of course, by several black j women. I will also have such military protection as I think necessary. I ex- pect to reach Mount Kilima-Njaro. My ' little venture, I feel sure, will bo a comparatively com-paratively safo one. I shall be in Africa three months. Exchange. ' |