| Show ll T HE ri 1 CONTINENT I N 1907 I FRANK G CARPENTER THROUGH WRITES THE WILDS OF HIS NEWSPAPER OF AFRICA I I v S I 01 tile Deser t Nc s b G Cr t I FRANK G 1110 WorM Who J Jurk tor Iho or 1 t l Copyright by U ItY I 1 In t j if 1 Till ImN en ent t i ON route tOl nee am 0 J i J I 1 I I now on my way 1 tf J 1 i to a 1 I 1 I A o tho ot Africa If f Jt t for lilY The North l fJ tho It I t J I Irn upon which I havo hooked for GibrAltar ew 10 ago rt it I iI our J I to bOM smooth i 1 v Wo tho 1 I n ot rJ f 1 I l lands to I j t now tho Ii f continent thirsty I i 1 It th AtlAS ft J 0 i whIch IIII Into the I I 0 t m r t tho ot l H t extremity or th f r tho homel ot tho who b their re ent ot tor j h I n 11 It Willi In the when t IJ J 1 it this const with the jr 1 11 J I h pirates 1 t H enslaved and nil Iho ot f t I i h Eurove On m other I In view with J J t my 1 con seo tho ot r 1 tha Spanish CIullo from j r i jI I I l tho ot tho f 1 J to tho corning Into or out ot Iho Ju t tIn In front ot me Iho mighty rock M GIb GIbraltar with British Is looming up at tho foot ot It tho tho harbor I shall lalle shill for Ion I letter Is my In the ot tho O L LIy Iy today h My will ono week tM will to until tho or ormy my will be writ ton on tho ground In mIdst of tho theil InK 1 what I to them o the Ir rIJt III to ht II l nl ono It will the ot till black will In ludo moro It will coer tha ot t trim rim 1010 one end 10 Iho parts or ot I the tho nn will torm n ot It Iud the SUI cuna I tho Nil the Hed ell the will be 1 hall gO thA hol lIl t ot tho Suld to the ot JoP will man Thou and Mifu of Travel by lind Raa And on and andon on Que tion oE Modern Pro reu Studied on the Morocco Com and the HoW the French Are Reforming the Under the front Nubia and the the Great African Lakes at the Source of the the Cape to Cairo Fall Are Big lier Than anda or En landi the African Has Developed Since the and i of etc I Into the wild It the Interior 1 hall bit lalI 10 up tho river central to tha horden ot Lake and Tanganyika Atler that 1 visit the thence o don Into paris of which oro now d b white dI their curious of civilized lite The tour III 0 Ion It I o to It In It will ot A ot by enry means of locomotion or It be On ouo Inc ami arts foot It will bl In In big In Ullon tho now building The be to limo In with tho ot tho nt It also by tho In news ant tho of travel The ren flon for the Is to Icuro tor tho ot It wilt bo my ob to hunt out the new tho willi tho lU CO In C I Itle a IIvo or 1111 of The blaek continent 11 rapidly changing Dad tor n es It Is now ot Iho enters of tho globo BIg on III nil parts ot It the 11 they exist t are to be found In n ot the r of tho My let will be country Is In Much n will un slate now 1 do not to get rho rs lire on the ot I revolution the cannot control his m n who l In 1 go froll to Is tho port ot country hero tho consuls tho center for 1111 10 loor the Is Ing near theN all I I shall ba ahle tu Ivl live o tho situation as asIt It 1 write n Jetter n the who 11 ot tho nn earth his the I tell you l sin Iris 1 0 1 about Sam In the queer of Moorish 8 anti how oUr can I will tho at nt siva of the turbulent peo I pie IX UC J IO my Into tho great French France hll land In Africa almost other O miles or more thun ot tM continent A or extends troll MoroccO clear tho can to tho desert It la laII which were tho ot tho world tho the the Romans nrc till Franco ot theo J for JUAt or a and she hM thoro shown she can do In the way ot I that AI Kerin hils rOAds an that J be ablo to got to almost part ot It by or by carriage I to vIsit the famoUs ot io lell you how old looks to get to a city as oM as which tho French aro no out ot of tho Sahara That IH It wall as aM Pomp 11 Its ruins arc In many ar moro IN TilE Ono would think the desert ot Sahara could chungo region ot Band the would to bo de and dead III not the case Tho ot tho Sn hara III now the control ot Franco Its oases are being ell ellby by menns of artesian wells being built Into It and It Itha ha become as The French established II large number of military In It anti they now II camol police which the caravan tracks I ahall go godown down Into this desert on edge ot the danger are no later shall visit the thero and ot tho farther rost After I leae the I will tie lite In Tripoli In the llos Nt ot Libya and also In tho great ArabIan de ert whIch lies east ot the Nile In the oases I tit the plantations which the chief tood ot these arid to show how the now heln III creased b the new hlenn of rench Irrigation fIlE IN AFRICA urke BUll hM In Africa Egypt hus been gobble up by the British Tripoli Is and It Is the most ot landl It Is aboul 10 ns big RII tho of New York and Its capital Is tho t conter o the of tho Libyan desert 1 of the Ara Nights There ure going from I be beable able 10 visit It 1 1111 not sure that I will not be to It tr m b the whIch KO tho gult or little towns ns e It 1110 this I hall be to tho hol city of lit the to which the just to aM In Au ll It for to enter but one can seo at rouan that an armed gua rd LS IN to many nell things In Inthe the ot the Nile II now un under der control ot the h and tho Is booming under schools ure b ln rail railroads roads lire ond tor the first time tho dars of hB the Fel Fellaheen laheen rte an rho cot cotton ton lands being a 1111 are set by byJ J an American far up tho valley on tho edge of I ex to 10 tell 1111 how cotton Is raised by bythe the I that they now about a million an 1 half acres planted to that rop null that their cotton Is better than also some good on Irrigation for our farmers C 01 Suez In tho light at our big nt will be Interesting Thill built within II It hilI been from tho stort For 10 It hns on tho aver than In nud as It Is now too small to the nn canol will bo built LETTERS At this writing the extent ot my trav travet et III be outlined 1 hall gO UP the by raIl and to thIS I reigned may possibly malHI m WilY on Into His lIot probable that I may so on 10 U an and d and the Inkes by way ot tho Nile 1 may llo so Tho Is unhealthY tho enly possIble wa through I 19 vII foot so that It would many s of hard I Inke of the on the and II to vl lt tho upper Soudan and will then return t the Nile joins tho Nile proper and from there cross the lles ert to tho Hod en The havo building a h I t was to have Leon com completed only last THE CAPE TO or my In cn will be tho ot the 10 Cairo railroad 1 over Its northern from to and will bo upon It Wady to 1 will he on route In will travel over something like 1500 miles ot tho portion ot It In going from tho Falls of the through Hula to Capo Town I havo re eel veil letters tram the rod ha been northward tor a ot about miles nUl that 1 shall hI to If I b It to the lr ot th willi est parts of It III now n t tho rate ot a amile mile n 11 will soon reach lal e Is long Is delp nil tho Its upper Is not n from LaIO amI for a time at will Ira to thence b steamer Ul 10 the or from another strip of will connect Worn with Ic torla Irom Victoria the sec section tion ot railroad will probably he built to oh tho Nile n tah o of h thousand or o where will connect them with tho railway system ot I to have Bomo tho great reah lokes t a These 10 with our gnat lakes In Bur Jass them In The are lur by mountains I Mount and Mount on my way to tAka H H J JJ H Mount high h tho of tho African moun tallis VictorIa Is tho 01 tho It 18 to bo big It Ilea about nr from tho Indian ocean M Cleveland Is the It III now accessible b n which through I land ot ble Ono hord ot the car boen known ot com comIng Ing Into tho carl at night when the train Val antl tho out ot berths also butted the the tracks with their no el and the Kot In tho way ot the en engl gl nes ot VictoriA lies In aM to the other Is In I anti Is controlled by the Ger Doth nations hae their tittle and I be ablo to explore o thIs lake and to tho I upon Its shores Some 01 natives 10 naked tho ot necklaces and ot while otHer their with and dress In bullock bIdes Tho people at bark cloth or cotton gowns but they take ort when they eat eo not to oil them Indeed they are quite they havo good road they 80 many that tho English to with the ll In tho ot Eu Europe rope AT OF NILE I expect to tho source ot during this trip lAke Vic Victoria toria The flows out ot tho lako through gulf a with a so great that nn enormous ho ThIs matter I un under der by the gov Below Uganda fOI hundred ot mites thero are vast beds ot reeds which It III thought lome day tur ot Tho ancIent made their paper or tho ot tho library were ot this Tho It grows Is ns tho a ot but one whIch In Its paper 80 1 1111 told ot tho wood pUlp ot the d sta tee teeInG InG IN Wo wont to think that we nil at tho big things ot the world Wo talk about our big country our J a 1111 our 1 1 hava just It Is now II Lako Superior anti thero la no but that tho of ns high anti their tor o h auch that 3 hono power Is tIN ns much ns tho loa power ot the ure to mako ot It I expect 10 visit the ot the Inland East AfrIca through to Another thing I hall will bo the Nile llam at Thill ns hIgh as a and ns as tho wIdest It back tho Iud en tho valle below to 11 vo 11 lar supply without to a high or low Thill a ter territory to Egypt twice as large ns the state ot It has cost millions the ot how It vas built may contain for our nt Panama who will hac to cl Ir at and Gamboa GEHMAN AND J lIeo ot German H I aM I Southwest VIsit The Ge out cotton tho coast nt thoy aro Zanzibar aM the railroads to east coast tIlO t ConJo visit their 1 E Iball will allo gO to Salaam Jort at tho ot tho th bier to TanganYika rut nM the Ea t ts and It Will I doubt un Mt tU letters NI W have t South Tho Kold or the tand ns are In eight und riley thoy gold sliver mIning Is now dono by tho labor Is Interesting and I to visit how the show Is Illig worth ot now throw I tho I I shall 0 Into Overy ancl de how the out I may be oble to aro give points rom diamond how to expert as to pro teat tho real thu Paste trOa Other will be given th development ot on the rapid ot what has ot the Ind alo ns to American Joers trudo wUI bo descriptions ot tho Thero DU Ule their homes In short mad In a serle IIvo et pictures ot tho ot tho south I today continent as It It Is Impossible to more than go II of the ot n tour Ilk story ot lilY must wok to week tho and ary In nc the news nM with what I With on tho I nANI O |
