Show A TRIP INTO CENTRAL AFRICA SOME home sometime time ago an expedition organized for the purpose of new explorations pl orations of the dark continent Y was furnished with four elephants ba by the belgian government the animals had bad been brought from india and trained to carry burdens burden S carter and nankin made mado ma do the attempt to travel with them into africa from zanzibar ts t imke lmke tanganyika the beasts were loaded each with about fifteen hundred pounds of baggage and merchandise a terrible burden even for the ponderous elephant on a journey in equatorial africa one great grat drawback to explorations in that region is swarms of nia fla called tsetse which bite cattle and horses eo so as to poison polson them to death the elephants it appears were bitten badly by the sebut showed no signs signa of poisoning or other injury but bleeding however three of them died after reaching their journey journeys 8 end but this was more than anything on account of the heavy loading about twice as much as they should havo carried the experiments with the elephants is considered a success sue bue mess and it ia Is thought that with the experience peri ence thu thus gained guined a great advance has been ben matler mailer in n solving the problem of opening up central africa to commerce and civilization |