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Show FR;LAND PIONEERS. Thex Ilave Gone to Find Their Valley ot Eden in the African Wilderness, Dr. Theodor Hertzka's plan to found an ideal commonwealth in east Africa is being carried into effect with great rapidity. ra-pidity. Late in February the English members of the pioneer expedition to Mount Kenia left London for the continent, conti-nent, and a week ago the pioneer corps Bailed for Mombasa, on the east African coast. Their ultimate object is to organize organ-ize a colony in which land and capital will be free, and everybody will be well clothed, well fed, well sheltered and well educated. Their immediate object is to explore the land round their so called valley of Eden, on Tana river, and to select se-lect and limit exactly the territory which the colony or commonwealth of Free-land Free-land is to occupy. Dr. Hertzka has been exceptionally successful in obtaining powerful patronage patron-age for his ventursome enterprise. Not only has the British government granted him land and moral support, but the Austrian authorities have also given the little band of reformers much encour-ment encour-ment and some money. The lloyal Museum Mu-seum of Natural History in Vienna, for instance, has presented the pioneer expedition ex-pedition with the apparatus and instruments instru-ments for procuring information and collections of the flora and fauna of the valley of Eden. The lloyal and Imperial Military and Geographical institute of Vienna, the South Kensington museum and other societies so-cieties have also given practical proof of their interest in the explorations. All fresh knowledge will be promptly communicated com-municated to the Royal Geographical and other societies. Among other things the Freelanders have set themselves to do is to institute a regular service of small steamboats from the mouth of the river Tana to the limit of navigation, about 850 miles, and to carry on experiments experi-ments in the domestication of the elephant ele-phant and zebra. |