| Show march of civilization over dark continent although the current crop of moving picture animal and native life in africa valiantly seeks to preserve erve all our illusions of the inaccessibility of the interior of the dark continent and of the danger of travel among wm wild tribes and fierce animals the evidence Is aning up that africa is becoming pretty well civilized this Is 18 not to say bay that its tribes have all adopted the ways of the outside world or that the anti animals nals have been herded into zoos we merely mean that transportation facilities have been so greatly developed that railroads or nt at least one railroad cut straight across the continent while there are few forests so nearly impenetrable that the intrepid explorer Is not likely to run into trucks anti and automobiles calmly speeding along on good motor roads even though the famed pigmies pygmies are still pictured its HS shy and retiring when they aro are thrown upon the screen it to Is evident from their very appearance in the movies that it Is not very hard to find them or to ont nt their haunts it Is related by one american resident in africa whose contact with the pigmies pygmies developer develop erl from his often taking them into a local trading post in his car eight or nine easily fitting into a small auto that nothing to Is easier earler to find than a new pigmy village because the little people move every few weeks new york evening even ing rest post |
