Show uka aidt acair tk TRAVELS MILES THROUGH AFRICAN JUNGLES IN CHEVROLET SIX i DETROIT alach july auly dr arthur torrence anthropologist specialist on tropical diseases and follow fellow of tho the coyra society of 0 england stopp til d oft here recently on its hla way home from hla ails fifth trip to africa on oil bel entitle expeditions carrying him on his way to call fornia where ho he Is a a member of tho the Po Fo and of the mew cal school ot of the university of ceu fonnia was waa a 1929 chevrolet six which ho he drove across the continent of abrica A falca from the east to the west oveat coast through miles or oc jungle passage ait under the cars own power except t for an impassable miles A studies of sleeping sickness on which dr torrence la Is an international authority took him to his early missions to AM africa there he made surveys of oe the deadly tsetse fly spreader of tho the disease and mong dilong tda his strange st ranga cargo here were two gmell crocodiles afflicted with the ailment which ho he taking homo home for further observation oteen raton vaton they are veritable reservoirs of the parasitic germ lic he reported on an earlier expedition dr tor trence rence happened into a 0 strange tribe of dwarfs in the lako lake chad district on tho edge of the sahara desert which one school of scientists believe are a rement of pre civi civilize liza ton and may prove to be the cradle oit af tho the human race 11 they live in caves have a kind of ft jabber instead of language subsist on roots and vegetables and resemble pygmies zol though lacking in courage and aad stant stam ina dr Torren Tor ces further studies of nt ibs vw them during tila his most recent trip are to bo be set down in it a book from lila his pern entitled two other cars started out with tho chevrolet on his transi african trip dr torrence Tor renco readi reported tod one proved too light tor for tho the atre noua going ond the other was waa in atho the chargo of a hippopotamus hia 1118 route carried him from east africa through belgian congo bronch and lake chad to nigeria on tho the african gold coast in september dr torrence Ton ronco plans a trip to now guinea to study leprosy in its native state |