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Show Traveling Near Lake Chad. '' There are native towns not remote from the Lake Chad region of interior Africa where a white man's life isn't, worth a nickel. Lieut. Boyd Alexander, Alexan-der, the British explorer, was put to death in one of tfiem recently. Lieut. Alexander and his Portuguese . collector, one Jose, had encamped under un-der a tree in the outskirts of Tama.' Suddenly they were surrounded by a band of yelling savages. One. a mere stripling, seized a gun and shot the lieutenant and the others fall upon him with clubs. IT'.e Portuguese tossed toss-ed his finger rings to the natives, and while they wer interesting them- ! selves in them Jose leaeped to his sad- die and escaped. |