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Show WILL EXPLORE AFRICA Rev. Peter MacQueen has left his pulpit in the Harvard Congregational church at Charles-town, Charles-town, Mass., to go into the African interior on an exploring tour. He tried to resign, but his congregation con-gregation instead gave him an indefinite leave of absence. Dr. MacQueen prefers the exhilaration and excitement of travel in far away lands to the monotony of pastoral work. He spends much of his time in the former pursuits. He was with the Rough Riders in Cuba during the Spanish war, with Gen. Lawton in the Philippines, in South Africa during the Boer war and at the front in the far east during the Russo-Jap unpleasantness. un-pleasantness. He has visited nearly every corner cor-ner of the earth studying races, fauna and flora, .and topography. A native of Scotland, he came to America in his sixteenth year and graduated from Princeton. Although a naturalized citizen, he was elected during the past year to the Royal Geographical society of London. Dr. Mac Queen is 45 years old. |