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Show Quinton Crockett Writes Of Missionary Experiencs In Africa high, but they said that was sult'-cient. sult'-cient. Everyone liau to be Ui camp eacli evening by t p. m. t;iu could not leave again until afic-' C a. m. During the night it nothing unusual to htar Ihe cle pluuils up-ruocing tr- e or a Imi: roaring ver- near by and in lac it often kept us awake. But the tough part of it was catching a glimpse of it actually being (' inc. One day we spotted se en bons. six of them being lionesses. ' in the early morning sun about 10'' yards from the road, and about 75 yards from them were several re-bra re-bra grazing. We watched to ' nearly fifteen minutes before the lions got a whiff of the zebra and when they did they were after them in a flash, but it all happen ed (the killing) just beyond envision en-vision through the trees and behind be-hind a little koppie. I would ha :e given a lot to have photographed a lion making a kill, but again v c didn't quite make it. I liked the giraffe bettor than any of the others and got several good shots of them. Buck is so plentiful thorughout all the reserves that it isn't uncommon to see several head of them grazing about the grass and trees and we hardly disturb them at all as w-e j-ide along in the car. They are very pretty and we saw about fifteen different species o buck while there. (Editor's note Following is an interesting letter from Quin-tin Quin-tin Crockett, LDS missionary to South Africa, to hi . parents in Preston, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Crockett. It is leprinted here to give the readers a better understanding un-derstanding of the wilds of Africa.) Kuger National Park, South Africa Dear Dad and Delia: Hello from the wilds and hown I am writing to you from the bolder bol-der of the Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and Portuguese .'iast Africa and in the famous Kruger park. We are having a vonderful lime enjoying all the mimals and nature in "darkest Africa." We left Johannesburg and orove io Punda Mavia Rest camp the first night over some "real" roads African style. I think it is near, iy 400 miles but from riding I'd say closer to 1400 miles. Anyway, we I'ound the camp to be nothing more han a few thatched roofed hunts vvith a two-strand barbed wire fence circling about to keep awy any animals. We roused a native attendant out of bed and got fixed up in a couple of kiya (huts-. When morning came around we found the environment to be nothing more than nature in its rawest state, but plenty nice. We cooked up a meal and took a bath (imagine (imag-ine a hot water bath in the wilds with natives to clean the dishes etc. for you). The funniest thing about it is that a rooster is kept ou the place to rouse every one up very early. My idea would be to get a lion to roar and wake them up. The car we went up in, 1935 Chev. with a long wheel base, proved to be an old crock and we did have a great time trying to keep it in the be-t of running order. or-der. To shorten the story, we had four blow outs, two of them wv.ite in lion country, we also ran out of petrol (gasoline) in the heart of one . f the loneliest roads up there, and to top it off three spark plugs went out and the timing was not (correct. It was fun to have to stop in places where no one was allowed out of his car and fix a flat or the car to fix, but in all we encountered no trouble and everyone every-one had a wonderful time. We find that it cost us plenty to make the tji-ip, but I feel that it was best investment I've made while down in South Africa, something some-thing I'll never forget. I hope my pictures are good so I can show you folks how it is. Until next time I'll say so long and hello to all. I am sending in a different package a book about the Kuger country, so I hope it reaches you okay. Cheerio . . . Best of Love, QUIN. n n 111 traveling we are not allowed out of the car only at ccnam places for that reason we don't hurt the animals, nor they us, in Met the only restrictions being not to kill the animals and to keep from getting killed yourself, (not a bad idea, that last part). The first day we went up inU the hippo country and in going and coming we saw zebra, spring-hak, spring-hak, waterbok, keodoe, monkeys, warthog, dinker-bok, hippo,, crocodile croco-dile eland and baboon also several other kind of animals. Boy, was it ever fun to grind away on my movie camera at all these in their wild state. What impressed me so much was the vegetation and trees, it was really wonderful. If you remember what it looked like in those "Frank Buck, Bring 'Em Back Alive" shows you can get a good idea of what this looks like. The only thing to mar the appearance appear-ance is a little clearing to serve as a road. The area of the reserve is about 8,000 square miles and that takes into consideration a lot of ground. Every wild life to be known in Africa is found in the reserve, it of course, you are fortunate enough to see it all. We found our stumbling stum-bling block w-as in seeing the ele-, ele-, phant, leopard and cheetah, but made up for it by observing thous-1 thous-1 ands of giraffe, lion, wildbeeste, , ostrich, water buffalo, wild pig. impala, inyala, eland, sable antelope, ante-lope, zebra and others previously mentioned. It was certainly a thrill to see all these in their natural nat-ural habitat and see how they "exist "ex-ist in life. 1 took about 60 snap shots and 200 feet of movie film and I'm surely hoping the results are accurate in depicting the story of our adventure. I liked the way we were "protected" "pro-tected" at night with a couple of barbed wire strands with some gate netting enclosing several little lit-tle rondovals and thatched roofed huts. The fence was only four feet |