FROM NIGER TO NILE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 13

FROM NIGER TO NILE.

Dr. Karl Knmm (D.Vh., Hon. F.R.G.S., etc.). traveller and African explorer is t? f? vo mi l lllus| rate<l lecture in the Town Hall, rhe subject is his recent journey from the Niger to the Nile. He started from Northern Nigeria, and after many hardships reached the Egyptian Sudan, iowards tho end of tho journey while traversing a particularly barren stretch of country, the difficulty of obtaining food supplies reduced one and all to the point of starvation. That only one man died I)e1oro roliet was obtained at nn Anglofrontier station, is a striking testimony to Dr. Knmm's powers of management and leadership. I u O no part of tho interior tho explorer came across a tribo the womenfolk of which train their lips to protrude like a duck's bill. .\n. parentlv, to nssumo the appeaianeo of a duck-billed platypus is considered as a necessary part or beauty culture among the.se strange people. I u Melbourne these lustratcd lectures became- so popular wni7i Dn x t h> s , t , n, B w > H'e City Hall would not hold all who wished to attend.