SENSATIONAt ADVENTURES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1654, 22 January 1913, Page 8

SENSATIONAt ADVENTURES.

FIGHT.\viTH- A GORILLA,

A Glasgow i engineer named • Gordon Campbell, in company-with Mr. Robert W. Taite, a ■ mining engineer, las had sonic remarkable adventures: with cannibals and wild beasts .while on a bunting expedition in Central Africa. Their story. has. come from New York, where Mr. Tnito arrived recently on his way homo to'Los'-Angeles, California, after spending" ,eight inonths in Africa; Mr. Taite has been-prospecting for gold in Africa for, about, ten years, After a brief stay in America he. proposes to return to the African continent to' renew his work there.- ",.'■-.■"', Accompanied by Mr. Campbell, whom ho met at Zanzibar, ho started a year ago to cross Africa from tho east coast by way of Victoria Ny'anza and the Congo River. .. t ' ' In tho bod.Of one small stream which flows into Lake- Tanganyika, Mr. Taite said they picked up t gold nuggets, and would have stayed there longer if tsetse fly and mosquitoes had not proved so formidable that'not even tho native porters could stand, their' bites. ■■."'■', '" '•:

At Stanley Falls Ifr. Taite and Ms companion had a raft constructed.to -carry thorn down the Congo ttiver. On "the voyago to Lcoppldsville the raft was capsized by hippopotami, and two of tho natives wore eaten, by crocodiles Wore they, could reach: the shore. Three others were drowned.

They, wore attacked-by cannibals in tho night," and a native was killed.' Another black wont mad with'fovcr, and had to be shot to save the lives of tho party. Their .last negro; according to Mr. Taito,.was seized by a big gorilla in a. fight when they were half-way down tho and after being stablicd (he.animal disappeared, dragging the wounded roan away under his'arm into the junclc. Mr. Taite and his companions were'finally resound "from their ''dangerous ■surroundings by a party of Belgian rubber hunters near Leopoldsvillo.