AN INTERESTING VISITOR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2197, 9 July 1914, Page 6

AN INTERESTING VISITOR

MR DAN CRAWFORD, FR G S

Central Africa, till recent \ears, liaS been almost completeh t>cieenod fiom llic ejes of the nations It lias been the, world's chief hum tug giound for the slave, and e\on \el in large parts of its leintoij slavery is, surreptitiously earned on'at the instance of vihito men, bj their .uiiderlinjs the Aiabs It, was the slon of tlic burning shanio / of the slaie traffic and its liorrors tliafc compelled Livingstone to, call Central Vfrica the "nearest place to tr>e bottomless pit," and that also led a Scota • lad named Dan Crawford to resohe to taUe up and cam to a complete issue Livingstone's unfinished task. Tin ston of lio \ilio entered Africa i with of 10, and m the wake'of a caravan of Portuguese slave-catchers, penetrated to the interior, reads hko a ro

niancc.' , " v Mi. Ci aw ford lcmnined tliero was 23 •\eais. Then n combination of political circumstances compelled him to take the. thousand-mile iouruej to the coast; and there lie found it would bo necessary for linn to visit London. He entered Afiiea without lcsources; he lived there mainly by tho of his gun or tlio produco of his labour; sometimes-ho ncrforce became the guest of barbarians and cannibals, sharing'their huts,' but not their diet. ,When he returned to London he had barely sufficient , mono\ to piy the steamer fare for himsel fand wife, and he left in a borrowed 0 overcoat. After he arrived there published his \(ell-known book" "Thinkini' Black." ' ' H Mr Crawford wille be publiclj tocived at 8 o'clock 10-nipht in the Town Fill. His Woislnp the Jlajoi will "preside. ''