A MID-AFRICAN HENLEY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1925, Page 4

A MID-AFRICAN HENLEY

RKIN'CE IN A CAXoK. LIVINGSTONE (Rhodesia). Yeti a paramount chief of the lla- | lots.c.s ol North.mi Khedema, met the I'l’ime In-iLiy under the most jiicturcsi|iti i.oiidiiioaM of any native iuthiba ■! the tour. The - cue ua - like a nod-African , 1 trull".. ,\ great clearing laid been iiiad-' in the thick Wir.lt that line- a hank cf a -modh shining reach of lb" Zambesi. Here the Uarot.-e • 1 1 i«• 1 1 *tin in :i uniform covered with gold lace, arrived in a stage barge driven by forty muscular and half-naked paddicts. i-tand-i inp upright and dancing jerkily with their shoulders between the strokes, while the chief sat under a huge eggshaped white awning amidships. Alter speeches and luncheon under awnings of thatch, the Barotscs, who had travelled 1100 miles down stream to greet the Prince, had a native regatta. A STRAAV HIPPOPOTAMI'^. They raced with long narrow canoes end speared a straw hippopotamus with keen imitation of rent hiniting paddling cautiously up, hurling their snears, and then dashing away in haste from the supposedly wounded and struggling giant. The Prime insisted upon taking a turn up-river in one of the narrowest dug-out canoes. Its live rowers though standing erect seemed to have no difficulty in keeping their balance hut diretly the Prince sat down in the middle the least movement on his part , sc the craft rolling like a mg. llis staff, especially the naval mem- • hers of it. looked on apprehensively, j and as fie was pushed off the Prince ' called hack cheerfully. “Von had hot- I ter turn the guard out. f may fall in am minute." j IN A MAGIC GARDEN'. ! The Prime saw a majestic spectacle during his visit to the mighty Victoria Kalis. IT is eyes had in them a set leak of fascination as he gazed, into the depths out of which a perfect rainbow (limbed on the white spray until it tea lied Die brilliant sunlight glittering on the wet foliage of the • trees. j The Prince passed through “Rain f Forest" a luxuriant licit- of trees of > brilliant green eternally drenched by j the spray from the falls. | Soaked through mackintosh and i clothes to the skin as were all his ' party, the Prince nevertheless linger- 1 ed here for this is the most magic gar- • detain creation, where rainbows have j boon captured and made to grow a.s . flowers. Exclamations of amazement had hardly died on the Prince's lips ]>efore , la- found' himself getting into a mo-

toi-hoat a few hundred yards from the falls, on a river as placid as an English . lull k.vater. Suddenly the Prince exclaimed : “By j'ove. a crocodile!" The Prince was iu-t levelling a revolver at it. when, with a swirl of its tail, the crocodile dived like a stone before the Prince had time to fire. |