CONGO EXPLORATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 17, 18 September 1915, Page 4

CONGO EXPLORATION.

A well-known traveller and explorer, Dr Cuthbert Christy, recently returned to England after a three years' scientific expedition in the Congo, undertaken for the Belgian Government. Dr. Christy spent eighteen month s "m a part of the Ituri forest hitherto practically ' unknown. He began;' M& expedition at Bona, the mouth of the Congo,' at the beginning of 1912. and went up to Stanleyville, thence trekking across to the Ituri'htid'inWthe forest. In the unknown! portion "Of the Tturi he 1 canie across 1 some re-, markahle people' Who, '> 'by means of dull rocT'lines 1 fainted in various directions the body,, render themselves invisible. They :organise great drives in the'forest, -catching the animals, by means of netsi They, are very 'shy and quit* naked. The work of getting through the forest was, vei;y trying. Constant ( rain, continuous twilight, and a plague of flies and ticks made progress hard, Practically the whole time marching was through water, often waist deep. The food problem was a serious one, and sometimes the -traveller had only a feu 'bananas 1 ti£d io his'belt, and often had to subsist entirely on wild kola hut. A detailed • story of hi s adventures with'these strange peoples will be awaited! with interest; j