CAVES IN EAST AFRICA
A remarkable system of subterranean caves in Herman East Africa has been discovered and partly explored by Father Ambrnsius. a Roman Catholic missionary, and Kerr Tlmrmann. a Herman official. The oaves are situated in the Matumbi Mountains and natives never ventured further than a small srrotto. the first one encountered, as thev said an evil spirit dwell within. The two explorers discovered a hole at the end of this grotto which led to a cavern .1300 feet in lenprf.li. filled with deep pools in wlncii stranrrp eel-like fish lived. Slalaclife* and stalagmites 2o feet in lemrih were plentiful here. Further searches resulted in the discovery of other husrc caves at deeper levels.' A second level lay !.-,() deeper, a third (10 fret below I lie second, and n fourth DO feet below the third. Kmm (his the explorers had to r.'frcat. as thousands of bats attacked inem. and their lanterns were in diinjrer of beinr; extiii'.'uished bv these creatures.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19110617.2.76
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 330, 17 June 1911, Page 10
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162CAVES IN EAST AFRICA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 330, 17 June 1911, Page 10
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in