African Mysteries
A: It seems to me that most of these bold spirits were trying to do the same thing. B: What, find gold or ivory or something? A: No, although many of the explorers did come across ivory hunters. I’ve read where some of them made fairly long journeys in boats on the rivers and lakes where there was an ivory cargo aboard. It smelt like a freezing works in the busy season, only about a hundred times more concentrated. B: Ugh! But what do you mean, they were all looking for the same thing?
A: They were trying to solve a mystery-in fact two mysteries, One was the mystery of the Nile and the other the mystery of the Congo. They were very curious to know where the sources of these two great rivers were. The ) Nile, especially. It had baffled generations of men through the centuries. Men in those days made long journeys along its course, but always its length reached out farther than their
farthest journeys. its +UUU miles jong, you know! B: No wonder it baffled them, then. And how long’s: the Congo? _ A: About 3000 miles.-(Winter Course Talk "Litting the Veil-Africa." 2YA, May 5).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 5
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200African Mysteries New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 5
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