In Africa Prince of Wales Has Some Narrow Escapes

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 15 March 1935, Page 22

In Africa Prince of Wales Has Some Narrow Escapes

10 often does one read of the official life and doings of the Prince of Wales that anything which throws a light on his unofficial life is yery welcome, In "Sport and Travel in Hast Africa," one of Philip Allan’s recent publications compiled from the private diaries of his Royal Highness, the Vrinee is revealed nat only as a sportsman, but as a naturalist and explorer. His Royal Highness had two African shooting trips within twelve months, the first being in 1928, when, after an official visit to Kenya and Uganda, he went on a big game hunting expedition through the Tanganyika Territory, The King’s illness during this trip necessitated a hyrried return to England, but the Prince of Wales was not long in returning to the big game territories of Africa, and early in 1929 he arrived at Cape Town and proceeded up country to Mombasa, his visit was unofficial, his main object being to observe and photograph big game in their natural surroundings. After a few weeks iu Kenya, he started fer Nuganda, hunting in the neighbourhood of Lake Albert and the Victoria Nile, and then went on to Belgian Congo, Here he trekked some 250 miles through bush und forest, walking about 20 miles a day, accompanied very often only by a handful of natives and a_ single white man. A month later he passed into the Sudan and made his way by the Bahr el Jebel and White Nile to Khartoum, Many of the ineidents are related here for the first time. In his anxiety to film big game at close quarters, the Prince necessarily teok risks, and there were adventures which ended with a deep and definite sigh of relief, and in one interesting passage there is a very humorous account of a fact not previously disclosed that the British Empire might have lost its Prince of Wales had it not been for the unerring aim and skill of the two official huntsmen of the party, Pearson and Salmon, The former, with slight regard for his Royal Highness’s person but a yery deep one for his life. up-ended the Prince,of Wales in a thornbush so that he could adequately deal with an enraged and charging elephant, "Sport and Travel in Bas 2 . piled from the of af Wales by Patrick Chalmers. Philip Allan, Our copy from the publishers,