Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...station in the interior of Africa, a thousand miles from the coast. His experience as a traveler, explorer, and missionary in the Dark Continent has been extensive. He is the author of a book on travel entitled "In Sunny Nigeria" that stamps him as an expert on African customs...
...water buffalo, a rhinoceros, many another quad- ruped and some birds. My shots killed all these creatures except the rhinoceros, whose neck my bullet entered, lacerating the beast to charging fury. My guide checked it with an accurate shot. I told newsgatherers that I had become so fond of African sport I would return next year, to stalk a giant sable antelope (curved, annulated horns; hairy muzzle; tufted tail...
...present cannibalism is practised in British West Africa, on certain of the South Sea Islands, and among the tribes of the Upper Amazon, Brazil. The British West African cult known as the Human...
...game in Kenya, Tanganyika and the Belgian Congo. Near Nairobi natives chaired him on their shiny shoulders for slaying an eight-foot lion with two express bullets. Last fortnight came a letter from Explorer Carl E. Akeley, with the Eastman party and in charge of collections for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, saying that the Kenya veld, once a hunter's paradise, is now stripped of fauna. "The unhappy remnant . . . now has its ear attuned to the rattle and bang of the motor car, which carries the alleged sportsmen over the veld...
...Dutch name for this monster lizard is boeaja darat (land crocodile). Science calls him varanus komodensis, identifying him as a big cousin of the African monitor lizard. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum, sailed last March with Manufacturer and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan on the same quest the Burdens last week completed (TIME, March 22). The Burdens also collected: seven rare specimens of poisonous snakes (dead); a 450-lb. saddleback tapir with a 40-in. snout (alive...