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...Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V, had been scheduled to efface himself, thus leaving Edward of Wales in accustomed prominence. But just before Their Royal Highnesses' ship docked at Mombasa, East Africa, an interview was given out by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog of South Africa, in which he clearly indicated a wish that the Duke of Gloucester might assume the Governor-Generalship of the Union of South Africa...
Loomed, after the brief Egyptian visit, a 17-day sail from Alexandria through the Suez Canal and down the coast of Africa to Mombasa. For the sake of comfort on this sweltering voyage the British India Steam Navigation Co.'s S. S. Mali has been improved by ripping out the partitions dividing her six largest cabins and constructing instead two spacious, airy bedrooms and a sumptuous sitting room for Their Royal Highnesses...
...Richard P. Strong of Harvard, with Smithsonian assistants, is to cross Africa from Liberia to Mombasa studying diseases of men, plants, animals. (The University of Witwatersrand, Transvaal, lately sent far and wide through Africa for specimens of herbs, roots, flowers, barks, saps used by ebon witchdoctors in their religious rites, to discover new medicinal agents...
...pleasure primarily, but also to supply the American Museum of National History with habitat groups of African fauna and to make a cinematic volume on natural history, George (Kodaks) Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., sailed last week from Manhattan for Mombasa and the African interior, accompanied by technicians of the Museum, armed with a battery of his cinema cameras in several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been...
...expedition will start early next year. Mr. Akeley is going, not for mere sport as some hunters go, but to collect museum specimens. He will sail for Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party-including Mr. Eastman-will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras...