Word: nyasa
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Belgian Congo. Dim news from dimmer Africa tells of Negro giants seven feet and more tall. To study them Explorer Paul C. Hoefler and Writer Harold Austin, are on their way to Mozambique on the east coast of Africa. Thence they will work westerly across the Lake Nyasa country into the Belgian Congo uplands...
...leave the automobile behind you; in fact, a Cape-to-Cairo airplane may pass overhead any day. Last month the British press announced the death of Charles St. John, 86, last white survivor of Missionary David Livingstone's seven-year expedition to find the watershed between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika, central Africa (1866-73). Concurrently there were reports of modern expeditions, coming and going...
...sword, tapped him on the head, exclaiming: "Arise, Sir E. Elliot! Arise!" The Bishop then blessed the Knight, who shook hands all around; and the performance was repeated. Among those honored, one woman was made a Lady. Twenty gold crosses and ten silver crosses were conferred. A Duke of Nyasa was to have been created, but the prospective Duke failed to appear...