THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1949.
Most fantastic
holiday this
year
En Londen last week two girls finlabed a most remarkable holiday.
PAULINE MANDER, aged 22,
daughter si un Industelallat, and BRIDGW ASSHETON, Aire 22, dau hter of the Hon Ralph Anheton, M.P... decided in Apell that they would hitch-hike through
Africa. They had no plani
and they did not know the
route.
It took them tour months. through desert, jungle, volcanle mountaina, and tropical loveliness through the Africa of the European and the Africa_of_the_native_. -9,500 miles In nil. Here is their story.
by PAULINE MANDER
of them
ITH two suitcases shoreline resembling A ford, and three bundles, and with a magnificent setting tridget and I flew out
of mountains, some from Johannesburg on April 15 to our jumping-off point. "Foolish," sald our friends, "two girls hitch. hiking a continent.”
we mould
They paid
Le stranded in the Congo. Ai beat, Wo should be bick โก A fortnight At the worst. *ས་ might be swallowed
up and never heard of agaki.
Into the plane we humped! two topons in a haibox, two mosquito neta-and one mackin- 10ah.
We dispensed with suart -dresses and rţiained only two or three cotton frock "For Jungle occasions,"
For the mame reason we cach clung to one pair of nylons, powder, lipstick, and a pair of eyelash curlers
*
25 MEN TO ONE WOMAN HERE
WE CAUSED n
bensa-
tion when we landed of
Salisoury, Rhodesia, There are
25 men to one woman in this town.
We spent six days touring the country free. We mw A lot of tobacco.
Major Ruy Faran and Colonel David Suriing. the Western
Desert war heroes, met us. They have started
in new life
Rhodesia
♫
One of their lean strenuous enterprises 13 the Central African News Review to pro- noten United States of Africa. Iridget and I promised to send contributions,
We reached Victoria Falla by train, second class. The room at the BO.A.C. hotel cost us 30.
13 hard on two night, which
tramps. We saw the falls by moonlight, and got wel through
In "the forest of rain'
Nert
boat
dlay a small took us down the Zambesi. Now we prepared to make Belplan Congo, ta into the the very heart of the con- tinent.
The train for Elisabethville,
Congo's
southeriy the
most town, left Victoria Falls five
hours late, the native driver
having gone to a dance.
etive volcanoes, 9,000 feet high. There are no crocodiles, no hippopotami, nu mosquitoes, It's just like the French Riviera with its sunbathing, water-ski- Ing. pretty villas, bars and cafes and
who ride propic powerful cars and pilot swank motor launches
Yet the Equator is only two or three degrecs away and the whites came there only a hundred years ago. Many moneyed families fled to Kivu from Belgium when war came. Most have continued to prosper out of coffee, quinine. and pyrethrum (used in D.D.T.).
Noted among them in the Marquis Oswald du Chastelver, big-game hunter. Sahara plorer and reputed to be one of the richest inca in the Congo.
<x-
it needed only the glamorouя marquis with his fast cars and launches and is seven jungle
Pauline Mander
Nipm
Pigmier parade for the two "white queens" on the Jungle trail. between Butembo and Stanleyville.
our fairy
STANLE
TORY
BULAWAYOCER
The third white person was
+ Mr Temple Perkins, aged 71, He wat in ʼn tent peering Into the valley with his binoculars, waiting shoot his third bull elephant for the year. The tuska, he told un, were worth
£100 to him,
We left him waiting. When I
got back
to
England a card
me
from Temple
had Ahot
renched Perkins. He
elephant.
his
Two British petrol salesmen
Porthl took us on to Fort where their car broke down,
Here we were stranded three days at the Mountains of the Moon Hotel-12s. n day all mcals Included - whose telegraphic address "Romance."
'NO POT LUCK' SAID THE CHIEF
Is
"But, officer, we've just paid twenty, guincar for thesa seats fa-
a gentleman in Charing Cross-raad?""
Tip from a tight-wad
VER a final cup
coffee the other be fore-dawn. the head
of "When the Roman candle king showed up the following Mon- day, Emily steered him to her AT KAMPALA, in Cen-wafter at my night club got kept inquiring if there were table, and for the next five days, **
Iral Uganda, we were
to talking about the tipping any dainties she could sinuggle: stertained to cocktails by the
habits of
And Cabaka (or king) of Buganda,
present day out of the kitchen for him.
he handed her This young, Cambridge customers compared to the on Friday when he
The did everything educated chieftain talked English splurgers and show-offs of but give him her phone
the quarter,
ne number. more perfectly than either Jimmy Walker's day.
A rezult, Milkins came back Bridget or I.
In the second Saturday SATURDAY a the DIAMOND HORSESHOE
A our talk ended the Kobakta drawled in his cul- tured polee: "I'm very sorry I can't ask you to take pot luck at dinner us we are enly having native food to- night."
In Kampak we put up this notice in garages and hotels: Two English Rirls require it to Nairobi. Any offers?”
The answer tame Trom an Italian business man working for a British firm: "I have n Rapide. Would you care to fly with me?"
"I doubt whether there's been, a hun- dred-dollar tip in this town since Pro- hibition," I said.
"There've been a few," said the hend waiter. "Matter of fact, I heard about
BILLY ROSE
a row and again left
a bill under his water glass--only thin time
it was a buck.
**Judy, ΟΙ courEC, had an explanation for "Mr that one, too: Mitkins is very obser- vant, and he knew
all along that Emily
a guy who left thousand- was only being nice because she
was after his money.
dollar tip not long ago.
"Was he a loony 7"
"But this theory was knocked
Into a hamburger skillet a few "No," said the head wait- nights later when Mr Mitkins er, "he was a retired busi- walked in and demanded to sec ness man, Mitkins by the manager. tramps got to Nairobi, 000 name, and he manufactured miles away, for nothing, and in Roman candles until the time for a free lunch.
safety laws caught up with
And that
is how
the two
THE EMPEROR TALKS TO US
WE
*
An
ganda,
him.'
"Millionaire ?"
*
"You'd
never guess
When I checked my wallet today,' he said, 'I found ม It appears that on account of my near- sightedness, I left a thousand- dollar bill as a Up, thinking (1 wus a single.'
shortage of $980,
"Judy was
when the situation
zummoned
and,
was *X- began 10
back the it for
it plained to her, she 'I can't give cry way he tipped. money because I spent
HITCHHIKED next to Addis Ababa
homes to complete
I had a feeling if this had on a freight plane.
Abyssinian been the usual trek for tourists stopped us from taking photo- policeman tale.
there would have been a charge graphs in the street and told us from the Du Chasteleer showed us the for the bow and arrow. As it wonders of the Congo by water, was, we gave the pigmies a few to the blintster of Propa-He used to dine regularly at dresses and a silver fox jacket,
eigarettes and they were happy.
British territory reached after a hair-raising ride from Blutembo to Kich. wamba, by the side of Lake George, in the cab of a fish black lorry driven by a driver.
nd, and air.
OUR FRIEND GORED
BY A BUFFALO
IT IS PLEASANT. indeed. being
The
And the journey proved to be European In the Congo. more than
30 hours of low nativen appear still unspatied ព.
are eased to work for the whites.
PARTY ON EDGE OF THE JUNGLE
At Kisenyi at the northern tip of Kivu I saw the first volcanoes glowing a deep red at night, as IMAGINE OUR
I to remind us of the savagery tonishment when a re beyond ception committee met 13
1 Elsbethville station)
415%
2029
Immensely proud of his white passengers, the driver stopped to show us off in every village he passed. Each time he slopped he drank a jug of pombi, the native beer,
Soon our drunken driver was
took us to see the Emperor.
Halle Selassie received us. It was the most shastering oracal of all.
a restaurant on East Eighth she said. 'Besides, how was I to The Minister of Propaganda Street, and on Mondays he'd know It wasn't a tip?
[leave a nickel, on Tuesdays "A lip!" said Mr Mitkins. a dime, and so on until Fri- Who goes around leaving thou- day, when he'd shoot the rand-dollar tips?' works and leave a whole quarter for the waitress."
"How come the girls didn't polson him?"
We made our way In our colon trocks up the fong hali by means of three seep
CUTISICA.
We shook hands with the Im- pressive, khazi-clad figure and sat down, notebooks in bnt.
We were apparently
to skate pay expected
"Diamond Jim Brady oneu left a $20,000
the Up, sald
manager.
INVITATION
TO
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Entries are invited for the 4th International Salon
of.
Pictorial Photography Organised by
The Photographic Society of Hong Kong
A maximum of four prints may be submitted by any fone-entrant, and all prints submitted will be viewed by a panel of judges who will select those to be hung in the exhibition,
Full, particulars and entry forms may be obtained. from Francis Wu's Studio, Gloucester Arcade, or from the undersigned.
་
Last date for receipt of entries is 31st October, And the exhibition will be held during November. Details will
be announced later..
Entries are being received from many foreign countries, so here is your opportunity to try yourself against many of the leading photographers of the world.
Exhibition credits are awarded to all prints hung.
L. JACKSON,
c/o Waterworks Office, St. George's Building. Hon, Salon Sec.
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Women's Auxiliary
Appeals to the public for articles for a "JUMULE SALE" to be held on Thursday, November 3rd, from Eight AM, to Six P.M., at the Public Relations Building. Statue Square, Opposite the Hongkong Shanghai Bank Building. Des Voeux Ronil.
Clothing of any size, colour, Summer or Winter, now or worn, will be appreciated, Articles such as shoes, stockings, underwear, hand- bags, toys, curios, odds, and ends, etc, are also solicited.
Any little gift that could be used on a "White Elephant Table" will, also be Appreciated.
"Either I get my $009, sald Mitkins, or I send for the "There was talk of it," police."
- Articles can be delivered to Room 607, Marina House, said the head waiter. “Any- "'Locking me up won't get c/o Kal Yue Cheong, on or after October 17th, from 9:30' way, as I got the story, Mit- you the money said Judy, and a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. It kins came in one Monday anyhow—' And then she ex-
icarlng madly along at 70 miles half an hour, but never have and plopped himself down plained her theory about the p/this address is not convenient for delivery please call any
n hour.
This was far more terrifying
buffalo, but we had come close to. party to open a the wounded animal made n guest house in the town. We death charge and gored him in
A 'PEEPSHOW' the back of the head.
I been struck so dumb,
An America took us on big-game hunt near Mutwanga,
she had one of the following ladies who will gladly call for anything It happened that the Sabe close to the Mountains of the than any lions or wild elephantsation about the Emperor's little serviced by
I was longbig to make conyea-
at a table which was being to Mr Mitkins, how
sized him up as a
man who that you have to offer for the jumble Sale, Air Line was that evenlig Moon. He shot a
a girl named
tipped sparingly only breause he throwing
pom.ranian cog, or his beautitur Emily, who'd been around had no use for people who were KOWLOON, future, vuk speaking through the hash houses for a long after his money; and how she an interpreter put small
Mrs. Leo D'Almada tour time. Knowing of his tip had known all the time that,
e Castro, 282, Prince Edward Road, right out of court.
he was a
Telephone No. 20333. The Emperor
ping habits, Emily decided down underneath,
warm-hearted gentleman who | HONGKONG. AT LAKE GEORGE, in rescue. 1 asked now we used to wish him off
on some would tip liberally if he thought Uganda, we took the his country, remarked that he body else, and the logical a girl really liked him for nalive bus to reach Kichwamba, was tonu of Britain and hoped candidate was a waitress himself.
had bron cxpected British girl journalists."
as two
The head of the
company attended the party. Wainen guests were very chic, European wailers served envlare, tole gras and endless cocktails.
190 Tero Bared. The drinking and the chatter want on ull night and no one dedired us to write a
linc.
Elisabethville, with its 5,000 white inhabitants, entertained us for five days.
It was an enthralling experi-
living ence, like
through a scene in a Wild West fra after' someone strikey gold.
With only elementary knowledar of first aid and with primitiye help, we be- deaper- nurses to a ately injured x **,
cunie
It became my duty to shave
round the wound, six inches long and two inches wide, be- fore medical student ni n jungle mlusion ten miles off attempted to stitch it with stale catcut.
We stayed with the Amerlean. Bridget driving him many miles until we found, a doctor do miles away.
ONE OF OUR wildest thrills was to travel the
FOR THE BLACKS
our
As the only white travellers wn
all bundled with wre luggage into a tiny box com partment.
„Throughout the trip we became a prepshow for the... blacks, who encircled at cach stop and merely stored.
The fare was 41,"cach for the
15-mile journey..
THE THREE LONELY BRITONS
came to our
to revisit here.
Then we made our exit; back-
named Judy, who hadn't Ing down the long room and been in New York very bobbing half the distance. His long. Imperial Majesty bowed each
Tell ya what I'll do, kid,'
time we bobbed, and Bridget's Emuy told her, 'you're new herz, "When knees cracks.
w.rc
she had
folshed,
making ghastly and I want yn to get off to a Milkins said, "Young lady, you've good start, I'll tr.de ya. my been sc.ing too many movies,' station up front for that no but his voice softened us he told man's land of yours near the the manager, 'Never mind, I'll kitchen'
stralgaten things out with the girl.'
Nothing that remained of our hike was more than an anti-climax to that in- terview.
We were spared the Indignity of the Emperor seeing us take a lift in freight plane full of AT KICHWAMBA, a raw hides In order to rench tiny settlement over- Asmara.
Buildings were rising with in- credible speed, there Was i great bustle of trade and nearly 1,100-mile return journey from looking the great Rift Valley, At Asmara we boarded and the funny part of i'w a she everybody appeared to have Stanleyville, in the Congo, along
lone regular passenger plane to Cairo, money.
the same jungle route followed Britons, who must surely be for our tramping days were | tips. by Stanley the explorer.
But we had not beheld the finest Jewol of the Congo, they told us, until we had seen Lal
Kivu.
LIVING RIVIERA LIFE IN AFRICA
We
encountered. tluce
worth a bonic.
One was Mrs Stephenson, an We threaded through the elderly woman who has run the same thick forests attacked by only hotel for many years. 1 swarms of Insects.and breathing never tearned why she had the same unhealthy humidity. chosen this remote spot in which But at least we had a fine sandy to live, Truck, to follow.
Pigmy tribes come out from the mahogany trees and danced -
1wo white
commanded
SO ON APRIL 20 we in honour of "thic "thumbed" a lift in a queens" freight plane which New 110 Midget chicts nourly 800 miles deeper into their bands to play strange the colony.
usic to mrk our visit, and we Kivu is 82
mileg. long, the were presented with a bow and highest* Inke "In Africa, with a arrow.
Mrs Croft-Murray, appar- ently her only other guest, vos 60 years old, and so possessed by wander-Inst siroo her lateband, a Guards: officer, was
over.
RUDENESS OF THE EGYPTIANS
the lead
"All this," "sold waiter,,happened two years ago, and ever since, six nights a Mitkins cats at one of weck, "Judy thanked her, and all Judy's tables and cav.a ber a that week took care of Milkin dolar tip, but instead of a green- back, it's a receipt. And at that didn't seen to mind hu miserly rate, in October 1950 the 4000
will all be paid back."* That Friday night, when "A-fittin' finish for the story." Mitkins handed her the big sald, "would be for the old gint quarter, Judy smiled at him to die and, as a final tip, leave if he were Gregory Pecs, and ber every buck he had-in-the- *hu next day- turday-the world." "OF CAIRO I only wish | old ruot cam's back to her tablo
to record the intense for meal number six. 'And "You'll probably write it that rudeness of Egyptian omeals when he left, there was way," said my head walter, "but towards all Britons. We were thousand-dollar bil under his the wallrasses on East Eighth oyin manhandled by the police. water glass.
Street will bet you Dnything After holidaying in Italy and
It's exactly like I thought, you want that in November, spending time In Switzerland Judy informed
1950, Mr Mitkins will go back of to his custom of tipping a nickel Mr Mitkins for
himself, and on Monday: a dime on Tuesday, gives him real service, he docaust and so forth." London Ramsız Service)" Lcure how much he gives away.*
-(London Express Service)
the
and Parla. I returned to my waitresses. When someone likes killed in tho
1014-18 war that she does net desire to return Brilata.
10
honto in Notting Hill Gate a few days ago..
Mrs. F. H. Loochy, Roar 503, Gloucester Hotel, Telephone
No. 28003.
Mrs. F. Buchens, 458, The Peak, Telephone No. 29029. Mrs. V. Chan, 4, Po Shan Road, Telephone No. 33433. Mrs. C. M. van Vllerden, 26, Conduit Road, Telephone No.:
34282.
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