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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1930.

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DAY AFTER DAY. MONTH AFTER MONTH AND YEAR AFTER YEAR WE TELL

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AY after day, month after month and year after year we tell people about the really remarkable results derived through the use of the correct grade of Gargoyle Mobiloil,

But because we have something to sell, and the price asked for it is a trifle higher than the ordinary run of like products, some people are suspicious. They think we are trying to "put something over," and consequently pile up wealth at their expense.

Those very people are the ones who are helping sellers of cheaper lubricating oil to pile up. wealth. They are buying — generally at fancy prices, tog — from two to three times as much lubricating oil as they really require, and as even two gallons of the cheapest of the cheap motorcar engine lubricants cost more than one gallon of the best, they are actually throwing away money.

But this isn't, the worst of it these cheap lubricating oils naturally lack quality. And conse- quently they can not adequately protect the 1,500 moving parts against wear.

TWO WHEELS ACROSS

AFRICA.

STORY OF A GREAT AFRICAN ADVENTURE.

[By Louis Kraft]

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Below appears the concluding article by Mr. Louis Kraft, Johannesburg motor cyclist who rode across Africa from East to West using. Mobiloil the whole way. Mr. Kraft tells of

ot it. I ran over the nasty thing,' but on the tail-end. It swung back and hit my leg. but as I wore top-boots no harm was done. Still, my heart. went out to Mr. Fitzsimons, and I was glad to be in possession of a dose of his valuable serum. In French Equn- torial Africa I saw snakes in in- creasing numbers. At Fort Lamy, an outpost near Lake Tchad, skins at the rate of 5,000 'n British trader was buying python

month.

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"Where the Rain Comes From."

Two thousand feet below, Lake

the more adventurous part of his trip-from, Kilimanjaro to Kano Albert glittered under the vertical City, the home of 80,000 vultures.

is healthy; the railway station

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ONE-WAY ROAD AKWE TAPA Monday-Thursday

TAPA-AKWE Wednesday-Saturday

́DAYS CALLED DEAD Tuesday-Friday--Sunday'

I was going to Tapa, so I could proceed without breaking the law. But I soon discovered that on a Tuesday I would have run the risk of breaking my bones and that on a Wednesday I would have been killed. The road was very in the hillside.

narrow and ent

A car coming from Tapa would have crushed me against the wall.

experience of driving fast round blind corners without having to bother about oncoming traffic: this went on for 48 miles.

sunrays. The hills on the Congo side, 22 miles away, were faintly In a country where one is grate- After Nakuru bégan atiff visible through the haze. In a

Emb. The Equator was not far south-westerly direction. Ruwen-As it was, I enjoyed the unique ful for small blessings, Arusha is

way, and the nearer I got to itzori, the highest peak of the particularly satisfying: the climate conjures up visions of accessible 9,000 feet was reached

the colder I felt. An altitude of Mountains of the Moon, appeared seashores and mailboats; the hotel left the

before I for an instant, and then was southern half of our swathed in clouds and remained has good beds and a good cuisine. little world. From Eldoret, where | true to its name, which means,

During the afternoon I saw a and the added but doubtful ad- a large number of South African "Where the rain comes from." solitary elephant in the distance, vantage of being exactly halfway Dutch have emigrated, I had an The rest camp was already de and after putting the machine on between Cape Town and Cairo. uneventful 110-mile trip

some amateur to the cupied by a forestry officer who the stand. I did Three miles from Arusha 1 Uganda border. A storm was sang the praises of the precious, stalking and secured a couple of rounded a corner and saw Kibo, brewing on Mount Elgon, and in timber to be found between photos, I reached Feradje the the highest peak of the Killman-order to escape from it I travel- Masindi and the lake, and in the same night after a 255 miles' ride jaro range and of all Africa. The led as fast as the bad road al-turi district in Belgian territory, through what seemed to me "the first glance

than a thousand was disappointing. {lowed; until I crossed into The next day embarked on the valley of more The summit (19.710 ft.) in round Uganda.

hills." the lake to Without transition the steamér and crossed and the slope

From Feradje to road became perfect, a road only Karenyi. I could have taken a

Buta (470

But by the time I reached Moshi speedway. Snow only appears at 14,000 feet. 10 feet wide, but as smooth as a shorter route by salling to Rhino miles) I drove through a country like the tropical the ntountain was literally tower-

Camp on the Nile and stepping which jooks ing above the countryside.

The country was enchantingly on the "Route Royale," which Africa of one's imagination: palms. green and thickly populated. I cuts the Northern Congo from banana groves, clusters of giant Every year half a dozen people caught a glimpse of Lake Victoria-east to west, but I wanted to see bamboos, and natives wearing the make the ascent, It is an easy Nyanzn as I watched the numbers the Kilo and Moto gold mines.

cheapest garment in the world: a few blades of the long grass. fusk," provided one's blood pres- rapidly decreasing on the civilis-I would rejoin the royal road at

Most women and children carrièd sure la not a high one. Camping ed-looking milestones. I traversed Feradje.

baskets full of snow-white cotton. gear can be hired locally; the ex- Jinja, and few hundred yards After a stiff climb I found my pedition takes about six days, and further I stopped on the bank of self on the plateau once more, and

Every 40 or 60 miles I came is not onerous,

a river, the Nile, and I felt a said a final good-bye to the Rift upon a mighty tributary of the All this unnecessary waste of money can easily rain, and I had to drive most of further north on its blue surface. the day I drove up and down and

When I left Moshi it started to great longing to glide 3,000 miles Valley. For the remainder of Congo River, and was taken acros3 he avoided, and is being avoided by thousands yes, the way to Longido, on the Kenya I crossed the river in a farge round endless hills. I counted as

on a ferry. But that irritating thousands of motor car owners, simply through the use border, in the high grass, as the native canoe, and a

contraption was always moored of the correct grade of Gangoyle Mobiloff — the motor-track itself was much too slip hours later I

couple of many as 127 sharp bends In the was in Kampala course car engine lubricating oil recognised by over six ·

of 30 miles. The trees I forded a pery.: hundred motor-car engine manufacturers as by far the bridge having collapsed, and I actual seat of the Government.

stream, the and 20 miles from Entebbe,. the became bigger and taller, the most economical and efficient of all the lubricants re- was glad that my magneto was

light softer and 'the air was ́fill- commended for motor-car engine lubrication.

Kampala is built on seven hills, ed with the odour of decayed high up. While crossing à vast like the Eternal City. The palace vegetation. I was entering a new plain. I came upon the body of a of the Kabaka or King of Uganda world-the equatorial forest. zebra, shot recently and alrendy on one hill; the Government I stopped at Mongbwalu (which aurrounded by no fewer than 150 hospital on another; the Catholic means the white man's grave) vultures!

mission and its magnificent cathe and was put up by a Belgian en- dral on a third; and the C.M.S.gineer in charge of mining opera- medical mission on a fourth.. Dr. tions in this important sector of Albert Cooke, C.M.G., a business the Kilo mines. He showed me like, austere figure in Khaki, is the gold-bearing quartz. contain- the founder of the last-named. ing 20 grs. a ton, and casually Thirty-three years ago he arrived pointed towards 18 heads of

What's the result -- engine trouble and frequent trips to the repairman. As rarely is the lubricating oil blamed, repairs become more and more frequent, and finally the engine goes in for a general overhaul.

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At Longido an emaciated indian official asked me to step into his little office. I spotted some booka which did not look like Customs regulations; Max Nordau, in Ger- nan; Cardinal Mercier, in French; and other works which showed that their owner was a cultured man. He certainly deserved a better fate than collecting Cus- toms dues from the few travellers crossing the Keaya-Tanganyika border. Early the next day I left for Nairobi (136 miles), and crossed, the game reserve - which is the chief attraction of East Africa. For 30 miles through elephant country. The trees were broken, the bushes crushed, the grass trampled on. Six miles from the town I camo upon an asphalt road for the first time since leaving Pretoria.

Dismal Rains.

I

went

in Uganda; to-day he manages a buffalo hung round the stoop of large native hospital dominated his bungalow. The beasts were by a monumental cathedral. Mrs. all killed in the neighbourhood. Cooke has founded a maternity The next day was a Monday, home, and all over the country a fortunately for me. Eighteen number of small branches,-run by miles from Mongbwalu I gazed native girls trained as midwives. en a large board and read the When I saw Mrs. Cooke she was following puzzling notice (in checking the washing, but this French,, of course): homely occupation did not belittle the

impression of tremendous spiritual power which she convey- ed. She spoke with fervour, and sometimes seemed inspired.. "This maternity home," she said, "le the seed of the whole' work," One evening I met a British woman who had travelled through Africa and had been commissioned to write a book about her trip. Be

Two days after my arrival the short rains came down in earn- est, and for several weeks I reating very well connected at home, dismal R.EA.A.A. reports which she had been carefully dispatched stated that the roads up-country by one Governor to the next, and were impassable. I did not mind besides garden parties and official a bit. I had fallen in love with dinners, she had seen very little. Nairobi and I had plenty of time When I mentioned Lake Tongan- to indulge my лет passion, yks ahe interrupted me with: "I Nairobi is a town of contrasts. did see a lake, Mr. Kraft. What It is near the Equator," but tem is the name of that large lake perate, thanks to its altitude. near Livingstone?" meaning thel Smart shop-windows but half-nak- mighty Zamberl River! ed Masai warriors, lance in hand.

Drum Talking. gazing at the thousand objecta Indispensable to the white over-

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In Kampala I saw some elabor. ate artistic specimens of the drums which are used all through

In the hotels, luxurious in the | Africa to convey Rewa, to Саре Town sense, cabaret stimulate gangs of labourers and dances are given every night, to give rhythm to the dances. In but a few miles from the Cer- tropical Africa, the booming of berus, who denies admission to the drum jis inseparable from the those who are not in evening other noises of the night. Even dress, a pride of 14 lions are tually I ceased to take notice and stalking zebra, and kongoni. in me grew an obscure notion Nairobi is a European city, but that this dull staccato launed a mosque dominates it, and is un- from the Inaccessible heart of. doubtedly the finest edince in, the Africa itself. town. Everybody wears helmets or double-terafs, but a drive and climb bring the skating flend to

Signalling with the drums is not done by means of a pre arranged code like Morse, but by

a frozen lake on the slope of drumming the actual words. It

The Bagandasor natives of Uganda are an intelligent race, more spiritually inclined than the natives of Kenya. They have a number of beautiful sayings as, The soul has no white hair end "The land I acquired by means of tombs, meaning by this that the soll belongs to the des candante of those burled in It

Mount Kenya, where he can is drum-talking In the literal meditate on the French proverb: Bense. "The more it changes the more It is the same, yang On February 3 1 left Nairob!, and 30 milea from town descend ed into the Rift Valley enco-more and drove to Nakuru, passed Mount Longonot, where Ngat, the Kikuyu god. is supposed to dwell in solitary retirement Lake Naivasha, believed at one time to be bettoraless, and Lake Elemen- While driving towards Lake telta, where all the flamingoes of Albert, I had an exciting encount the planet seem to hold a coner with a mamba.saw a long tinuous congreg

black cable stretched across the Lord Delamere, the uncrowned smooth but narrow path; and King of Kenys, had a fire estate realised that if I applied my in the neighbourhood,

brakes I would stop right on top

OVER

at the opposite bank, and I had to wait in the sweltering heal until it was slowly rowed across the river. Some natives. had

A cone-shaped heads. rope le tightly wound round the soft skull of the infant and stays there until the bones retain the desired shape.

which boasts of two inns and goes Buta is a busy Hittle place

one better than Arusha by being (or pretending to be) the centro of Africa. At. the cross streets, a large pillar, bearing a dozen sign- boards, informs the wanderer how far it is to Cape Town, Cairo, Mombasa, Dakar, etc.

The cathedral of the Catholic mission of the "Peres Redemp tiates" is gorgeous edifice. All the, interior fittings are made of ebony and ivory. At the mission itself, ordinary coat-racks are (Continued on Page 11.)

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