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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY
#1952.
VENTURE TO THE INERIOR. By Laurens van der Post. Hogarth Prest.
A Date With A Mountain
By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON, tells them that he has no intention
of proposing the final destruction of the.cedars,
Alane with its immenes extent
· DER POST left African past, particularly in
Nyasaland, Dver which the cover la square miles), the stupendota, London Airport one
of Livingstone precipicces, its mealculable, denger- HH Cast of mood-niakes a heavy May morning in 1949. Ife august spirit
ile 14 aware of the impact, No wonder, ik becɛino, « na- relais. had an assignation with a bitter, tragic present of the con, live legend-used by luder. Hoggard mountain in Central Africa. tinent, "the smell of murder in in Children of the Mt. The mountain, sonra into the tile sky." tropical sky in the southern corner of Nyasaland, near the border of Portuguese East Africs. Its name is Mlanje.
Although
had been partly explore. looked at by enthusias lie betentots and colonial officials, not
01
much of practical import- ance was known about it in Lon- don. There waA
evch
reason to
suppose that the story the mans fold uhout it bo 100
should nat relied on
much.
When he arrives in Kenya, aying couth he sees, not simply
community of eccentric exiles, pursuing a dream of English country life, lang vanished from Britain For him they are like the Abyssinians an air-borne Jaky dominated unity.
LAURENS VAN DER POST ....a touch of the fanatic.
In a Whitehall fley, somebody thought that Mlanje ought to bo repected os û potential source of food supplies. Some body else thought of Van der Post as the man for the jeb. It was a choice with a great deat to commend it
'comm.
They live in a
permanent
state
of agitation.
He philoso
effect of natives
phlack ச1
The practical results of Van der Port's journey may rest in some le in the Colonia) Ortice its personal rewards in self-diodavery, in the re-
every of polas and purpose--were rieli.
For the reader there is the trans- misting of African scence, beasts, oglasio dances. Also the portraits of sundry lonely Brilons on whom the content has put her rpell, who give their devotion in return.
Faults and all this Book of the Month is the work of a sirons per- temperament, anality, an ummual
It is a remarkable traveller's inié. The tale of a traveller who will ga back.
CheSNAPSHOT GUILD
A Guide for Synchronised Flash
In synchronised in photo- the
is clia- graphy the flash lamp charged at the precise moment on Europeans; which the camera zhutter is considers the "uཐ! !
uality of open; As a result, this type of crime photography offers a wonderful European
In Kenya," be-way to make action shots in- lleves, as ono
bred tell you what type of flash. lamp best with your particular
doors. Your camera dealer can
born and bred
camera.
in Africa, that cultural traille
As in the case with open flash, between the races is no sue for synchron.ed flash one-sided bus-photography with simple, box- type cameras is determined by. RCSS:
the lamp-to-subject distance. If puta
you've forgotten these figures instin-E
hice they are, once again: her Type of on
Lamp-to-Bubject Distance It becomeg Lamp Normal Films Fast Filma
4-18 presence, an
SM No.
10-17 12-20 No. 11
Africa
a
mark
adopted children. for him a living individual, a personality,
Its landscape is impregnated sometimes with a mysterious Van der Post (aged 44), is a 'cinister but compelling spirit, South Africen who was farm to that the reader understands ing in England before the war why (eg) the natives are re- which took him to Abyssinia luctant to explore the Nylka with Wingate, to adventurous plateau, and why poor Vance, service in the Desert and finally the forester (killed while climb- te Java where (commanding ing Manje with Van der Post) querillas) he walked into and his wife wish to live no- Japoneze ambuch. He is just where in the world but on the the sort of adventurous, intelit- great mountain, gent soldier and agriculturist that Whitehall wanted for the mission to Menje.
*
Vance's death-one false step above a waterfall is, in a cense, the climax of the book. For Van der Post had a pre-
of it, and his
con-
He is, as his book reveals, monition something more a philosophieelence Is haunted by it.after- ent, introspective mon on whom wards. place and people make a deep hapressin. He broods, specu- lates, Henrises, He can be downright pretentious; has a | tcuch of the fanatic, like
Lawrener.
But, from his first page, his altogether booft conveys En special excitement and eager nes, a readliers to And more in the journey than another man might have fund-and to recot it in sharper images. His mission was to him a psycho- logical avent as well as an ex- pedition.
He han acute sense of the African scene the long, blue. elegant Kirk ranges" of Nyasa land. He has a feeling for the
1
Vance was a servant of the trees that grow en Miante and nowhere else la the world. They are called cedars but, in fact, re conifers of an ancient kind, providing the only ant-resisting wood in Africa. Their green 1s a unique green,
"Their seent, night and day, led the air on the mountain; filled it with a heavy, all-perva sive but delicious scent of a lost world." Thrown on the fire, the cedar wood "terally exploded into flame, ensumed itself joy fully and gally.""
Fire had been the ruin of these forest would, Indeed. have been their destit if men like Vanco hed nct come to cave them. Van der pre- Post ransmits the brooding. historie osmhere of the trees-and the relief of the foresters When he
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"WHAT YOU
NEED IS A
GOOD TONIC...
BUILD YOU UP...”
ETC
籍
Pocked with your film is printed sily which gives the guide numbers for the commen types of lamps used by aria- teurs. To use this number merely select your shutter speed table for the and look in the number which appears under the shutter speed for the paril- culer lemp you are using. Then the divide this number by
and distance lamp-10-subject the answer 18 the proper openture for correct exposure.
For example, suppose you're using an SM lamp, You're shoot- in from 10 feel. Your shutter speed is 1/100, The guide mum- ber for 1/100 with your firm and an SM lamp appears in the table as 30. So you divido 80 by 10 ardd get 8. F/8 is your
cameras you will want to figure fire. That's all there is to
3
+10 7 -12 However, with adjustable exposure by the use of the "guide numbers" assigned flash lamps. These numbers vary with lamps of different types and hims of different speeds, and also with the tattú: spécɑ you select to shoot at.
Yet it's easy to use these num- bers and get good, exposure,
THIS DREAM MEANS:
"The "floating park of this droom ไซ the exactly Suma as the and flying sliding dreams
childhood: purely
of
+
plea- sure dream.
Years ago a clever woman wrole
4 book describing
ico
And, if this seems like muca mas, you can tội the same Information from # handy pocket-exposure
puido for Bath photogarty. Like those for outdoor pleture taking, this guide does your figuring for you.
YOU WERE WALKING ON MILES AND MILES OF EGGS OF ALL SIZES
-John van Guilder
how she taught herself to enjoy her dreams by dreaming this type of flying dream. Whenever her dreams became unpleasant, she haniahed their unpleasant part so she wrote by Just lying off into the blue: in her dream, of course. As dreams are Influenced by both the conscious and unecmacious minds, I sup Dose this may be possible: though I've never quite succeeded myself.
Doctors
A British Crossword Puzzle
15
18
22 23
19 20
26
...
27
28
'ACROSS,
1. Concoct (4).
4 Acquires temporarily (7).
8 Allego (4)...
0 Fencing sword (4).
10 Weakening (7).
11 Plunder (4),
12. Lake (4).
14 Ogre (7). 17 Angry (5).
Grown-up (5).
22. Highest (7). 28 Flower (4).
27 Wickedness (4).
ན་
DOWN
2 Disturbst of the pra
редс
(6).
3 Pocket-book (0).
4 Twig zoom (3).
5
28 Flourish of trumpets (7)."
29 Mountains (4).
30' Insect (4).
31 Young hare (7).
92 Objects (4).
Speaker (6).
6 Cords (5).
7 Flitch (5).
12 Fall to hit (4).
.13 File (4),
Journey (4).
16 Веспуя (4).
18 Come out (6).
20 Expand (0),
21 Clear (8).
23 Treatment (5).
24 Weapon (5).
25 Incident (5).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD--Across: 1 Comps, 5 Abate,
8 Mitre, D Strait, 19 Tepid, 11 Remit, 12 Alto, 13 Class, 18 Mallet, 18 Mealle, 20 Sheds, 22 Menu, 21 Utter, 43-Sauce, 20-Nursed 37 1 Cossacks, 2 Maritime, 9 Erred, 28 Deeds, 29 Denser. Down: Emir, 4 Literal, 5 Artide, & Beetle, 7 Trips, 14 Atheists, :15 Shoulder, 16 Masters, 17 Litened, 19 Edtect, 21 Heave, : 21 Rude.
AND THAT YOU 'WERE LYING IN BED AND FLOATING DOWN.. FROM THE SKY THOUGH YOU, NEVER REACHED ANYWHERE
Walking on eggs without breaking them seems to be a varla- tion of the buoyant feeling one gets when soaring.
This dream may also represent the downswing of emotion (falling down from the sky) after a period of clation and 'Joy. If so, don't be disappointed when you touch ground: when you gu-up, naturally, you must come down again:
By KEMP STARRETT
WELL HOWDO WE FEEL THIS
MORNING?
THOSE BIG, HEALTHY-LOOKING DOCTORS WHO MAKE A MAN FEEL AS HE HAD NO RIGHT TO BE ALIVE, ANYWAY.....
* AND SOME ROT
PUNCIL OR IF YOU'D'
PREFER AT STRAIGHT....
THEN THERE ARE THE DOCTORS-WHO REALLY GIVE A PATIENT THE RIGHT MEDICINE ............
YOU OUGHT TO`
·TAKE OFF AT
LEAST FORTY.
POUNDS .... NQW..
"THEN THERE ARE THOSE HAND- SOME YOUNG DOCTORS ( BACHELORS PREFERRED) WHOSE WAITING ROOMS
ARE FULL OF GALS WHO CAN INVENT SYMPTOMS FASTER THAN A POLITICIAN CAN MAKE FAIKY PROMISES.
CHE DOESNT EAT
RIGHT AND HE
SADIZES
•TOO MUCH.
AND. 3 -
·EVER HOTICE HOW CHEERFUL.. THE DOCTOR IS .....WHEN YOU'RE
FEELING YOUR WORST
- COPR-1953, BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORP, TH-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
WELL
BE
SOAE USE "DIE CHLER-
ING, COMIC TOUCH.
•THE ORES WHO DORT BELIEVE
IN TAKING THEIR OWN AEDICINE
AS SOON AS THEY GET YOU GAGGED WITH A THERMOMETER, THEY ASK, YOUR WIFE QUESTIONS...ERDISCHE GIVES ALL THE WRONG, - AUSVERSI
TRYING TO DECINER SOME LA DOCTORS DIRECTIONS, IS LIKE: TRYING TO READ A CHINESE
|| LAUNDRY TICKET, DE
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