1949-10-08 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1949.

Most fantastic

holiday year

In London last week two girls finished a most remarkable holiday.

PAULINE MANDER, aged 22,

daughter of an Industrialist, and BRIDGET ASSIETON, also 22, Sea-hree of the Hon. Ralph Auheton, M.P., decided in April that they would hitch-hike through

by

Africa. They had no plane

and they did not know the

rdute

'It took th m, four months, through desert, jungle, volcanle mountains, and tropical loveliness, through the Afries of the European and the Africa of the native -9,500 miles to all. Here Is their story.

PAULINE MANDER.

Ωστεί,

of them

19771TH two suitenses shoreline resembling &

and three bundles, and with a magnificent setting

of mountains, Roms ridget and I flew out from Johannesburg on April 15 to our jumping-off point. "Foolish," said our friends, two girls hitch hiking a continent."

be we should They sold stranded in the Congo. At best, We should be b..ck

fortnight. At the waist, we nkit be swallowed up and never heard of again.

into the plane we hamped

two 1wo topeen to hatbor, mosquito nets and one thackin-

tosh.

We dispensed with smart dresses and retained only 110

or three cotton frockt. "for jungle occasions,"

For the catne reason we ench clung to ung

of nylon, powiter, pstick, and a pair evelash curlega.

25 MEN TO ONE WOMAN HERE

..f

WE CAUSED a pensa- tion when we landed at

Salisbury. Rhodesia. There are 20 men to one woman In this town

We spent six days touring the rquntry free. We saw a lot of tobacco.

Major Iloy Farran and Colonel Western David Stirling, the

Desert wor heroes, met un. They have started

Rhodesia.

One of their enterprises

Д new

Life

In

less strenuous Central the African News Review to pro- . inole a United States of Africa. Bridget and I promised to send contributions.

We reached Victorin Falls by train, second class. The room at the B.O.A.C. hotel cost us 30s, a on two is hard night, which tramps. We saw the falls by moonlight, and got wet through In the forest of rain."

Next day a small boat took us down the Zambeal. Now we prepared to mode into the Belgian Congo, bu the very heart of the con- tinent.

The train for Elisabethville, the Congo's niost southerly town, left Victoria Falls ave hours late, the native driver having gone to a dance

And the journey proved to be 38 hours of slow Imore than gong.

PARTY ON EDGE OF THE JUNGLE

active volcanoes, 9,000 feet high. There are no crocodiles; no hippopotam

mosquitoes, Ther It's just like the French Riviera with its sunbathing, water-ski- ing pretty vilins, barp and cafes and

who ride people powerful cars and pilot swonk motor launches.

Yet the Equator is only two or three degrees away and the whites came there only a hundred years ago.

Many moneyed families fled to Kivu from Belgtumn when war rame. Most have continued to prosper out of coffee, quinine, and pyrethrum (used in D.D.T.).

ex-

Noted nong thein is the Marquis Oswald du Charteleer,

Sahara big-game hunter, plorer and reputed to be one of the richest men in the Congo.

11 needed only the glamorous marquis with his fast cars and launches and his seven jungle

this

Victoria

Falis

VULAY

· DURBAN)

The third white person was Mr Temple Perkins, aged 71, Ho sat in a fent peering into the

with valley

his binoculars, waiting to shoot his third buli elephant for the year. The tusks, he told us, were worth

£100 to him,

We left him waiting. When I England a card

got back

10

from Temple

hnd

shot

reached mc Perking. He elephant.

his

Two British petrol salesmen took us an to Fort Porthl where their ear broke down.

Here we were stranded three days at the Mountains of the Moon Hotel-12#,

doy all meals included - whose telegraphic. address "Romance."

*

Pauline Mandaë.

Pigmies parade for the two “white queens" on the jungleˇtrall. between Burembo grd Stanleyvilla

homes to complete our fairy tale.

Du Chasteleer showed us the wonders of the Congo by water, lund, and air.

OUR FRIEND GORED BY A BUFFALO

п

IT IS PLEASANT,

being indeed,

Tho Fawropean In the Congo.

still unspažed natives appear und are pleased to work for the whites

At Klenyl at the northern up of Kivu I saw the first volcanoes

glowing a deep red at night, as IMAGINE OUR

as if to remind us of the savagery tonishment when a re- beyond,

met 18

ception committee

at Ensabethville statlon!

'NO POT LUCK' SAID THE CHIEF

#1

"But, officer, wa've just paid twenty guineas for those seats fo-

a gentleman in Charing Cross-road {"

Tip from a tight-wad

VER a

final cup of coffee the other

"When the Roman candle king

be showed up the following Mon- fore-dawn the head day, Emily steered him to her table, and for the next five days AT KAMPALA, in Cen-waiter at my night club got kept inquiring If there were trai Ugando, we were to talking about the tipping any dainties she could smuggle ntertained to cocktails by the

present-day out of the klichen for him. And Cabaka (or king) of Buganda.

This young. Cambridge- customers compared to the on Friday when he handed her educated chloftein talked English splurgers and show-offs of the quarter, she did everything but give him her phone number, more perfectly than either Jimmy Walker's day.

Bridget or I.

Ав our talk ended the Kabaka drawled in his cul- tured voice: "I'm very sorry I can't ask you to take pot luck at dinner As we ATC only having native food 10- nlokt."

In Kampala we put up this notice In garages and hotels; "Two English girls require ut to Nairobi. Any offers?"

The answer came from an Italian business man working for a British firm: "I have a Rapide. Would you care to fly. with me?"

habits

of

"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 head waiter. "Matter of fact, I heard about

a guy who left thousand- dollar tip not long ago. "Was he a loony 7"

A

result, Mitkins came back

the second Saturday

in

n row and again left

a bill under his water

n

glass-only

it was a buck.

"Judy.

of.

this time

course, had an explanation for "Mr that one, too; Mtkins is very obser- vant, and ho knew all along that Emily

was only being nice because she was after his money.

"But this theory was knocked Into a hamburger skillet a few "No," said the head wait- nights later when Mr Milkins er, "he was a retired busi- walked in and demanded to see

man. Mitkins by the manager.

And that is how the two ness tramps got to Nairobi, 000 name, and he manufactured

When I checked my wallet miles away, for nothing, and in Roman candles until the today, he said, 'I found

safety laws caught up with shortage of $900. It appears

time for a tree lunch.

THE EMPEROR TALKS TO us

him.

"Millionaire?"

WE HITCHHIKED next to. Addis Ababa

An Abyssinian policeman stopped us from taking photo- graphs in the street and told us from the to see the Minister of Propa.

If this had on a freight plane. I had a feeling been the usual trek for tourists there would have been a charge for the bow and arrow. As It

was, we give the pigmies a few cigarettes and they were happy.

was

British territory reached after a hair-raising ride from Butembo to Kich. wamba, by the side of Lake George, in the cab of a fish lorry driven by a black driver.

Immensely proud of his white passengers, the driver stopped to show us off in every village he passed. Each time he stopped he drank a jug of pombl, the nalive beer.

ganda,

The Minister of Propaganda took us 10 see the Emperor. Haile Selassie received us It was the most shartering orucat of all.

We made our way in our coton frocks up the Ionr hall by means of three neep CurYSICS.

We shook hands with the im

pressive, khaki-clad figure and sat down, notebooks in hand.

We were apparently expected

24

that, on account of my near- sightedness, I left a thousand- dollar bill as a tip, thinking it was a single.*

"Judy was

summoned and, when the situation WON CX- began to plained to her, she

back the 'I can't give cry.

money because I spent it for dressts and a silver fox jacket, she said. 'Besides, how was I to know it wam't a tip?

"You'd never guess it way he tipped. He used to dine regularly at a restaurant on East Eighth Street, and on Mondays he'd leave a nickel, on Tuesdays "A tip!' cald Mr a dime, and so on until Fri- Who goes around leaving thou- day, when he'd shoot the sand-dokar tips?"

a whole works and leave quarter for the waitress."

"How come the girls didn't poison him?"

"There was talk of it," said the head waitor. "Any-

"'Diamond Jim left $26,000 manager.

Milkins,

Brady once the tip," said

Either I get my 6000, said 'or i send for the Mitions, police.'

INVITATION

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PHOTOGRAPHERS

Entries aro 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 one entrant, and 'all prints 'submitted will be vlowed 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 hùng.

L. JACKSON,

c/o Waterworks Office, St. George's Building. Hon. Salon Sec.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF HONG KONG.

Refreshing

Drink

Coca-Cola

Lion under mutharity of the Osem-Cola Co.

BY HONG KONG BOTTLENE, Federal Ing. U.KA.

HONGKONG

SOCIETY.

FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

Women's Auxiliary

Appeals to the pubile for articles for a "JUMOLE BALE" to be held on Thursday, November 3rd, from Eight A.M. to B P.M. RE the Public Relations Building, Statue Square, Opposite the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Buliding. Des Voeux Road,

hand

Clothing of any size, colour, Gummer or Winter, new or worn, will be appreciated, Articles such as shoes, stockings underwoor, bags, toys, curlos, odds, and ends, et, are alag solicited

Any little gilt that could be used on a "Whke Elephant Table" whil also be appreciated.

Articles can be delivered to Room 607, Marina House, "'Locking me up won't get c/o Kai 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 pm, to 5:00 p.m. If kins came in one Monday anyhow—* And then sho ex- learing madly along at 70 miles half an hour, but never have and plopped himself down plained her theory about the tip/this address is not convenient for, delivery please call any

Soon our drunken driver was to ask inteligent questions for

An American took us on

an hour. big-game hunt near Mutwanga, This was far more terrifying It happened that the Sabena close to the Mountains of the than any lions or wild elephants Air Line was that

evening Moon.. He shot a buffalo, but we had come close 10. throwing a party to open a

animal made a the wounded guest house in the town. We death charge and gored him fa

had been cxpected 最常 "wo the back of the end.

British girl journalists."

The head of the company attended the party. Women guests were very chile, European walter served caviare, foie gras and endless cocktails.

were

Wo

saved. The drinking and the chatter went on all night and no one desired us to write, a line.

Elisabethville, with its 5,000 white inhabitants, entertained us for five days.

It was an enthralling expert

fiving ence, like

through, a scene in a Wild West film after someone strikes gold.

Buildings were rising with 10 credible speed, there was a great bustle of trade and nearly 10 have everybody appeared money.

But we had not beheld the fluent jewel of the Congo, they fold up, until we had seen Laku

Kivu.

LIVING RIVIERA

freight

LIFE IN AFRICA

WITH only elementary knowledge of first aid and with primitive help, we bc- dasper- Tres to G

A 'PEEPSHOW' FOR THE BLACKS

to our came

on some-

that,

Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, 282, Prince Edward Road,

Telephone No. 20333. HONGKONG.

I been struck so dumb.

she had one of the following ladies who will gladly call for anything I was longing to make conver. at a table which was being to Mr Mitkins, how

sized him up as a sation about the Emperor's Hatle serviced by

man who that you have to offer for the Jumble Sale. a girl named

around tipped sparingly only because he pum.ronian dog, or his beautiru | Emily, who'd been

had no use for people who were KOWLOON. tumure, but speaking through the hash houses for a long after his money; and how she an interpreter put small talk time. Knowing of his tip had knows all the time right out of court.

ho Was D ping habits, Emily decided down underneath, The Emperor

who warm-hearted gentleman AT LAKE GEORGE, in rescue, he asked now we used to wish him off

would tip liberally if he thought him for took the his country, remarked that he body else, and the logical a girl really liked Uganda, we

was a waitress himself. native bus to reach Kichwamba,, was fond of Britain and hoped candidate As the only white travellers we to revisit here,

named Judy, who hadn't bundled with all our Then we made our exit, back been in New York very It became my duty to shave wre round the wound,

six inches luggage into a tiny box com- ing down too long room and

bobbing balf the distance. His long. long and two inches wide, be- partment.

Imperial Majesty bowed cach student fore a medical jungle mission ten miles off attempted. to stitch it with stale catcut.

само

ately injúrdamon.

at A

We stayed with the American.. Bridget driving him many miles until we found doctor 40 miles away.

n

Throughout the trip we became a peepshow for the blacks, who encircled us at cach stop and merely stared.. The fare was 4d, each for the 15-mile journey.

THE THREE LONELY BRITONS

"Tell ya what I'll do, kid,'

time we bobbed, and Bridgel's Emily told her, you're new here, "When she had Anished, knees Wre making ghastly and I want ya to get off to a Mitkins said, 'Young lady, you've

cracki

Nothing that remained of our. hike was, more, than in anti-climax

that

terview.

to

We were spared the indignity

tr.do good start, ru

ya' my been so.ing too many movies for sation up front

that no but his võico boftened as he told man's land of yours near the the manager, 'Never mind. I'l straighten things out with the kitchen"

girl.'

Judy thanked

"AJI this," zaid the head waiter, "happened two years of the Emperor seeing us tako a

ago, and ever since, six nights a lift in freight plane full of

week, Milkins eats at one of AT. KICHWAMBA, a raw hides in order to reach

her, and all Judy's tables and teav.s her a tiny settlement over- Asmara:

flint week took care of Milking dollar tip, but instead of a green- Rift Valley, At Aumara we boarded and the funny part of it washo back, it's a receipt. And at that locking the great

didn't seem to mind his miserly rate, in October 1950. the $900 surely be for our tramping days were tips....

will all be paid back." "That Friday night, when A tun' finish for the story? Milkins hanged her the blg

I said, "would be for the old gint quarter, Judy smiled at him is to dia and, as a final tip, leave. If he were Gregory Peck, and her every buck he had in the the next day Slurday-the.

world." old coot came back to her table

Britons, who must. W& encountered three lone regular passenger plane to Cairo,

ONE OF OUR wildest thrills was to travel the 1.100-mile return Journey from Stanleyville. In the Congo, nioag the same jungle route followed worth a book. by Stanley the explorer.

One was Mr Stephenson, an Wo threaded

the elderly woman who has run the same thick forests attacked by only hotel for many years. I swarms of insects and breathing never learned why she had the same unhealthy, humidity. chosen this remolo spot in which But at least we had a fine sandy to live. Irack to follow.

through

Pigmy elbis came out from tho malogany trees, and danted

SO ON APRIL 20 we in honour of "the two white

"thumbed" alt in a queens."

plane which new 18

nearly 800 miles

the colony..

Midget chiefs

commanded

detpor. Into their banda to play strange music, to 'm'rk our visit, and we

Kivu is '62 miles long, the were presented with a boy, and

highest lake in Africa, with arrow

Mrs Croft-Murray, appar ently, her only other guest, W18 80 years old, and só by wander-lust potseased since her husband, a Guards officer, was killed in the 1914-18 war that she does. not desirò to rejurn to. Brilain.

OVET.

· RUDENESS' OF THE EGYPTIANS

OF CAIRO I only wish

;

to record the intense for meal number ulx And you'll probably write it that rudeness of Egyptian officials when ho left, thero was away" sald my head waltor, "but towards all Britons.

under his the waitresses We were thousand-dollar bill

on East Eighth Street will bet you anything even manhandled by the police, water glass.

in November, After holidaying in Italy and

you want that Switzerland Judy.

"It's exactly like I thought, fö

b 1050, Mr Mitkins will go ck spending time in

the

tr

and Paris, I returned to my water.pombone likes to his custom of tipping a nickel home in Notting Hill Gate a few Mr Milkins for

himself, and on Monday, a dime on Tuesday. days ago.

gives him real acrvice, he doesn' and so forth." -(London, Express Service); care how much ho gives away.".

(London Express Service)

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