Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1930, Page 44

TA)fi SERVICE RUN " LENGTH OF AFRICA Native Drivers skid Autos § Over Huge Snakes to kil Them. Jongest taxi service has| the passe been H"fi';e“’ in Africa. and finally Petersburg and Pretoria,| R It rul m Juba, at the head of v’zmm on the Nile, to Cape Town, of the continent, & dm.lnce of more n 5,000 miles, The Motor Safaris; as it is uued,lchedulu&hsmnnlwdn to, Chil ourney, although road conditions may inish or extend the transit time. Trall Covered in Forty Days. “Africa’s new auto service down the from her copper, nickel, vanadium, tin and radium mines, can and has af- xmmmmw.hmm Elizabethville, which, with lh f.huwn. parks, :l\lbl, a cathedral |\ and a public library, is the capital of | |l a lnlnl.n. lldorldo. Again the driver territory—N" Gol.l tm railroad-] rfi mmmu.:m.dwy em-dhwa.utmuu bellmwprulldm mmnflm lesia. and then Southern Rhodesia lllp by—Liv- ingstone, with lrolley lines and regattas, then Victoria Falls, broader than Ni- agara and twice u hllh Next, Wankie, with its coal mines; Bulawayo, whose|R 8,000 white people will be more than nger has seen since Europe, capital of the Union of South Africa, and Johannesburg, the town that keeps the world -uwlled with new gold. From Broken Hill to Johannesburg is a drive equivalent to motoring from New York icago over country roads. “Two routes are open south of Jo- hannesburg—a long one, 1,500 miles to Durban ‘on the sea, following the coast through Port Elizabeth and Mossel bay; a short, less picturesque route, 1,000 miles ‘eontinent’s backbone uses the wutheml thmugh Kimberley, with its big pits two-thirds of an 8,000-mile Cape-to- Cairo route, which has been pioneered | by a few daring tourists,” says a bulle- tin of the National Geographic Society from its headquarters here. “A young Bouth African ani his wife covered the trail in 40 days, driving the entire dis- tance, except for 1,000 miles of im- passable Sudd morass, through which ver Shease s s tre. "The shinoc ver - eros must) be carefully avoided, be- cause these clumsy; heavy-weight beasts have been known to charge and wreck | himsel automobiles, killing the passengers, Through an Al Fresco Zoo. “African chauffeurs skid their cars over big snakes in their path to be sure of killing the reptilés. In Tanganyika and Kenya the route leads through an outdoor 2oo, vast game preserve plains thronged with thousands of African an- imals—elands, kongoni, antelopes, ze- bras, ostriches, giraffes, hyenas, harte- beest and hgr.dclkus Un-rn_!dt "o{ :&E mobiles, graze peacefully gars run close by their unfenced feed- grounds, ‘ngfltlt and xulll clubs lh(;uld ‘have their e in- the luggage of every motor velu' through Africa—salt to get out of rute, golf clubs to while away stop- overs. Even such a village as merely a jungle crossroads, populated by a handful of whites, has its golf course. The fairways are not as sporty, bowever, as those in Elizabethville, ‘where 600 ant hills, ranging from foot- stool size to young hills, substitute for inkers. '?“ ‘When the wheels spin and sink 1n '.Y'.e muck it is time to call for native help. Naked men, women and children will flock to aid the unfortunate motor- - Kenya Colony. tion of fewer than 4,000, verthel end of Lake Tankanyika—600 wicked miles that constitute the weakest link in the trans-African chain. ‘Once across the border into Belgian du_ for little. dlamonds, and across the serrated ihghlands to Cape Town, hud- dling - below Table Mountain. Good roads, as Africa knows them, bring the trans-African Taxi Safaris, dul!y and mnddy. to its destination with a load of experiences that cannot be dupli- cated on any motor trip in the world.” * D’Annunzio Honors Actress. 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