New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1922, Page 14

NEW BRITAIN DAILY III‘II\'.\IAD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922. BAPTIST MINISTER HRILLING TRIP THROUGH JUNGLES OF CONGO VALLEY Oy & o again set sall for Engalnd, leaving its comst of Afrien he hegan preparations | slack fn the chaln while others on | years, 650 per cent of the expedition Rev, W|“]am Ross Was Mlss;onary, Surgeon | passengers hehind on the island, Al .\ 1 A |for his expedifion into the interior. | ropes would pull the steamer ahead. | had dled from fever and other jungle |the provisions the boat could spare ¥ { . f [The only white man with him at the | Credit for handling the mechanical | terrors, | were also left 5 5 time, was George Grentell, an en-| work of the steamer iy due Grenfell, Troplcal Storms. Road Bullder Carpenter Al'ld Afrlcan E\i- Theee Months on Island ! 4 gineer, who dled within a year, who was a member of the Royal Geo- | But there were other perlls that 4 It was o trying time for the band of & X Many months were consumed in | graphical soclety, of London, and |menaced the caravan, Troplcal Inolated passengors, but they might ; wetting ready (o start, It was necessary | Whose reports to that society were | storms were serious things, There plorer—Hardships In Dark Continent—Days /"% iC. i e i iy o ' B et a xcaaition ot sy NronoUNGRd Tare: OOMBISta » AR Wers. 8Os hnAIGl: ORxobaR,Haanasaf on the island, Soldicrs helped find Y B tives, which sometimes numbered as| Stanley's, light except small cotton wicks burned . 500, Provisions had to be Took Steamer, Apart. fir peanut shells, More than once, . them shelter, Mish, gulls' turtles by J fmany as WIthout water ron. Found WIth Fever Bymlnl tropical fruits formed the prinel 5 S, procured. Rifles and ammunition were In this way the boat was taken up | with this meagre glow to give nmu‘ Iple articles of food. The island itself ¥ 3 & needed before starting, Medical sup-| 8ome of the rapids, but finally it be- [ courage, the ||>|onoprn Mnat l’n ”tw“ o |was an extinet voleano and frequent X ¥ 8 slies and means of transportation | came 8o diffieult to navigate that un- [ tents or huts In the midst of a tor- Pl’lest—sent Home By Stal‘lley. :H‘I[m were made |.: the crate Iun;‘.‘ g St 4 :\,.,»,, necessary. der Grenfell's directions the boat was | nado so terrible that words cannot [by the marooned travelers, For three | ¥ Grenfell Proves Valuable, taken apart and carrled by the 800 | describe it, Preceded first by a death- \ : i Here It was that Grenfell proved | atives, each man taking 60 pounds | like silence there would come a sud- to a load. Along the way the mis- | den rush of wind and a downpour of built by him, afterwards became an | $ionary with his men was busy open- | rain which seemed as though the lmpurl:;m figure in the history of | ing roads, building supply stations for | very heavens were opened. , and Is referred to many {imes | Misslonaries to come later, and con- Tslands Uprooted. Thig | Structing bridges over small streams. Trees were uprooted llke so many 2 |months they lived thus, and then one It's a far cry from fighting death, | thing snapped on the propeller, which |day a relief ship sent for them hove | disease and privation in the almost| in turn tore a guping le in the boat, |in sight, | impehatrable jungles of Africa to the K land Was at St. Helena ] pastorate of a quiet Baptist church in “We are s 2, was the terrifled The next stop made by Mr. Ross | i i e a modern New England city, but such |cr: 5 » passengers when the |Wwas at the island of 8t. Helena, where hley his reports, o T R T ey vl PR B e L S i\.lwh i passed Nis last. days, On \ b ] . amall portion’ ot Twhich 50.Por -Cont Die, match sticks. -The great Congo, from Willlam Ross, postor of the First e 3 this 1sland was seen at that time the 3R h Itoss now has in his study, The way was difficult and extreme- | one and one-half to two milles wide at Baptist church in this city. |beginning of the combined efforts of | 3 unique in navigation annals, It |ly perllous. Stanley has said in one | normal times, would rise with the in- R Resieaima mm;m\rod, quiet y oy prrre civilized governments to break up the | L1 . was made in 300 pleces and was car- | of his reports that “So mu were the | creasing rains and rush madly about and unassuming man, with a fund of »ed Kidnapping and selling of ,\vrlr.m‘ A ¥ * § ried on the hv:ulnlor negro burden | trecs that in some places in the day- | with the fury of a watery demon. BNt fusior, ”"!“;l“l\_m‘ bytiose 7 9 De&TORS! ToF 3 T R s | bearers 500 miles inland to Stanley | time they made the forest so dark it [ Roofs were swept from huts and dis- R e e o ol f S R A N ark viis RaIr AT it i : £d | Pool. Before deciding to carry the | created eternal night” The deadly [appeared in the turbulent waters, e R e Il-l belle % P ” M Eaiars Tk hare dumn: DHALR T oBiEs , steamer, an attempt was made to pull | mosquito and the tstse fly were among | Sometimes chunks of earth, so large ferry twinkle in his eye, which A e R 3 i : ~ stream. Great difficulty was en- [a few of the foes to guard against | that they made veritable Islands spac- the implicatlon of age conveyed by his 2 " juiman reight o tie markat. na | e 'red in this undertaking because [ which the little caravan had to be [lous enough to hold a small summer thin white halr and his snowy Van 1t |time wh r.. 3088 Wod onihig island | % Y ¥ | of the dangerous whirlpools, vigilant. Chiggers, a small parasitic | resort, park hotels and all, would be Dyke beard. He is perfectly content i 1 J s Titiah, vessol ateasm. in and | : . Time after time, it was necessary to | inscct, made much troublé, 1In fact, | torn loose from the water's edge and with his flock and his pastorate here 5 |iberate ¢ d ofnegroes talfen frdm | . i i throw long chains from the boat|so much damage did these insects do | carried floating down stream. Whole but sometimes a reminiscent expres % fslave 35 | g f 3 | around trees on the shore to keep the | in causing blood poisoning in the feef | forests disappeared this way. So vio- slon comes over his face and one can [ . ston and Stanley 5 i | | swift current from carrying it back [and toes of thelr victims that Mr. |lent does the river hgcome in one of almost detect the far away ook in his | o e Some time Iater the world was ex- | [#553 g down stream. Then a gang of ne-| Ross on his fourney was forced to oyes. | i o b cited over the fatlure of Henry More- N £ groes would keep busy taking up|perform many amputations. JIn two (Continued on Sixteenth Page). There First as a Boy | 2 b land Stanley to bring back to civiliza- ‘ | When he was but a hoy, two score | K& ? 7 t tion David Livingstone, the mission- | years ago or more, William Ross was | ary who had disappeared into the| residing with his father in Africa. The g [heart of the unknown African country. elder Ross at that time was on a mis- | 4 who had be nt out by ALVARO BONJA LAMPAIO sfon for the British government. Tak- | " rdan Bennet, Jr., owner of [ (Son of Native Savage Converted and ing his son up to the top of Table 2 ew York Herald, to find the lost Clvilized by Rev. Mr. Ross). 5 Mountain the tather said, pointing off | I miss had located his man but e - — — - rv— into the dense wilderness to the north, \ 4 k +had been unable to prevail upon him |evang 10 main stations and “beyond that jungle a friend of mine | ; to return to llurope. nearly 50 sub-stations, with over 3,000 | § , went and never came back.” The i Baptists Active native children in school.” i (ol e friend he referred to was the !nmmm\ ", Other expeditions y being fitted Helped by Moffatt 8 B David Livingstone. The boy did not | . out hy various organizations. The Young 1t 10w the Reverand Wil- realize at that time that some day he | | most active among these was the Bap- 1 Ro: Ithough a young man to would penetrate that self same | W W 4 tist church. Rev. James Stewart, D.|barely out of his 'teens, volunteered to Jungle. REV. WILLIAM ROSS D., M. D, in his book on “Dawn in|go to Africa missionary. David | Necessary to Return (Pastor First Baptist Church, New |the Dark Continent,” in 190 i+ | Moftatt, father-in-law i ol <N SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY But time changes all plans and later Britain). “To the Baptist Missionary Society was instrumental i 2 severs N K he found it necessary to return to = longs the honor of having led the w expenditions and after sui ( i 5 England. He set sail from an Afri- |did not sink, although badly crippled. {in one of the greatest movements, |arations, including ‘o years | . can port on one of the slow travel- | However, it become necessary to make feither in the or in this count medical college, Rev. Mr. Ross de-| il B —_ F R o M —_— ing combination freight and passenger |repairs at once, so the vessel w |the modern mi Yy enterprist (| parted for his second trip to the Dark steamers of that day. But the steam- |grounded at Ascension Island, at that [the Christian church continent. He fortified with many er was fll-fated. They struck a gale|time a military outpost on the seas.| “It's last and greatest effort was in|maps and much information secured which buffetted the boat back and|Temporary repairs were made and the [the Congo valle Y whe, it now h:m!(‘rnm Mr. Moffatt. 2 forth on the waves until finally some- | damaged boat,” with only its crew.!86 Iuropean m ona , 56 na Arriving at Cape Town on the west | i ) his worth, The steamship “Ieace’, v e S A I A e ; : T G- 2 ‘ And remember that these are January Clearance Days e A when the deepest Reductions of the year 3 _ affect evelfyApri_ce m the store - ‘ WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ SUITS at $9.98 : i Values to $40.00 O | ‘ & Final Clearance of ‘ . . 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