WHERE ROMANCE COMES IN.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 17

WHERE ROMANCE COMES IN.

Trader Horn and -Mr. Rice Burroughs havo familiarised us with the theme of, "Congo Jake," even to the heroine, whom the author eventually marries "in tho nativo way," and the treasure- chest, "a shabby trunk," containing gold ore, pearls, uncut diamonds, ornaments of gold and ivory. The finding of both wife and troasuro are incidents in a long and adventurous life ranging from the Congo to Brazil. Some who know Africa may ponder Captiously the news that "lemons grow in profusion all over the Congo"; that elephants are almost blind; that the wild ''canker-dog," if hungry, would attack man; but we may concede ono hitherto unaccorded virtue to the African buffalo, that, "unlike most wild animals, he will not eat man." . Again, it will interest many old hunters to learn that "the safest place to sleep when there are lions about is Setween two natives." Most of them would prefer the propinquity of the lions! The account of. a. gorilla hunt is sensational.^ Tho white hunters, naked, but painted black, adventuring into the "jungle"'and in that condition "surrounding" ten gorillas, at night, their only equipment being small oil lamps, nets, handcuffs, and a steel "double cage," which was lost in the ensuing bouleversement —it must have been a weird and awesome scene.