NO BANG, NO SUPPER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 136, 15 July 1914, Page 10

NO BANG, NO SUPPER.

"No bangj no supper," i 3 a saying in Central Africa, according to Mr Dan Crawford, F.R.G.S., the famous explorer, author and linguist, who can speak or write in thirteen languages, and will visit 'Christchurch, arriving - on Saturday morning. His Wo.ship the Mayor will give him a public welcome in the Council Chambers at 11 o'clock, and he will speak, at 8 o'clock in the Choral Hall on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday nights. He relates how on the first night of his "honeymoon," after being married at the British Consulate a£ Blantyrc, he had, on the trail, to provide the wedding breakfast for his bride and himself, with his gun. This took the form of cutlets of antelope. In Central Africa a man is his own butcher and his own builder also. Mr Crawford's bungalow in Luanza, 250 miles from the place where Livingstone died, lias mud walls and a thatched roof, and has not a nail in it from door to rooftree. He does not believe in making the Mission Station a little slice of England, and lias found by experience that an African manner of life and diet is necessary if Europeans want to live healthily in the African interior.