YEAR IN AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 213, 5 June 1931, Page 4

YEAR IN AFRICA

I ' Husband and Wife’s Plans Two tons of tinned goods—ship’s biscuits, bully beef, salmon, sardines, and ilour —were included in the buggage of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Glover, the famous explorers, when they left Englund recently for a year's trip across Africa from the West to the East Coast. "I'm glad to-day has arrived, for the past few months have been very tiring," Mrs, Glover told a "Sunday Chronicle" representative. "To go shopping for a year’s supplies, most of the l goods to bo tinned, is no joke, and I’m looking forward to « long rest on the ship before we start out from Senegal,’’ Mr. Glover is a man of great physique, who speaks very little except about his wife. Then he is voluble about her courage.

■’Once,” he said, “she shot a leopard. It dropped at the first shot, and she went up to liavo a look at it. As soon aS she was within reach the leopard stuck his claws into heir leg, and his teeth into her ankle. She carries the marks of the wound to this day. “But she had the sense and the courage not to try to pull herself away from the leopard. That would almost certainly have meant her death. Instead, she shouldered her gun, and completed the work of her first bullet,”

HE RECOMMENDED PULMONAS. I She came to him with streaming "•yes. Iler head ached, her throat was on fire. Sho coughed and sneezed incessantly. “What have you got for a cold?” she said. "Here you are,” he returned, pulling out a tin of Pulmonas, “I’ve tried these myself, and know there’s nothing > better.” Pulmonas 1/6 and 2/6 everywhere.—Adv t.