PRINCE WALKED 21 MILES IN JUNGLE
AFRICAN CHIEF SURPRISED. LONDON, Jan. 4. “I was much astonished to see how well tho Prince walked,” said a native chief w'ho participated in the Prince of Wales' fccent safari; (hunt) in the Bunyoro Province, East Africa. “I did not believe that the Prince, w'ho is always accustomed to employ motor cars, horses and trains, could, in one day, walk 21 miles through tho jungle and not get tired,” he said. “Ho set out hunting, and, although tho elephants followed, he walked the whole 21 miles. He was returning in the afternoon on foot, wdicn I offered him my bicycle, He asked me, speaking in the Kiswahli language, if the bicycle was a?t right. I replied in Kiswahli: ‘Yes, sir; it is new, and rides all right.’ “The Prince rode the bicycle home. I ordered natives to run alongside and push the Prince if ho required it, but help was not required. I shall keep the bicycle as a souvenir, because it was ridden by the King’s son.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6810, 14 January 1929, Page 8
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