A FAMOUS EXPLORER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 156, 30 June 1914, Page 8

A FAMOUS EXPLORER.

DEATH OF MR. F. S. ARNOT.

HIS WORK IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

[BY TELEORAPn.~PKP.SS ASSOCIATION.]

CnßisTCHOTtcn, Monday. isms has boon received In Cliriskhnrch of the death at Johannesburg, on May 15, of Mr. Frederick Stanley Arnot, F.R.G.S., a famous explorer and missionary. It has been said of him that Central Africa owed more to his work than any other man, with (he exception of David Livingstone,

The Into Mr. Arnot spent practically 33 years of his life in Central Africa. He left London on July 19, 1881, and wont out to Natal, whence he travelled through Orange Free State and Transvaal, and traversed Kalahari Desert, finally reaching tho Zambesi River Thence he travelled through practically unknown country from Zambesi to Benguella, a port in the Portuguese territory on the west coast of Africa. This journey occupied from May, 1884, to May, 1885,

From Bongtiella, Mr. Arnot sot out the following month on hie great journey through the wilds of Central Africa, finally reaching Oarenganze in February, 1886. There ho established a mission among the Oarenganze people, with whom ho remained for two years. His return journey to Benguella occupied several months, and he finally roachod tho coast in September, 1888. He returned to England, and in 1889 was made a Fellow jf the Royal Geographical Society. Subsequently Mr. Arnot returned to Africa, and established a chain of mission stations in Central Africa, and it was owing to his efforts that Mr. Dan, Crawford, the noted missionary, was established in North-west Rhodesia, and that tho venerable Coillard was sent out by the French Missionary Society to work ; n the. Barotso Valley. In January last Mr, Arnot set out with two young white men on an exploration tour up the valley of the Kabompo River, one of the great tributaries of the Zambesi. He became seriously ill, and had to be carried back under great | difficulties to Johannesburg, where he died at the age of 55 years.