FOR BACKGROUND.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12536, 30 December 1933, Page 2

FOR BACKGROUND.

A man set out from England recently on a 13,000 miles journey to gather three lobelias, some groundsel, and a few tree-ferns. It will take him four months. Mr Reginald Ackroyd has been sent to Uganda by the Natural History Museum to collect some genuine background for a gorilla exhibit. He is a. lifelong big-game hunter. This is Mr Ackroyd’s first pursuit of flora. He will travel alone from liis headquarters at Kampala, except for native boys. He will climb mountains 12,000 feet high, figlit through tropical forests where, in the season, the rain never ceases, and where light never penetrates the dense, dark branches. Snakes, gorillas, buffalo, perhaps elephants, “rhino,” and hippopotami will be liis companions in the forest. He is armed with a rifle. “I am not at all worried,” Mr Ackroyd said, “except about the business of drying the plants. Immediately I have gathered them boys will carry them down to a lorry, and I shall dry them in such a 'ijay that the museum will be able to restore them to •life’ in England.”