ACROSS AFRICA IN A MOTORBOAT.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 3

ACROSS AFRICA IN A MOTORBOAT.

,- A. . "Reutor'-' '-■tofeg-ram from Berlin, dated 25t3i December;' states that ■ the' German * officer/ Lieutonarit- GrastK, who in ■ 1909 traversed Africa in :a motorcar, and then' ■'■iiiiclortrHik.'to o.ross the oontinsnt in h iJiotar-borvS, ha« sent tlio following tale^r^m -from-. Sa'l?r.nia, in the ■Belgiati'-CoiiKo :—■■■•■' "'' • "By tli-o rirs'-t voyage'along-the'entiro liver course frdm soutoc? to "mouth I have proved the Zambesi, in Northern Rhodesia, to bo the source of the

Congo. ' "This tk-finitoly ostfeblislics the facb that the Congo is tho longest river in Africa. ■' ' "Wo Jiilvo reached tho Kaitanga by motor-boat' from both tho eafit and west coasts, thus*completing the trip acrpss Africa, wliicl) also included an observation .trip thrbuyji tho Now Kamemil.'' '

Lieutenant Gfcaelz concludes by annoTincing his'intention to'organise an Anglo-Gorman-airship expedition lor Mxo exploration of N^w Oiiinca.