The Church Room has never been #0 crowded asit wason Tuesday, when Captain Boisragon gave a most intarasting lecture on his experiences in West Africa, By the time the lecture was to start nearly all the sents wore occupied and a few minutes later there was only standing room left, and still people continued pour in, "The lecturer enthralled his audience from. stert to finish and no one who heard his lecture could deny that truth, at any rate in this case, is stranger than fiction. Captain Boisragon, with eight other Englishmen and 250 carriers, went on a porcoful expedition towards Benin. The King had been giving trouble, and as under instructions from the Foreign Office every peaceful means possible was to be tried to bring him round, the expedition wont unarmed and without escort. The details of the massacre uro. fairly ° well known, but few people have had the opportunity of hearing of the terrible suffering the two English survivors went through in such graphic details as Captain Boisragon gave last night. For five days he and his companion were trudging through without food, and with nothing yw drops of dew every morning to 40 make it worse, Mr. Lock was suffering from three of four bullet wounds and the lecturer had a bad wound in his arm.
The slides with which the lecture was illustrated were good, but were too small to be.seen clearly from the back of the room.
At the conclusion, Mr. D. Landale moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer, which, needless to say was carried with thunderous applause.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.