Previous to her travels in Afei Mins Garrett was stationed in Chi where she fell into the hands of Wundits, escaped to an opium den airs, assisted by some natives who respected her gray hair, reached the safety of a mission building, All Sense of direction lost, a white woman in the uncertain company of stealing along in a pitch Miss Garrett thinks that this misfortune was' not 50 dreadful na the one that befell her tone night in Nigeria.
From China, Miss Garrett visited Kashmir ard guiled in garden boats on the beautiful lakes of the garden city, Waterfalls dropped from tier to tier of lund gorgeous with colour and through the spray of the falls tone could see, blooming in the wall Yehind, lovely flowers planted by hands long ago still. Travelling the Tength of India, Miss Garrett em= bark at Ceylon and on to Port nonce she proceeded to Cairo and then by rail to. Khartoum, "Kitchener said Khartoum would ult Tike the Union Juek," stated Miss Garrett in an interview with the "Toronto Evening Telegram" "and the town ix nov so planned that it takes that shape. At the intersection of "the roads, in the contre of the eros, stands a mosque."
Passage up the Nile ix exceeding alow, and the at-bottomed boat, with the paddle-whee! three-quarters out in the air at the stern, eravled Unrush the rushes at three miles un hour, Progress was not ex-petited by the five boats containing provisions which had to be purlled along in. front.
One felt like a gourmand with ye. supply of food," said Food cannot te the upper rene fof the river go that we had to carry.
supply for the entire journey, and end about a hundred pigeons turkeys. three sheep ow, herides u boat load of sterilized lights the elephants appeared colossal in size and their hides seemed to be like soft, black velvet.
And then once we caught a erocodile—it stretched fifteen feet from tail to snout. It was wounded. with gunfire and lashing furiously with its tail in the water; the men somehow managed to tie @ rope to it, but ten of them couldn't pull the: creature out. Finally it was drawn out by a hawser.
"We saw natives of course, noble fine looking fellows and their wo-mien who have lovely skin which Keep well oiled. They perforn™ ed a dance in our honour, waving their spears and shouting, jumping. their naked bodies in that was grotesque yet grand, MAC the head of the Nile we went by motor-lorry to Aba, avoiding the tze-tze fly area, then' on to Mom-bassa, where we saw some sunken German warships and other evifdenees of the Great War, through Lake Tanganyika to Northern la, The Victoria Falls are magnificent; they drop 400 feet and stretch fora mile and a quarter, and the roar can be heard 24 miles away. The natives call the Falls "The Sound that Smokes" because of the perpetual mist that hangs about the region. Day and night 1 dream of colour floats about the falls and the wonder, the grandeur of it all permeates ard exalts one to reverent appreciation of the works fof the Creator."
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