Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Briskly, and yet with due reverence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy came unto Jerusalem last fortnight. The pilgrimage was made to top off an East African tour which His Royal Highness has just made through Italian Somaliland. Afric suns have burned him to a deep-toned brown...
...Eastman Kodak Co., was pursuing his second leisurely hunt* with camera and gun through the high lands of Uganda and southern Sudan. The scientific importance of his trip lay chiefly in the cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester. N. Y. Those will be trivial gifts to the community which he has already endowed with...
...enterprising South African novelist to whom Mr. Smith "dictated" Trader Horn is a Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis. How large a share of the best-selling royalties goes to her was guessed, last week, from the fact that Mr. Smith reached Manhattan traveling second class on the Olympic and put up at the modest Fifth Avenue Hotel...
...Haiti is a hot island, of listless winds, of low and cloudy mountains. Most of the people who live there are black or brown or yellowish because of their African blood; this was true also some hundred years ago, but then, beside the 500,000 sweating black slaves and the 24,000 effete, lazy, clever yellow freedmen, there were 40,000 whites-French planters, who danced and tippled in the big houses and ruled the island. Some of them often gathered in the billiard room of the Hotel de la Couronne where their scores were marked by a coal black...
...garden in question was located in the thick of African jungles, overlooking a beautiful lake, three weeks by motor from the nearest town, the capital of Kenya. Here dwelt for nearly four years Hunter-Photographer Martin Johnson & wife, a pet monkey, a Boer mechanic, a native maid for Mrs. Johnson, nearly 200 native servants and an incredible number of supplies necessary for the making of good pictures, moving and still. Here meandered, day and night, elephants, "the good natured (until roused) bourgeois of the forest," the always bad-humored rhinos, the stupid hippopotami, dainty Abyssinian bushbucks and their antelope...