Elephant Hunters and Congo Poachers In Africa’s No Man s Land
An eyewitness account from 1909 Uganda details ex-engineer Bennett and other white elephant poachers amid Congo hinterlands. It describes arrests, brutal captivity, survival ordeals, and the lure of ivory across Mahagi and Butiaba, with notes on licenses, risks, and colonial patrols.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Uganda
Central Africa
New York
Albert Nyanza
White Nile
No Man's Land
Lade
Belgian Congo
River Nile
British East Africa
Equatorial
The
Nile
Congo
Butiaba
Kikuyu
Africa
Butfaba
Bennett
Uganda Nile
Nimule
Winston .Churchill
East Africa
Bullaba
Emin Paulin
Stanley
Mahagi
Pearson
Dickinson
Boyes
Knowles
Mahaga
Koba
Ivory
John Boyes
Rupert Craven
Pickering
Ind
Buckley
Karatoma
Bell
England
Zanzibar
Betty Repents Returns to Love in London Tale
Betty, a headstrong young woman from an affluent family, runs off to Paris with Mathilda Davis after defying her parents. In London she confronts loneliness and remorse, finds solace in a church, and is surprised by Tom Hillary who declares his intent to marry her, prompting a cable home to say Betty repents.
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Betty
Paris
Mathilda Davis
Mathilda
Globe
Latin Quarter
Peter Girard
Long Island
Tom Hillary
Parisian
London
Thei Street
Ada
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Cheapside
Mamma
Bow Street
Dick Whittington
Tom
Brown-Haired Pygmies Across Oceanic Peoples
The article notes pygmy groups such as the Andastaanese Semang Aetas and nearby Papuan populations share a brown frizzly hair color. It argues that if dwarf stature correlates with brown hair across pygmies, they may constitute a distinct genetic type within the negro stock, pending further observations.
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Williamson
Malay Peninsula
Philippines
London Athenaeum
Living Fish Net by Oceanica Natives
A description of a fishing method where about 200 islanders gather on the beach and dive in with coca palm branches. They form a half circle offshore, move toward shore as a living net, driving fish toward the beach where they are netted and killed with sticks.
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Oceanica
Norway Turns to Wagner Amid Limited Opera Access
A letter from Christiania notes Norway, long slow to embrace Richard Wagner, has one national theater limiting exposure to his works. It cites scarce opera seasons and a small repertoire at the National in Oslo, with few titles like Lohengrin and Parsifal historically staged, leaving Wagner unfamiliar to most Norwegians.
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Norway
Wagner
Richard Wagner
Christiania
Lobia
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Foran
Kipling
Dorothy Douglas
Associated Literary Press