. The heart of Central Africa; mineral wealth and missionary opportunity. Gilford wasquietly wheeling along when the path made asudden bend around an ant hill and he nearly cameonto a leopard which was preparing to lie downin the path. He dismounted without any unnec-essary delay and at the click of his pedal the hugebeast, without looking to see what the noise was,bounded off at once into the forest. This was hissecond leopard. The first one he had seen while we were atKambove, when word was brought that the na-tives had seen a leopard, and, as one had beenregularly visiting the hen coop, Mr.
. The heart of Central Africa; mineral wealth and missionary opportunity. Gilford wasquietly wheeling along when the path made asudden bend around an ant hill and he nearly cameonto a leopard which was preparing to lie downin the path. He dismounted without any unnec-essary delay and at the click of his pedal the hugebeast, without looking to see what the noise was,bounded off at once into the forest. This was hissecond leopard. The first one he had seen while we were atKambove, when word was brought that the na-tives had seen a leopard, and, as one had beenregularly visiting the hen coop, Mr. Blane de-cided to go after it. Gilford gladly joined himand soon we heard shots. Not long after ourfriend appeared and I called out, Well, who gotthe leopard. With a wry face, he laconicallyreplied, I got the scare, but Blane got theleopard. It seems that while crawling throughsome thick jungle Gilford had put up the leopardnot more than six feet away, and the first intima-tion he had of its presence was a savage the leopard bounded from him to where. n 1 ; W 1 O oc 03 hH ^ I , o ] H w 1 te > ?^?•-•»A;^^p<?»»*~ The Tanganyika Concessions. 115 Mr. Blane and the natives were on the search andall hands opened such a volley that he was soondispatched. June 21st is the shortest day in the year inSouthern Africa. On that morning we againcrossed the Lualaba River, which was no longerto the ankles, but it had become a deep, wideriver with a flow of 74,200 cubic feet of water perminute. This measurement was taken in Augustwhen the river would be lowest. Twelve miles below our point of crossing isthe Nzilo Gorge, in which are several cataracts andfalls, one, the Lukaka Falls, having a sheer dropof one hundred feet. Altogether within a fewmiles the river drops approximately fifteen hundredfeet. This will give not far from 150,000 horse-power. The Lualaba River cuts directly acrossthe copper belt, and these water powers lie be-tween the copper and tin belts in
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