Mr. Albert B. Lloyd, a young Englishman who has recently
returned from Torn, the western province of Uganda, has given to a representative of Reuter's Agency a most remark. able account (published in the Times of Monday) of his adventures while traversing the great pigmy forest and among the cannibal tribes along the Arnwhimi. Mr. Lloyd was three weeks in the great forest, in which it is often impossible to read at noon, and the chief risk is that of falling trees, the " deathlike stillness of the forest being continually broken by reports like thunder as these giant trees fell crashing to the ground." The pigmies, who were friendly but very timid, did not visit him until he came to a village in the heart of the forest. None of them exceeded Oft. in height, though they are sturdily built. The men have patriarchal beards, "their eyes are constantly shifting, as in the case of monkeys," and they would not stand still when being photographed. Mr. Lloyd was also greeted with perfect friendliness by the cannibal tribes along the hurl and Arnwhimi, and created an immense sensation in one village by riding his bicycle ; "thousands of men, women, and children turned out, dancing and yelling, to see what they described as a European riding a snake." Perhaps the pleasantest feature in the narrative is the statement that Mr. Lloyd, who was entirely unac. companied by Europeans until he reached the Belgian station of Basoko, met with no difficulty from the natives, and never had to resort to the use of arms.
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