AFRICAN ODYSSEY By W. Robert Foran
African Odysse; (Hutchinson, t8s.) is a biography of Commander Verney Lovett-Cartkon, the . African explorer.
His fame has been overshadowed by that of his great contemporaries, but this rather dull formal life may perhaps help to restore his memory and establish him
in his rightful place in the history of.
African exploration.. When he started his three-years journey from the East - coast his intention was to join Living- -- stone. Two of his three companions, Moffat and Dr. Dillon, died on the way. At Tabora he met the cortege of Living- stone. His remaining companion re- turned with it to the coast, and Lovett-
-Cameron Weht on alone to Ujiji to secure Livingstone's papers. Then he con- tinued West, explored the Southern end of Lake Tanganyika and discovered its outflow, and struggled, nearly dead from starvation and fever, through Portuguese West Africa to the coast at Benguella. He thus accomplished, the first East to
- - West crossing of Africa by a white man-- a heroic and valuable contribution to the opening-up of the continent.
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