Tree Top Tourists

"Come to South Africa!" the Canadian Pacific Line urges. "See Cape Town, the diamond mines at Johannesburg, Kaffir villages, wild animals in their haunts--"

A party of 30 Britons and U.S. citizens came to South Africa last week on the new and luxurious Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Atholl. They saw Cape Town, traveled inland to the diamond mines, and leaving the railroad, embarked in motor busses for the Kruger National Park game preserve to see the wild animals.

Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity. . . .

Rescue parties found the 30 travelers next morning in the upper branches of several thorn trees, unscratched by lions, safe, inclined to boast of their adventure.