Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — DARING WOMAN EXPLORER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DARING WOMAN EXPLORER.

Boston Club Woman to Penetrate the Wilds of Central Africa. An American woman, Mrs. Emma Shaw Colcleugh of Boston, suited Tuesday from Marseilles, France, for Africa,

where she is to engage in exploration. Her labors are to be carried on in the central portion of the dark continent, where no white woman has ever penetrated. Mrs. Colcleugh it experienced in travel. She explored in Alaska on several occasions and has hud varied ex-

perienres unions the South Seu Islanders. An island in the Mackenzie river is named after her. Mrs. Colcleugh is widely known as a writer and n club woman and did very effective work in Cubn during the months that followed the Spanish war. In Africa Mrs. Colcleugh will lead a caravan inland from Lake Victoria Nynnzn and will penetrate as far as it is possible for her to go.

MRS. COLCLEUGH.