INTO THE BLUE 5 



we gathered our nearly two hundred porters and 

 concentrated our mass of equipment. We had 

 everything from sugar and pills to film, including 

 big water tanks, hardware, flour, clothing, and a 

 wide variety of other articles calculated to keep us 

 independent for many months. 



When we left for Lake Paradise, which is close 

 to the Abyssinian border and nearly five hundred 

 miles due north, we ran into the rainy season. Our 

 six motor cars were loaded to their guards. We 

 made a brave effort to elude the rain by going on a 

 short cut up to the northeast. But the elements beat 

 us to it. Less than half way along an incredible 

 series of morasses as well as vicious rocky trails 

 forced us to turn back and try the older and longer 

 route to the north. 



We left Nairobi at noon February 21st. On April 

 12th, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after innumerable 

 hardships and adventures both with storms and wild 

 beasts of every description we broke through the 

 virgin forest and there was Lake Paradise right in 

 front of us. 



Osa was so happy that she cried. 



Thick jimgle closes it in. The lake lies in the 

 crater of a dead volcano. At the moment of our 

 arrival the sun glimmered on its blue surface. 

 Thousands of birds twittered and called from the tree- 

 tops around us as we rested from our toil. Down 



