On Monday, 11th June we boarded a Viscount and journeyed to Bulawayo. After the welcome ceremony we prepared ourselves for our visit to the famous Victoria Falls. We boarded the night train to the Falls which were so named after Queen Victoria and discovered by David Livingstone in the middle of the nineteenth century. It was a very warm day and the view was magnificent.

Our return journey was again by night and through the Game country. We arrived back at Bulawayo and prepared for our third match of the Tour against Southern Rhodesia. The temperature was 75 and our performance was not so good as our previous meeting but we emerged winners by 3 clear goals.

We were on the plane again early next morning — destination Johannesburg where we were to board a Pan American Aircraft to Ghana. We were surprised on touch down in Johannesburg to experience a temperature of 40 degrees. We stayed for a couple of hours, had a meal at the Airport and were then on our way to Ghana.

The route surprised us for due to some V.I.P.'s at Nigerian Ministerial level we were on our way back to Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia. There was to be an important conference there and the pilot's route was diverted. On leaving Salisbury our next stop was Leopoldville. We left the plane for what we thought a scheduled 45 minutes. We had difficulty in getting on the plane again, the Airport was guarded and passengers alighting at Leopoldville were searched. As we were in transit we escaped the interrogation. When we eventually reached the plane there was a further hold up while the interior was sprayed as mosquitoes swarmed the aircraft. We ultimately took off 3 hours later.

At 1.30 a.m. we arrived in Accra via Lagos and we were soon to learn that the 10 days arranged for our stay seemed an eternity. I do not intend to dwell on the unfortunate experiences which we encountered in Ghana in this article but suffice to say that the reception left much to be desired. The first notable feature when we reached the Hotel was the size of the lizards we were to live with, at least they would apparently be very much in evidence, these fellows were a foot long, a mass of colours and initially very unpopular with our party but we soon acclimatized ourselves to them and the other forms of tropical creatures.

Our evenings in Ghana were spent in the precincts of the Hotel in the main watching the Ghanian dances and seeing how the other half of the world lives. We were in the rainy season of West Africa - there was little sun but the climate was "sticky," the rain incessant and falling in "buckets,"