SUFFERINGS OF EXPLOREBS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11098, 17 October 1901, Page 5

SUFFERINGS OF EXPLOREBS.

I RETURN OP THE EXPEDITION. United Pt*6» Aaftooiation—By Eleotrie Ttagttfib—Copyright. . (Received October 17th, 12.57 «.m.) LONDON, October 16. Major Austin, 8.5.0., Coxamander of the AnglO'Egypt'itui Abyuaaiin Jubilee Surrey expedition, which oobftattftced work at the end of last year, hae returned t<? Englattd. The expedition encountered terrible privations, aid 76 per cent, of its. member* eoc- . cumbed, thirty dying <A exhaustion dniting 1 a month's facilities with the Turishanae, a racie of nakeA jiants, occupying the <*mn< try round Lake Rudolph. I [The *xp«4k*ott referred to wae ren- ' dwd XKMesstry by the faflttre of the previous expedition, which started Uet wiater under Major Amrtin, for ChawJurman to rarvey the Southern Anglo-Abywinien frontier for the prppoee of subseqnent joint delimitation?. The earlier expedition eventually mftched Lake Bwisgo, coneidetftbly ito the eoath-estet of its te&t deetaiation on Ldw Rodolf, ift * very tfitetwated form. Evidently ekfcnee? vrae reeponsibie for the fact that tEe first expedition bad lofct nwst of its member*. It wae working, mowover, Jα A mow Of less unknown The unfortunat* re&uite attending. both expeditions will doutbtles* delay any negotiations reepeotulg the «o«tbern frontier at Abyesin- : nia and the Soudan for come time,