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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 14

Their, worst patch was eighteen miles of 1 .true ks.s hills beyond Khartum covered wit:f great black chunks 0.. non-j vstorie ro.-k. There were 180 degrees j of heat and the framework of the car and its Dunlop tyres were too hot to touch, yet, although the soles of a perfectly sound pair of shoes wore •ipped off the tyres came through without .1 puncture. Indeed, they had only two punctures in the tyres which look them all the way from Cape Town throu.h Africa and'on to London. The rhino oros was the most dangerous of| the wild animals they met and they saw elephants, thousands of monkeys, leopards and buffaloes. AVhen a wild elephant stood in their path they found that it was wise to reverse their ear and pass it backwards lest it should deid • to give chase. Night animals were not enraged by the glare of the iciv'lighls; they just slunk off quietly to the side of the road, looking over their shoulders unafraid. The effect of the expedition has been to stimulate road building throughout Africa and in two years’ time it. is expected that there will be a series of all weather roads from Cape Town right up to IReiaf in the Southern Soudan. From Reiaf north east to Kosti there is a huge swamp, four hundred miles across, which series as a sort of reservoir for the Nile. If, as is suggested, this swamp he drained by canals, a road, in Mi- Millin’s opinion, may be practicable. According to present arrangement the expedition will set. out from lon don in August in an .attempt to reach Cape Town witliin six weeks.