AN AFRICAN SURVEY EXPEDITION.
TERRIBLE PRIVATIONS,
ENCOUNTER WITH A RACE OF
GIANTS
By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright.
(Received October 17, 0.27 a.in.)
London, October 16. Major Austin, D.5.0., commander of the Anglo-Egyptian-Abyssinian Jubilee survey expedition, which commenced work last year, has returned to England. They encountered terrible privations, 75 per cent, of the members of the expedition succumbing. Thirty died of exhaustion during a month's hostilities with the Turkhanas, a race of naked giants occupying the country round Lake Rudolph,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11787, 17 October 1901, Page 5
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AN AFRICAN SURVEY EXPEDITION.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11787, 17 October 1901, Page 5
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