AN AFRICAN TRAVELLER
A courageous traveller came to her journey's end when Miss Gertrude Benham passed on at sea while off the west coast of Africa. Africa knew her well. A quarter of a century ago she crossed it with no companion except the native carriers of her baggage. She hired them as she went along, and her brave, unwearied feet took her unharmed over thousands of miles of forest and jungle and bush. Before that sho had gone as a trial trip in much the same way from the Cape to Kenya. Sho was one of tho first women to reach tho top of Mount Kilimanjaro; in what was then German East Africa, and is now Tanganyika, and sho did the last lap of 4000 feet alone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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128AN AFRICAN TRAVELLER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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