AFRICAN ADVENTURES.
(Received October 17, 0.27 a.m.) LONDON, October 16. Major H. H. Austin, D. 5.0., Commander of the Abyssinian Jubilee Survey Ex. pedition, which commenced work at the end of last year, has returned to Eng., land. He 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 around Lake Rudolph, northeast of Uganda.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4489, 17 October 1901, Page 5
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