OUT OF THE SAHARA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20389, 21 April 1928, Page 13

OUT OF THE SAHARA

LOST EXPLORERS RETURN. TROUBLE WITH NATIVES. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) . LONDON, April ID. Seven months after they had been reported killed by robbers in the heart of the Sahara, and after the French Camel Corps had made a fruitless search, the British explorers, Mr T. A. Glover and his wife, returned to Faya, having penetrated 1000 miles beyond any point hitherto reached by a white woman. They started in December, 1926, to search for fauna on behalf of the British Museum, and were reported at Faya in September last, from which, mounted on camels, they set out in the direction of the Tibesti Mountains, entailing a six-teen-days’ trek across the waterless Sahara. ~ Mr Glover now says that his first expedition to reach the summit of Emikoussi and descend the crater failed owing to bands of robbers lurking in the foothills. The natives, who were rabid Sennssi, gave endless trouble, and caused the gravest anxiety. Two days from Koussi robbers entered the camp, but were driven off. French searchers afterwards heard that the party was killed. , ~ Altogether, the narty secured a collection of 500 birds and mammals, and specimens of fish from the Logone River. —United Service.