SHEIK'S OFFER
WANTED A WIFE LONDON, July 20. .“ We had many adventures, but the most thrilling was tactfully declining the offer of a desert Sheik, who fell in love with our 26-year-old maid, and wanted to buy her for his chief wife.” Mrs Fuller made this statement on her return to London after a motor caravan trip across the Sahara. With her husband, and accompanied by a maid, they drove through French equatorial Africa, ending the trip at Lagos. “The chief was so anxious to marry our maid that he promised to make 15 of his wives her slaves,” said Mrs Fuller. The Fullers have returned home with a small elephant, three antelopes, and two leopards, which they captured for pets. “Although the desert crossing was a refreshing change from London,” Mrs Fuller said, “I am glad to be home again.” s,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21406, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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142SHEIK'S OFFER Otago Daily Times, Issue 21406, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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