ACROSS THE VAST SAHARA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21989, 26 June 1933, Page 10

ACROSS THE VAST SAHARA

WOMAN’S DESERT TRIP ’

OVER TEN THOUSAND MILES

Accompanied only by her maid, a guide, and two chauffeurs, a frail-looking, whitehaired woman recently completed an adventurous trip of more than 10.000 miles across the Sahara Desert. She is Mrs n. Brodie. of Tnlddoxhill, Fromo In the course of her trip Mrs Brodie traversed hundreds of miles of country where no white woman had ever been seen before. Armed guards had to be placed round the camp at nights to ■w atch for attacking tribesmen An offer was made by a negro chief to buy Mrs Brodies maid, Miss Edna Vince. _ The expedition, made in two motor cars, started from Biskra last November. For hundreds of miles we were-alone in the Sahara,” says Mrs Brodie. “At one place in tlie south we had the greatest difficulty in persuading the commander of the district to allow ns to go on. “We were told that there was considerable danger because of the Tpuaregs, a fierce native tribe. We went on, however, and for four nights our men kept guard while we slept. They all carried revolvers, but, fortunately, were not called upon to use them.” , .... Mrs Brodie is already planning her next trip. “ I know I shall not be able to stay at home,” she said.