WOMEN EXPLORERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1914, Page 4

WOMEN EXPLORERS.

'l'lir> newspapers of late years have contained plenty of stories of 11 1 * 1 oxplnits of woiiK'ii explorers, but of late t ho crop has boon nioro abundant than usual. Almost every Knylish paper ouo takes up contains some

account of pioneer work wliidi hasi made big demands on t’ae pluck and, often on the physical powers of the 1 women whose feats are recorded, i Mrs Fanny B. Workman is one whoj lias met with many adventures on tliej Himalayas, mid another intrepid ex-j plorer is Miss Gertrude Denham, who| recently completed a journey on foot across Africa. She was on her travels; for twelve months, and her fellow-! travellers consisted of only a native cook-hoy and seven porters. She went unarmed the whole time. A high tribute was paid to the intrepidity of these women explorers, and the value of the work which they accomplished, at a dinner held a month i or two ago at the Lyceum Ciuh, Doii-j don, when there were present, among others, Mrs Bulstrode, who has carried out explorations in Mongolia, and Miss Charlotte Cameron, who. has circumnavigated Africa from port to port, and is writing a book of her adventures. “The spirit of enterprise,'’ said Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich at this dinner, “and the devotion to high ideals, are as much alive amongst women as amongst men. Nature made men physically stronger than women, but when we come to endurance, keen power of observation, and especially patience in awaiting results, we must give the palm to women.”