‘DEAD’ EXPLORERS RETURN

Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1928, Page 15

‘DEAD’ EXPLORERS RETURN

LONG TREK IN THE SAHARA UNKNOWN COUNTRY VISITED. r TROUBLE WITH NATIVE ROBB.htS. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. A. and N.Z. London, April 19. Seven months after they had been reported killed by robbers in the heart of the Sahara, and the French Camel Corps had made a fruitless search, the British explorers, Mr. T. A. Glover and his wife, have 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 16 days’ trek across the waterless Sahara. Mr. Glover now says that his is the first expedition to reach the summit of Emikoussi and to descend the crater. Every previous expedition had failed owing to the bands of robbers lurking ■in the foothills.

The natives, who were rabid Senussi, gave endless trouble and caused the gravest anxiety. Two days from Koussi robbers entered the camp, but were driven’ off. The French searchers afterwards heard that the party was killed. Altogether the party secured a collection of 500 birds and mammals, also specimens of fish from the Logons River.