TEN DAYS LOST
A SAHARA ADVENTURE ENGLISHMAN’S STORY OF PRIVATIONS. (A. and N.Z.) LONDON, April 26. To be lost for ten days in the Sahara, with only a mouthful of water each for himself and three native servants, one of whom died of thirst, is among tho experiences of Lieutenant Donald Cameron, of the Nigerian Regiment, who arrived in London from Algeria, which he reached after six months’ march across the Sahara, from Kano, a distance of 2000 miles. He is the first Britisher to traverse part of the journey. Lieutenant Cameron’s 27th birthday occurred during the journey, in a waterless region in which a guide lost his way. Both rations and water were verv scarce, and five out of eleven cameis died, only two days’ water remaining when they reached' an oasis.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19826, 28 April 1927, Page 7
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133TEN DAYS LOST Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19826, 28 April 1927, Page 7
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