EXPLORERS RETURN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 8

EXPLORERS RETURN

GIVEN UP FOR LOST ADVENTURES IN AFRICA (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, April 19. Seven months after they had been reported killed by robbers in the heart of the Sahara and a French came; corps had in: ’n a fruitless search, the British explorers, T. A. Glover and his wife, have returned to Faya, having penetrated IUOO 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 in Faya in September last, from which,

mounted on camels, they set out in the direction of the Fibesti mountains, entailing a 16 days’ trek across the i waterless Sahara. Glover now says that his was the first expedition to reach the summit of Emikoussi and descend the crater. Every previous expedition failed owing to bands of robbers lurking in the foothills. The natives, who were rabid Senussi, gave endless trouble and

caused the gravest anxiety. Two days after Koussi the robbers entered the camp, but were driven off. French searchers afterwards heard that th c party was killed. Altogether the party secured a collection of 500 birds ami mammals, also specimens of fish from the Logone River.