WOMAN EXPLORER

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17805, 2 September 1929, Page 2

WOMAN EXPLORER

GOING INTO WILDS ALONE. (From a Correspondent.) BERLIN, June 20. Frau Gulla Pfeffer, who says she is the only white .woman who has ! ventured among trines of South Africa j started this week on another expendi- | tion into the Dark Continent. This time she Is headed for the country where Sudanese nomads live and where she says no white woman, in fact, no European, ever has intruded. Frau Pfeffer left Rotterdam on Wednesday on the small steamer Irmgard which, after calling at numerous ports, will land the adventurous German woman on the Gold Coast in six weeks. She is accompanied by a movie operator wno, however, will not go with her into the interior. “It is high time I explored this region,” said Frau Pfeffer, whose trip is sponsored by the International Institute of African Languages and Culture of London. “Soon modern.civilisation will invade this section of the world and it will no longer be possible to obtain first-hand knowledge of how these nomad tribes, untouched by Western culture, really live. “ I expect to live with them, be one of them and be assigned to one of their tents.” At the end of two years Frau Pfeffer expects to bring out of Africa implements and articles of daily use, works of nomad art, primitive jewelry and musical instruments, as well as other curios, from tribes never before visited by scientific explorers. “ My previous trip to Nigeria netted priceless examples of cannibal handicraft which arc becoming more and more scarce as modern machinemade products penetrate even these remote corners of the world," said the explorer. “My Sudanese expedition should ao less productive."