MOONLIGHT RAIDERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18809, 3 December 1932, Page 23 (Supplement)

MOONLIGHT RAIDERS.

TRIBESMEN LIVE ON SNAKES. “ We have successfully completed a 900-miles tour to the west of Uweiat, including Sarra (an oasis) and Teoro. We have been hospitably entertained by Italian patrols and are leaving to-morrow for Fasher. All are well.—Bagnold.” This message (says a London paper) contains the latest nows of the party of eight British officers under Major R. A. Bagnold who loft Cairo in four motor-cars on September 27 to explore the South Libyan desert. The explorers will pass through the foothills of Ennedi. where the mysterious Oilman tribes, the People of the Rocks, live. These tribes arc famous for their audacity as raiders. Sometimes they swoop down from their mountain eyries on camels. , Then, at. midnight, with a full moon at their hacks, they attack the herdsmen of the Penguin tribes. Wit 1 1 camels as loot, the raiders j then swiftly withdraw. •‘They leave; i no tracks." the Sudan Arabs say, “and ; : they are so tough that they can sub- , I sist on snakes." lietnre a raid the Pe,,|dr of the Rucks saei'itieo a earned to a sacred I tree. J