Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-11

daring companions succeed III cfoSaihs
the desert they win accomplish a feat
that has cost many lives. The natives
who live on the border call 1t the ''Des-
ert of the Countless Dead" and the
folk lore of the tribes for miles around
abound in stories OF the weird en-
chantments and awful dangers that
threaten those who venture within the
confines OF the trackless waste. 1t Is
interviewer with their religion, and in
its center is supposed to reside their
boss deity and his court.
SO strong is this feeling that Sir
Claude and his party will not depend
upon the tribes living near the desert
for carriers and guards, but will bring
blacks from the coast to do the work.
The savages living in the immediate vi
entity believe that an excursion into
the desert win bring misfortune to the
family of the transgressor forever art
erward.
GOING PREPARED,
Il do not look for any opposition
on the part of the natives" said Sir
Claude THE district is not very thick
ly populated and the natives are not
very warlike. They prefer TO leave
the white man alone, for they felt the
long arm of Great Britain before How
ever. We are going prepared, you may
be sure, for, you know, 1t Is better Ia
be safe than sorry.
II novelist. out OF a prolific and
unfettered imagination, set out to write
a life OF pure adventure. he could not
crowd the pages of his story more full
OF stirring adventures than have be-
fallen Sir Claude Ever since he was
able to stand and 60 through the man
unl of drill he has been ON q tireless
search for excitement out of the beaten
tracks of the everyday traveller His
sporting memoirs alone have already
filled fat volume.
SOME OF HIS FEATS.
He has crossed the North Sea in 4
balloon. ana thereby captured the gold
medal of the Balloon society: he is the
only white man who has successfully
swum the narrow gut of the First Gaia
ract of the Nile; he has escaped from
the coils OF python, cheated the
sharks at Bermuda for the entertain
ment OF party of friends, ana he has
been lost and found in the swamps OF
Florida.
He has served in the navy and, not
content with five years thus devoted Ia
his country, he served another term IN
the army. He also managed 10 get into
the danger zone as war correspondent
! I'm the expedition up the Nile In 1870
Between fights this pugnacious baronot
| Africa. the Austrian Tyrol and Florida
ON the trail OF big game, Whom the
| South African war broke out he applied
| TO Downing street FOR n billet Red taps
| promised TO keep him In England until
all the FUN was over" as he phrases H.
| Growing impatient at the delay be took
| passage TO South Africa as n free lance
| and although he was more than b8 year,
old, enlisted as a scout
DARING PRINCE.
II Was while serving In this capacity
| that he ran across Prince RadziWill, tht
| intrepid Russian Who so conspicuously
distinguished himself as one OF 1<iich,
ener's scouts, and later az Port Arthur
| I'm the service of his own country, Wher,
he won the Russian Y. G. not only ono,
but twice. a mutual admiration spIanl
up between the two men, and their feat
| accomplished together were the talk o
the entire army Although wounded
no less than seven times, Prince Radzi
will refused to be- invaded home bu
the first rumors Of impending troubl,
between his country ana Japan. 81
| Claude, when Lord Roberts issued hi
now famous manifesto declaring war n
an end brought his eldest son, VII,
was dangerously wounded after twicl
winning the ID. $. o. home TO Englan,
To recuperate.
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.
When a real first class war Is not a
hand Sir Claude does not scruplo abou
using small punitive expedition as IA
excuse for ilghtHg So when the expo
dillon under Mai Pope Hennessy VA
sent out against the Sotics In East Afri
ca the baronct through influence an,