Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-09
Disastrous Attempt to Ex- plore Unknown Lands
 in Arabia
HOSTILE NATIVES
 POT SHOT PARTY
Forced to Give Up All Val uables and Flee From
 Torrid Country

LONDON. November s.--News has just reached London of the unfortunate termination of an English exploring ex petition which attempted to penetrate the deserts of Southern Arabia, which are absolutely unknown to white men, and which are known as the Dwelling of the Void" Like all previous expe- ditions, the effort to investigate the mys- terious region ended in failure. The members of the party, headed by Cd w. Bury, fortunately escaped with their lives, but their hardships resulted in adding but little to the knowledge of Arabia. The following account of the adventure is given by the leader:
 The region is absolutely unknown to modern geographers, none of whom has succeeded in penetrating it's mys- teries. We were anxious to reach the buried cities in the interior, although the principal object of the journey was to make natural history collections.
 "When we arrived at the little fish. ing village of Irka we sent our orderly Sareb ashore with letter to the chief, who came out 10 us. Instead of really helping us he was eonspiring with the interior chief of Haura to get our party up country and leave us stranded
 Eventually we got away from Irka with an escort of fifteen men and eight camels. We were both armed and wore turbans, as the people there declare that Christians only wear hats to hide their horns. On the following day the chief of Haura sent messenger with a letter to say that he would not receive us at any price.
 "Our whole caravan stopped, our boxes were dumped in the open desert and we found what shelter we could un- der one tree. We got our camp in state of defense and took it in turns to snatch little sleep. The chief of Haura proved most unfriendly. He would not send Us out food and set a guard over us. Fortunately we had a few biscuits with us, but this was prac. tically all we had for the week that We were stranded in the dsert
 We were absolutely in the power of the Arabs, and to have attempted a show of force would have been fatal. Every now and again the Arabs fired pot shots at us for amusement. but never hit us, although they had struck one tree under which We sat.
 ''A After five anxious days had passed the chief of Haura sent us final let. ter declining to find us an escort and ordering us to leave his country within three hours. The three of us were very weak, having lived mainly on jam and biscuits. and the prospect of a flight of thirty five miles to the coast was not Ia pleasant one. We had. of course. to discard our baggage, for our escort de serted.
 tl tore out few written pages of my diary, We concealed the two chro nometers about our clothes, and with certain amount of ammunition, were prepared to bolt, our intention being to get away in the middle of the night. when our guards would probably be- asleep. We regarded it as almost cer- tain that we should be attacked and murdered before we were able to go far.
 We did not get away that night. and to our surprise on the following morning the local pundit came out from the town to reopen negotiations. The chief now demanded all our money in return for which he would provide us with an escort and cames.
 Keeping only d few dollars we hand ed over the money, and in the evening twenty seven eamels arrived. Some shots were fired at us at intervals but ma d I our canes we started on our return to the coast.
 1.-The journey was terribly hot and we were very weak, but we had to make forced marches, and only snatched three hours sleep. We were absolutely done up when we eventually reached the coast at our original starting place. A dhow put in and in two days took us to