The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-11-05
UNFORTUNATE END o. ENG
lISH ExPlORlN PAaTN

LIsH EXPLORING PARTY.
London, Nov. 5.-Nevs has Just
reached London of the unfortunate
termination of an English exploring
expedition which attemp ed to 1,ene-
trate the deserts of Sout aern Arabia.
which are absolutely unknown TO all
white men, and w.lich are known as
the Dwelling of the Vo d." Like all
previous expeditions the effort to in
yestigate the mysterious region end
ed in failure. The members of the par
ty. healed by G.. w. Bury. fortunately
escaped with their lives but their
.iardships resulted in adding but lit
tie to the knowledge of Arabia The
following account of the adventure is
given by the leader:
The region is absolutely unknown
10 modern geographers. none of whom
has succeeded in penetrating its
mys cries. We were anxious to reach
the buried cities in the interior al
though the principal object of the
journey was to make natural iytory
collections.
when we arrived off the little fish
ing village of Irka we sent our order
ly Sareb ashore with a letter to the
chief wao came out to us Instead OF
really helping us he was conspiring
with the interior chief of Haura to
stranded
Eventually we got away from lrka
with an escort of fifteen men and
eight ca-nels. We were ibotsl armed
and wore turbans, as the people there
declare that Christians only w ear hats
to hide their horns. On the following
dav the chief of Haursl sent a mes
senger 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 des-
ert. and We found what shelter we
could under one tree. We got our
camp in a state of defense and took
II in turns to snatch a little sleep.
The chief of Haura proved most un-
friendly. He would not send us out
food and set a guard over u.s. For
tunately we had a few biscuits with
us. but this was practically all we
had for the week we were stranded in
the desert
I'VE were absolutely in the power
of the Arabs, and to have attempted
a snow 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 struck
one tree under which we sat.
after five anxious days had pass
ed the chief of Haura sent us a final
letter 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 flight of tnirty-five miles to the
coast was not a pleasant one. We
had, of course. to discard our bag
gage for our escort deserted.
Il tore out few written pages of
my diary we concealed the two chro-
nometers about our clothes, and
with a certain amount of ammunition.
We're prepared to bolt. our intention
| being TO get away in the middle OF
he night. when our guards would
| probably he asleep. We regarded II
| as almost certain that We should be
attacked and murdered before we
We're able to go far
I'VE did not get away that night
and 10 our surprise on the following
| morning the local punvlit came on.
from the town to reopen negotiations.
The chief now demanded all our snon-
| ey. in return for which he would pre-
| vide MS with an escort and ca-nels.
| Keeping only a few dollars W..
| handed over the money, and in the
| evening twenty-seven camels arrived.
/ Some shots were fired at us at inter
| walls but no damage was done Hav-
| ing loaded our camels We started on
| our return to the coast.
| THE Journey was terribly hot and
| We were very weak. burt we had to
make forced marcnes, and only
| match ed three hours sleep. We were
| absolutely done up when we event
| ually reached the coast at our orig
| inal starting place. A dhow put in
and in two days took us to Eden"