Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-11
BY ALONZO W. POND.

Leader of Logan Sahara Expedition OF
| Beloit College.
| IN SALAH. Algeria December l (By
| French military communications and
| telegraph to Paris, thence by cable).-
| The Logan Sahara expedition of Be-
| lott College set out today on its
archaeological exploration of the great
and unknown Sahara Desert. Before
us lies a long and arduous journey of
a thousand miles with Camels as our
| beasts of burden.
But the outcome of our explorations.
which are not 50 much geographical
as prehistorical and archaeological
Will, if our hopes are realized, throw
| new light on the past history of man.
| Buried beneath the sands and
| guarded by the inaccessibility of the
desert. there are evidences that pre-
| historic man once inhabite this re.
gion.
What sort of human beings were
| they? What is their relation to mod
ern man and the natives of present
| day northern Afric? Flow did they
| Gro Magnon men who once roamed
Europe, as evidenced by their skeletal
| remains?
With me is NJ Maurice Reyga sse,
governor of TebesSa. Algeria, who is
| known for his archaeological and
| chronological exploration of northern
Africa and who possesses great
knowledge of the region that we shall
| traverse, since he journeyed through
| it in 1922.
Protection Provided.
For our protection the French gov
| eminent has provided a small de-
| tachment of native soldiers who are
| mounted on swift desert camels. Much
! of the territory that we shall explore
| is known to be unsafe for travellers
al times, and in fact in several cases
we shall be unable to take the exact
route we had hoped because of hos
| tile natives.
| We are travelling as lightly as pos
sible in a region which affords the
| traveller little or no help. Our supply
| caravan left three days ago in order
| that it may make the first leg of the
| Journey with more leisure and ease.
| We are well equipped for our eN-
ploratory work and through the use
| of ample digging tools and with cam
| eras to record our discoveries we
expect to eXcavate successfully the
new prehistoric sites we shall find.
From the town of In Salah, located
in the Tidikelt region of the Algerian
Territoire des Oasis, some 500 miles
south of the Mediterranean Sea as the
to Aoulef Cheurf From there we
shall go to Taourirt. at which point
we shall change our course and go
northwest to Adrar.
During this part of our journey we
shall be out of touch with civilization
and not until about December IS,
when we are scheduled to reach Adr&r,
shall we be able to report our further
progress.
Route Is Outlined.
We had intended going directly from
Adrar to Charouin, but this direct
route is impossible because of hostility
of the natives. We therefore plan to
go from Adrar to Brinken, then to
Ouled Mahoud and thence to Timi-
noun. From Timinoun we shall make
side trip to visit Charouin to study
a station or archaeological site of old
neolithic culture that is known to be
there. Returning to Timinoun, we
shall travel northwest across the
Grand Erg Occidental to Bent Ounif
and then to Ain Sefra, where our
| journey will be practically at an end.
NJ. Reygasse reports that the region
around Aoulef Cheurf. our first OBJ
| jective, is known to have ancient pale
| olithic Mousterian and neolithic sites.
| From the highlands known as the
Grand Erg Occidental, French officers
| bring back reports of finding evidence
| of neolithic cultures.
| The material we collect and the
studies we make may show the rela
| ton of the prehistoric cultures of the
| Sahara and those of the Mediterra
| mean coast and Europe. We shall
| make special efforts to find faunal
or animal remains that will identify
the exact geological eras or epochs in
| which the prehistoric cultures flour
| ished.
Copyright. 1880