CROSSING AFRICA AFOOT
WOMAN'S VENTURESOME JOURNEY.
('Tim«a- Sydney "Sun" Special Cable.) (Received November 29th, 5.6 p _n.) CAPE TOWN, November 28. Miss Gertrude Benham crossed Africa afoot, starting at Forcados, at tho mouth of the Niger, in Ootober, passing Lake Nyanza, and finishing at Domba. • ■ ' Her companions were a oook boy and seven porter.. She was absolutely, unarmed, but except for a few worries with porters, she experienced no annoyance of any sort, and remained freo from fever.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14837, 1 December 1913, Page 7
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