CAPE TO CAIRO WALK

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 33, 23 January 1930, Page 3

CAPE TO CAIRO WALK

ADVENTUROUS, AUSTRALIANS

Occasional hardships, due to heut and. lack of food and water, were endured fc®r two Australians, Messrs Monson and Wilson, who arrived at Cairo recently after walking from the Cape, a distance of 7600 miles in 15i" TiQonths, but their determination overcame all obstacles, says th eCaori correspondent of the "Times."

They left Khartoum on October 21, and cpvered in two months the N 1350 miles to Mairo, via Atbara, Abuhamed, Wady Haifa, Shellal and Luxor. It was the tamest part of the trip.

Only GOO miles of the whole trip was not walked. . .

. The people every where were friendly until when forbidden to traverse Abyssinia, the traveller attempted! to skirt the frontier, where they were blocked by tribesmen massing for a raid, which necessitated a fresh detour.

The natives in many places

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British prestige wus high, royally welcomed and assisted the walkers. The only gap in tin: walking was in the Sudd area, whore swampy full" of floating vegetable matter, necessitated the use of barges and dugouts for 600 miles, until earth was touched near Tohgaland. . ' Monson and Wilson say that ther experiences amply repaid the venture. '.The-scenery, vegetation, people, animals and birds made the expression '' Darkest Africa" a complete misonomer. Monson and Wilson will" go to Australia softer spending a few days in Mairo, says the Cairo correspondent of the ''Observer.1 *1