ACROSS AFRICA.
COBHAM’S FLIGHT
NATIVES NOT SURPRISED
LONDON, Jan. 4. Captain Alan Cobliam, who is Hying from Cairo to the Cape, telegraphs to the Daily Mail:— “We have crossed the dreaded swamp district along the upper reaches of the Nile, and have flown 400 miles from Malakal. The Shilluk natives were not surprised at seeing the aeroplane, and readily pushed it into the shelter arranged, and welcomed us with a tom-tom war dance, wearing vivid head-dresses • and brandishing gleaming spears. “We followed the telegraph line across the swamp with a view to communicating thereby in the event of engine failure, and proved that it would be easy to inaugurate a regular air line, especially with hydroplanes, from Cairo to Mongolia. “We are now proceeding to investigate the best route for the CairoKenya air mail service, which will reduce the present period of a month to six days.” . , , . Captain Cobliam said they sighted a huge herd of buck, and descended within 20 feet, filming tho animals while chasing them.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2988, 19 January 1926, Page 1
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168ACROSS AFRICA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2988, 19 January 1926, Page 1
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