LOST LEGENDARY CITY.
FOILED SEEKERS. DINNER PARTY IN LONDON. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, June 24. Men who have searched long but fruitlessly for a legendary lost city will hold a dinner in London to-night, says the Morning Post. They are members of the Zarzura Club, all of whom have accompanied expeditions to look for the lost city after which the club is named. Called in Arabic “ the Place of Starlings,” Zarzura is supposed to be somewhere in the Libyan Desert. Lost camelmen have told stories of a “wondrous city with roofs white as a pigeon’s eggs ” and still inhabited. Despite frequent expeditions, however, no trace of it has yet been found. “ These expeditions have traversed waterless desert in every direction, and it is now fairly safe to assume that Zarzura no longer exls'ts,” a Morning Post representative was informed last night. The oity may lie buried under sand dunes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 10
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150LOST LEGENDARY CITY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 10
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