Rosita Forbes in Libya
|? is now twenty years since Rosita Forbes made her great journey from north to south across Libya, but the desert is unchanging land, despite . the mechanised armies that scar its surface for a little time, and we may be sure that the people and places she saw then are not different from those encountered by moving units of the Army of the Nile to-day. In her book The Secret of the Sahara, we meet place-names that war has made familiar to us all-Benghazi, Jedabia, Jarabub, Siwa. The purpose of Mrs. Forbes’s expedition south from Jedabia was to visit and find the exact situation of Kufara, the sacred place of the Sahara, the headquarters of the ascetic and fanatical Senussi faith. Hating Christians, the Senussi had long guarded their holy of holies from Christian travellers, .. . Few Europeans had ever approached the Kufara oasis. Despite sandstorms, bad water, sick camels, and unsatisfactory servants, Rosita Forbes succeeded. She was the first European woman to enter the oasis of Kufara, and its holy cities of Taj and Jof.-(" Some Adventurous Women." Margaret Johnston, 2YA, February 28.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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186Rosita Forbes in Libya New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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