Fired by the exploits of the heraei and friends of
his boyhood, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Roald ATIMMISCO, Count Byron Khun de Prorok has explored in many parts of the world, but particularly the Sahara, where lie recently exposed the tomb of Queen Tin Hanan in the Tuareg country. It is a feat of which he is proud, and he relates all the circum- stances, including the protests of the tribesmen, with complete candour in Mysterious Sahara (Murray, 21s.). While the digging was in progress, a cinematograph operator recorded this notable example of Anglo-Saxon research. Then came the removal of the skeleton to "a suitable museum in Algiers." " To me the spectacle was dramatic," writes Count de Promk.
... Here were these men of the desert, descendants of an ancient civilization, reverently following their queen on her last voyage. And what a strange voyage for such a queen! The twelve-wheeled Renault, bearing her bones, became a juggernaut carrying in state a queen who, to her people, had become a deity." How the Tuaregs must love our Western civilization !
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