30,000 Years Ago: American Research Expedition in the Sahara New York, Sept. 19.
Search for the cradle from which some scientists believe civilization emanated 20,000 or 30,000 years ago, will be started on October 10 ty 'a party of anthropologists who will attempt to cross the Sahara desert in automobiles The expedition will seek d by natives: with ngs, the wal hung with drawings. There is scientific whet that some highly cultured race may have inhabited Northwestern Africa when the desert was a fertile plain.
1 Mr. Bradley Tyrrel, a trustee of Reloit College, Beloit, Wis., sailed Inst night to join the expedition at Algiers. It is backed by Count de Frorok, excavator of Carthage, the College and the Frank Branger Logan Museum at Beliot. The Royal Geographic Society of London, the {Camegie Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan are ce-operating.
Four or five automobiles will carry the party over 1,000 miles of desert wastes along the route taken by Citroen when he demonstrated the feasibility of motor traffic in the desert. Camel trains are carrying caches of gasoline and the interior to await the expedition.
'There will be five scientists and six other white men. Ag a preeaution aguinst attack by the Tuarer in the Hoggar mountains, a region never before explored by white men, a skilled interpreter will {be taken' along. Two scientific {expeditions which' previously ap-!roached the region have been wiped out.
Tyrrel believes that the ion will do for the interior of the Sahara what Mr. Roy Chap-po man Andrews has done for the Gobi
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