The Archive · 1924

YOULOWING MARCO RULE'S ROUTE

The quest of the expedition from whom tis information has son obtained is most. interesting, the object being to traverse the whole of the Centra) Asian route followed by Marco Polo on his. suppoted journey into India by Keshgar, on the way taking moving pictures and "other photo. graphs of scientific, ethnological and geographical interest, and collecting biological specimens, Despite who hardships and dan-gors of inch an expedition start. ing in mid-winter, there is a Indy tmengst the travellers, Mr. Eugene Tamb and his wife, Corinne Lamb, with a Chinese biologist, Mr. Wong Hai-cheng, made a start On the journey early. in February, when they left Peking for Kalgan. The next stage was to Datungfu and thence to Suiyuan, or Kueihuachen; where they took % number pictures. Here-also, on February 33, they were joined, by the other member of the expedition, Mr. Floyd 8, Tangier-Smith, who had

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