Roy Chapman Andrews and Party-in Search of Man's In Charge of a Brigand Peking, Apr. 16.
To-day eight Dodge lorries drove) out of Kalgan towards the Gobi desert, carrying the foreign members of the Central Asiatic Ex-petition led by the well-known scientist and explorer, Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews. "The cavalcade of cars follows in the wake of a caravan of 125 camels, led by a tame. brigand, and the entire expedition spend six months in Inner Mongolia searching hundreds of square miles of country for remains of arly life on the Central Asia pla-tean, particularly remains of very early man.
'The motto of the expedition appears to be 'Arst catch your brigand and tame him' for without a satisfactory arrangement with the outlaws that infest the area the expedition could not have left Kalgan with reasonable hope of carrying out its work or indeed of returning In an interview shortly before he left Peking Mr. Andrews explained how he negotiated the brigand difficulty, "Well," he said, "we have to make arrangements with them, have just been to Kalgan to meet their leader and pay him half his salary. The camel caravan has j lett Kalgan in his charge, brigand. He's all right, I've known him for a long time. He stole my camels once but brought them back when be found out that had married a rel my men. 1 pay him a sum before the caravan starts into the dose rantees" no interferen: never known to break his wordy "He is th liaison officer between the brigands and ourselves and when we are safely back in Kalgan he gets the rest of salary. Without such an ar rangomert we shouldn't stand ghost of a chance of getting through"
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