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Unveiling the Senussi Shrines

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THE story of Mrs. Rosita Forbes's journey to the oasis of Kufra, situated in the heart of the Libyan Desert, constitutes the “something new out of Africa” of which few vestiges remain to be revealed. The three instalments recently published by the Times, under the title of “Secrets of the Sahara,” contained the latest, and in some respects the only, information from a locality in the Libyan Desert unexplored since the visit of Gerhard Rohlfs in 1879.

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WHITE, A. Unveiling the Senussi Shrines. Nature 107, 366–367 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107366a0

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