International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

fever, groaned aloud and invoked help, had something of the epic and the legendary, and recalls to our minds the memory of the ancient migrations of the Arian peoples, flexible in body and in mind, of the Indo-Germanic and Persian peoples who came from the banks of the foaming Ganges, and the sacred banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates — the cradle of civilized mankind — and migrated westward. After leaving Auidi, the caravan still pursuing its way through desert regions devoid of water, reached Ugub, where, in view of the very severe difficulties caused by the engineer's illness, it was decided slightly to modify the itinerary, and to visit the Teru plain, which Baron Franchetti knew to be highly interesting in respect of mineral research. At Maina, where the tents were put up in a locality close to a spring of sulphurous water, which gave out an unbreathable odour, the guide Ibrahim learnt that the bodies of the heroic explorers of the Giulietti expedition, who were assassinated by the natives in 1881, were buried in the neighbourhood. Thanks to the gift of a handsome sum of money and the solemn promise that his name would not be disclosed to the natives, the Arab pointed out the spot in which the heroic pioneers who sacrificed their lives for science and their Country were buried. At 8.30 p. m., as darkness descended with moist wings on the desert,. Baron Franchetti went to visit the Egreri locality, where lies the little cemetery with its pyramid-shaped Arab tombs. In the midst of these were two small tumuli whose form proclaimed them to be exceptional. Under this sepulchre the mortal remains of the two heroes rested in the naked earth. On the 24th May the exhumation was carried out with feverish haste 569 —