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...After leaving Liberia we go south along the coast of Africa and strike in to the interior of the continent along the Congo river. This is the region where sleeping sickness is prevalent, and will thus be a field of particular interest...
Pushing on, they reached the western boundary of Kaasu Province some eighty miles from the Turkestan border. There they had hoped to spend some months studying and making complete photographic records of the wall paintings in the Tun Huang grottoes. News from the coast, however, arrived at about that time that the strikes and shootings in Shanghai had resulted in what amounted to a general and anti-foreign sentiment. This was felt even in the remote west and the Harvard party were not permitted to take up their residence at the Tun Huang oasis or to make the necessary photographs...
...undertaking unique in the history of Harvard exploration is the expedition of Dr. R. P. Strong, SeD '16, which will leave for Liberia on the west coast of Africa early in June. The plans and general purpose of the expedition were made public by Dr. Strong last night...
Liberia a negro republic about midway down the west coast of Africa presents a large area of almost unexplored territory...
Following its work in Liberia the party intends to sail south to the Belgian Congo and then procede by boat and foot through the interior of Africa, finally coming out at Membasa on the east coast. The whole expedition is expected to take nearly a year...