Danakil Traversed from South to North in 1928

In June last year we published in the Journal a preliminary account of Mr. Nesbitt's expedition through Danakil in 1928, with a brief summary of his diaries which, together with his sketch-maps, panoramas, and photographs, had been deposited with the Society. We are now able to do greater justice to this pioneer expedition, and the following is a full account of the first part of the journey based directly on Mr. Nesbitfs daily entries in his diary, which were made throughout in English. With it are reproduced a number of the author's panoramas, sketched rapidly with a fountain pen on odd pages of his diary. The sketch-map repro? duced here is merely a diagram published for convenience in following the broader outlines of the journey and to show the approximate points from which the sketches were made and their range. A more accurate map from Mr. Nesbitt's observations will be published with the second part of the paper.?Ed. G.J

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