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...about 20 ft. long and snow-white-a friendly soul who for lack of companions of his own species had "struck up a friendship" with steamers. As the daily boat entered the Pass he would come rushing alongside and swish delightedly back & forth in front of the ship and rub himself along the sides, while tourists hung over the rail taking his picture. Sailors said his object was to rub the barnacles off his back, but whatever the reason he would gambol with the steamer until it reached the end of the Pass (15 or 20 minutes) and then disappear...
Bertram Thomas O. B. E. (Mil) will speak at a meeting of the Harvard Travelers' Club tonight at 8.30 o'clock instead of 8 o'clock, as announced yesterday. The meeting will be held in the Geographical Building where Thomas will address the group on "Crossing the Rub Al Khall, or 'Empty Quarter,' of Africa...
...Crossing the Rub' Al Khali, or 'Empty Quarter,' of Arabia" will be the subject of a lecture by Bertram Thomas O. B. E. (Mil) at a meeting of the Harvard Travelers' Club in the Geography Building at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Mr. Thomas is the author of a recent book on the same subject, and of an older work, "Arabia Felix...
Contrary to rumor, however, the quarters of the victory and eagle variety, can not be identified by the absence of any date. All genuine 25-cent pieces printed since 1915 were poorly engraved so that the dates tend to rub off easily. This defect is to be remedied, it was learned, by the issuance of a new model of the coin in the near future by the United States treasury...
ARABIA FELIX - Bertram Thomas - Scribner ($5). Last large geographical blind spot in world cartographers' eyes was the great desert Rub' al Khali, "empty quarter" of Arabia. After skirting its southern fringe for more than two months, on Jan. 10, 1931, Explorer Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among...