Word: soudan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Putnam left in October, 1927, as assistant to F. R. Wulsin '12 who had been sent to make anthropological studies in the French Soudan. Entering through the Belgium Congo, Mr. Wulsin was so impressed with the opportunity for research work that he left his associate there to carry out the task. Mr. Putnam spent all last year making observations and collecting native implements and products, which have already been sent to the University Museum...
...Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan...
...first adventure came at the age of 18 when The Melbourne Argus sent him to Egypt to cover the British campaign in the Soudan following the disastrous siege that ended when General Gordon's head rolled 'down the steps of the palace in Khartoum. There followed several years of wandering in the Far East, .with the Bunbury Expedition in New Guinea and elsewhere. In 1890 he came to Vancouver, and during the next eight years was on the staff of several papers on the West Coast...
...that will occupy the entire length of his lecture in the Union at 8 o'clock tonight, Colonel H. K. Eustace will describe his recent expeditions in Africa. In the course of 27 years' experience in the dark continent, Colonel Eustace has penetrated the interior of Morocco, Algiers, the Soudan, and all the East Coast territories. In connection with his business of procuring elephant tusks, he searched continually for the "graveyards" of the beasts, which were known to exist because no elephant has ever been found dead of old age, but which had never been discovered. After many years...