Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1931, Page 36

PROGRESS MISSES DASIS ARCHIPELAGD Kharga, Dating Back to 16th Century B. C., Retains Primitive Customs. Becrets of a civilization of 3,500 years #go in the Libyan Desert were studied by & British expedition which recently completed several months’ Kharga casis. “Kharga is an oasis archipelago—a series of small oases dotting a depres- sion half again as large as Rhode Is- land, which lies about 125 miles wesl of Luxor, Egypt,” says & bulletin from the Natidnal Geographic Society. “Ruins_of anclent buildings “spread over a wide area of the oasis indicate that it was once a thickly populated re- glon. Now there are about 8,000 in- habitants, mostly Berbers, who live in 15 villages and towns. “Since 1908 a narrow-gauge railroad has connected Kharga with the main line of the Nile Valley Railroad, automo- biles have crossed and recrossed the nearby caravan routes and airplanes have frequently landed in the oasis, but itive customs still prevail among natives. Fields Cultivated With Hoe. “A plow would be a curiosity to a Kharga farmer; he cultivates his fields with a hoe. The irrigation system, per- haps, was old when the Christian era Jrk in the | began. Weavers make rush-shaped pan- | niers for donkeys and floor mats with- out the use of labor-saving frames and other devices. An ox, traveling a cir- cular path around two huge grinding stones, furnishes power for the native flour mill. Where ox power is not avail- able grain is placed in the hollows of large stones and beaten by the women with smaller stones. churn is a skin tied to & pole. Churn- {ing is done by swinging the skin to and fro with a jerky motion. “Historians have traced Kharga's ex- istence back to the sixteenth century B.C. Perhaps the outstanding archi- tectural gem is the ruin of the Temple of Hibis, a sandstone structure that Darius II completed in the fifth century B.C. Mud forts, built in the form of castles, with 30-fuc recall the occupation of the oasls he Romans. Once Place of Exile. “Prom time to time, when Kharga was a more isolated region, it was a sort of desert 'St. Helena.' One of its veral well fortified mon- d tw the exiled groups of oases—n and southern groups. It is a caravan travel over a sterile, uninhabited region from one group to the other. “Kharga, the chief town in the oasis, s in the southern group. It is sur- rounded by groves of palms and pro- ductive irrigated farms. Many of the Kharga streets are winding tunnels formed by the meeting of the upper stories of bordering houses. In some places the tunnels ere so low that a pedestrian cannot walk upright, and so long that in parts of them even the inhabitants must feel thelr way through darkness. Natives say the strcets were bullt thus to withstand attacks. “The open streets are solidly walled by the rough. ugly facadcs of mud buildings. Rows of upright palm leaves border the roofs of many houses. At first glance they appear to be merely decorative. But the roof is the favorite resort of the secluded womenfolk in Kharga, 5o the leaves really insure pri- vacy. ‘The roofs occupants cannot be seen, but they can observe the happen- ings in the Kharga streets.” Delicious Scallop. Tuna fish and crab meat are deliclous made into a scallop. Use equal parts of fish and crab meat, add som~ cream sauce, top with fine bread crumbs, and dots of butter, and bake. The native butter | Commons Closes Nightly With Light Out and a Chant LONDON (®)—Every night when the House of Commons rises two things hlgam A light winks out atop the building and police- men in the lobbies start & chant: “Who goes home? Who goes e The light lets London know the lawmakers have done another day's work. The chanted ques- tion is a relic of the time when the city was dark and beset by footpads. T ‘those “good ol dly;; drunks amused ~themselves beating up defenseless pedes- trians, and those going home formed in groups for protection. 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