Re: Cairo III
In reply to Matthew 'Matt' Clancy (msg # 219):
Alexander held on as the lorry lurched forward when Matt put the big vehicle in gear.
"I should let you in on what my friends are doing here and hope to accomplish.
"As you may recall, back in 1919-1920 the Carlyle Expedition arrived here from New York via London. It was funded by American playboy, Roger Carlyle, in conjunction with the Penhew Institute in London. They arrived in late 1919 at the start of "digging season" (the winter) and left for Kenya in early 1920, to return before the digging season ended in March or April and it got too hot. They were all slaughtered by natives while there, in Kenya, possibly by primitive cultists.
"My friends, JM, Cynthia, JM, et al, were friends with an investigative reporter and author, Jackson Elias, who thought some or all of the expedition's principals were still alive. He travelled to at least London, Cairo, Nairobi and we think Shanghai to track down leads. When he returned to New York he asked his friends for help, but was killed by cultists. So that's what my friends are doing here: looking for traces of the Carlyle expedition and perhaps find if any of them are alive. Especially Roger Carlyle, at the behest of his sister, Erica.
"Something to consider: the Carlyle expedition did visit Dashur. They also visited the Collapsed Pyramd at Meidum, thirty miles to the north of there, upriver. There something happened. It was witnessed by Warren Bessart, Carlyle's agent here in Cairo. (He is alive because he did not accompany them to Kenya.) He was broken by what he saw there, and feels he would have perished had it not been for a local porter, Nyti al-Wasta. We are very close to the town of al-Wasta, another thirty miles, perhaps before we return to Cairo we can pay him a visit? In the daylight the journey will be much quicker."
This message was last edited by the player at 22:34, Fri 22 Feb 2019.