Carlyle Expedition

Background

Erica believes Dr. Huston had the idea for the expedition. Erica worried when she heard that Anastasia was going.

Route

Carlyle Expedition

• Left from New York, NY, USA aboard British steamship Imperial Standard on April 5, 1919

• London, England
  • Performed researches under the auspices of the Penhew Foundation
• Cairo, Egypt
  • Departed June 30 - July 3, 1919 for "East Africa" via ship, supposedly for "well-earned rest"

• Mombasa, Kenya

• Nairobi, Kenya
  • Departed August 3, 1919, ostensibly on camera safari, but rumor insisted they ere after legendary Biblical treasures
  • Reportedly intended to explore Great Rift Valley to the northwest of Nairobi
  • Last contact in August 1919

Erica Carlyle's Journey

• Mombasa, Kenya
  • Erica Carlyle arrives March 11, 1920, aboard Egyptian ship Fount of Life

• • Recent Kikuyu-villager reports of massacre near Aberdare Forest
  • Departs March 12, 1920
• Nairobi, Kenya
  • Carlyle Expedition confirmed massacred on May 24, 1920

• • Erica credits Kikuyu tribesmen for discovery, although police found the massacre site
  • Erica departs somewhere around the beginning of June 1920
  • Five Nandi tribesmen executed on June 19, 1920, convicted as ringleaders of Carlyle Expedition massacre

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