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in 1974 when Joshua died in an air crash accident in South
Africa. Joshua was always convinced the Lost City of the
Kalahari Desert existed somewhere out there. “Some who
have flown a small fraction of the time and distance we did
are positive that the ruins cannot exist because they did not
see them,” he said. “We feel that we could quite possibly
have missed them in the camouflaged desert terrain, even
if they were still visible. But there is the possibility that the
ruins are completely covered. As the sand-dunes are not so
big, there should still be some evidence of a wall that Farini
could follow for a mile or even one-eighth of a mile. His
story and his description of the country ring true. Perhaps
someone will have to dig, but some day the Lost City of the
Kalahari will be found.”^73 Farini himself died of influenza
in 1929, so Joshua wrote a letter to Farini’s relatives. “We
do not feel he made the Lost City up as we have confirmed
everything else in the book.”^90
Recent research revealed that Farini didn’t find any
ruins. The most likely scenario is that he found a rock
formation that could resemble the ruins of a city buried
in the desert. On the other hand, everyone thought the city
of Troy was a myth until Heinrich Schliemann discovered
the ruins in 1873.^90 So still in the 21st century, explorers
are searching for the Lost City of the Kalahari Desert, both
through the air and on land.^74
While Joshua flew above the desert, his daughter Maye
grew up. She found her South African husband Errol Musk,
who had begun to work as an electric and mechanical
engineer. He ran his own construction engineering firm