ROOSEVELT IN BRAZIL.
"DISCOVERY" OP A RIVER. New York, April 18. A London man who recently arrived here from Brazil brought with him tho story of how ex-President Roosevelt, who is on a hunting and exploring expedition in South America, was made the hero of a carefully stage-managed discovery. Just before Roosevelt got to Brazil his hosts and their friends met and called in the services of the best explorers and geographers in that part of the world, with the idea of fixing up a plan so that the ex-President should not come back from his trip into the interior without discovering something. It was arranged that when Roosevelt started for the jungle he was to be accompanied by the explorers, who were prepared for the task. By easy, natural stages he was to be led to the banks of a stream, where the explorers were to exclaim, with well-feigned emotion, "This river has never beon charted. It must be a new stream which you have hud the honour of discovering." Despatches from Brazil which have already been received stated that the river wa3 "discovered," but whether it was named Theodore or not has not yet been made known.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15594, 28 April 1914, Page 10
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