SIXTY DAYS IN CANOES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 77, 7 May 1914, Page 11

SIXTY DAYS IN CANOES.

ROOSEVELT'S EXPEDITION

THRILLS IN THE RAPIDS.

MADNESS, MURDER, AND FLIGHT.

SOME VALUABLE DISCOVERIES.

(Received May 7, 9.30 ft.m.) LONDON, May 6.

Advices from Manoos, in Brazil, state that Roosevelt 'b expedition collected 2100 natural history specimens, many of which were previously unknown.

A new river, a thousand miles long, was discovered, the upper portion of which was hitherto unknown, although the mouth was known to a few rubber hunters.

The river for the greater part is not navigable, owing to rapids. The expedition spent sixty days in canoes, averaging two miles daily. ' One man was drowned in the rapids.

Mr Roosevelt and his son Kermit had a narrow escape.

Another member of the expedition went mad. He murdered a comrade, and fled into the wilderness.