MODERN ADAM IN NEW EDEN
A modern "Adam";is roaming New Brunswick, Canada, living under primitive _ conditions, to discover how far civilisation has destroyed man's vigour and power of resource, says a New York message. He ;is Mr. Morton M' Connell, who was an assistant to the explorer Stefansson on his Canadian Arctic expedition, ; and . for ten weeks he will live on rabbits and birds, or any animal he can catch with traps made without the-.aid"of modern tools. Mr. M'Connell almost fell.to the temp-, tation of including fish-hooks and. •needles in his scanty outfit, but then decided that this would hamper him in his desire for thetruth.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 25
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106MODERN ADAM IN NEW EDEN Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 25
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