MARVELLOUS TALES
TOLD BY EXPLORER BASKING BIBBS AND iIABMIESS TIGERS. WHITE MICE AS FOOD. (United Press Association—By OitbleCopy right.) (Received 9, 9.45 a.m.) Chicago, Dec. 8. Mr Herbert Stevens, leader of the Kclly-Roosevclt Expedition into Asia, brought back marvellous stories of barking birds and tigers that are comparatively harmless, of grinning grizzzlies never before seen by the eye of civilised man, of Thibetian monks who never wash, but train cooties in their hair to perform neat cncus tricks, of natives of a forgotten land who cat baby white mice dipped in syrup, holding the tiny rodents by their tails and slipping them down their throats raw as we would eat oysters. Mr. Stevens travelled a total of 1700 miles, 1000 on foot and 700 miles on bamboo rafts tumbling down yellow rivers. “We could not quite relish the white mice,” he said, “even after they were dipped in syrup, but bamboo rats were not so bad.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 303, 9 December 1929, Page 5
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