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EXPEDITION RETURNS. WONDERS OF CENTRAL ASIA. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] CHICAGO, Dec. 8. Herbert Stevens, leader of the Kelly Rooseveldt expedition into Asia, 1 brought back .a marvellous story of 1 barking birds and tigers that are comparatively harmless. A story of grinning grizzlies never before seen by the eye of civilised men, of Tliibetian Monks who never wash but train cooties in their hair to perform neat circus tricks, of natives of a forgotten land who eat bats and white mice dipped in syrup, holding the tiny rodents by the tails and clipping them down their throats raw, :as we would oysters. Stevens travelled a total oi seven"teen hundred miles, a thousand on foot and seven hundred miles on bamboo rafts, tumbling down yellow rivers. “I could not quite relish white mice,” he said, “even after they were dipped in syrup, but bamboo rats were not so bad.” STERLING ADVANCES. (Received this (lav at 9.25 a.m.) ■NEW YORK, December 9. Sterling advanced on New York market to-day above 4831 at which level export to Britain would appear to lie profitable. This is the highest level since the end of 1927.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1929, Page 5
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