ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION
NEW RIVER DISCOVERED
EXPERIENCES OK THE PARTY
(Ebeas —Copyright.)
(Received llav 7. 9 a.n:.) LONDON, May 6
Advices from Manaos, m Brazil state that Mr Roosevelt's expedition collected 2100 natural history specimens, many of them previously unknown. A new river 1000 miles long was discovered. It was hithertc; unknown, although the mouth was known to a few rubber hunters. The river is largely unnavigable owing to rapids. • The expedition spent OJ days in canoes, averaging two miles daily. One man was drowned in rapids and Mr "Roosevelt and. his son Kermet had a narrow escape. Another member ot the expedition went mad. murdered a comrailc, and fled into the wilderness.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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