EXPLORATION OF THE AMAZON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16782, 25 August 1916, Page 4

EXPLORATION OF THE AMAZON.

MR H. RICE'S PROGRAMME.

HIS WIFE TO ACCOMPANY HIM

Press Association —By Telegiaph—Copyright,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, August 23. Mrs Hamilton Rice (formerly widow of Mr George Widener, a Titanic victim) will accompany her husband on,his next exploration in South America. - They will leave the United States shortly in the palatial yacht once ownedi 'by King Leopold II of Belgium. Dr and Mrs Rice propose to make a thorough exploration of the Amazon River with small vessels.

Dr Alexander Hamilton Rico, a member of the surgical staff of the Ambulance Amei icaine, Paris, explored the Napo River, Ecuador, in 1901; crossed Venezuela and Columbia from Caraca to Bogota in 1906-7; explored and mapped tho Naupis River, of Columbia and Brazil in 1907-8; carried on further explorations in the North-west Amiyon basin of the important tributarv rivers of the Cagneta, Negro, and Orinoco systems, 3 911-13; vvas awarded patron's gold medal of Royal Goographioal Society, and gold medal of "Harvard Travellers' Club in 1914.