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EXPLORER’S ORDEAL IN BRITISH GUIANA FORESTS Professor Levan, an American explorer, who was reported lost in tho virgin forest of British Guiana nine months ago, recently arrived at Georgetown, the capital of tha colony, states the Georgetown! correspondent of the Evening Standard. He related how his life was saved by his horse, which brought him to safety when he was on the point of dying of starvation, after losing hi«; way in the jungle. His journey of 3000 miles through trackless forests was undertaken on behalf of the American Indian Museum of the Heye Foundation. He visited 125 Indian villages, gathering information of the customs of little-known tribes. The mostjrighly concentrated gold deposit in British Guiana, he reports, is in the Maraudi Mountains. But he was more interested in an Indian community which he describes as “ perfect Communism in actual practice.” Within the memory of the oldest living Indians, he says, there have been only four suicides and no cases of insanity or other mental or nervous disorders.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 12
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