SIXTY DAYS IN CANOES.
EXPLORING THE AMAZONAS. ROOSEVELT NEARLY DROWNED. ONE MAN GOES MAD. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) London, This Day. Advices from Amazonas, in the West of Brazil, state that Roosevelt’s expedition collected 2100 natural history specimens, many being unknown. The New river is a thousand miles long, and the party discovered the upper portion hitherto unknown, although the mouth was known to a few rubber hunters. The river is largely unnavigable owing to rapids. The party spent sixty days in canoes, averaging two miles daily. One man was drowned in the rapids. Roosevelt and his son Kermit had a narrow escape. Another man went mad, murdered a comrade, and fled into the wilderness.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4830, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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121SIXTY DAYS IN CANOES. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4830, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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