ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION.
SOME STRENUOUS TIMES. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright London, May 0. Advices from Manaoa, in Brazil, state that the Roosevelt expedition lias collected 2100 natural history specimens, many of them unknown before. Anew river a thousand miles long has bees discovered. The upper portion has been kitherto unknown, although the mouth was known to a few rubber-hunt-ers. It is largely unnavigable, owing to rapids. The party .spent sixty days in canoes, averaging two miles daily. One man was drowned in some rapids. Mr, Roosevelt and his son Kermit had a narrow escape. Another member of the party went mad, murdered a comrade, and fled into the wilder-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 288, 8 May 1914, Page 5
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108ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 288, 8 May 1914, Page 5
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