MR. ROOSEVELT AND PARTY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2139, 4 May 1914, Page 5

MR. ROOSEVELT AND PARTY

, e • EXCITING TIME IN AMAZONAS FIVE CANOES LOST i LEADER STRICKEN WITH FEVER ' s Br Telegraph—Press Afflociatlon-CopyiißW C n ' (Rec. May 3, 5.5 p.m.) h London, May 2. Tho "Daily Telegraph" states that g Mr. Roosevelt's party is short of food }> in Amazonas (tho west of Brazil), and 1 has lost five out of seven canoes in the s rapids and cataracts. t Mr. Roosevelt is very weak. He * lived on eggs and tea for twenty-ono * days. _ _ s Tho party was practically shut in a deep ravine for forty days, cliffs on _ either hand making it inaccessible. Progress through the jungle was at the v rate of half a kilometre (647yd5.) daily. °. Mr. Roosevelt was stricken with fever after quitting tho ravino. j . c SHOOTING THE RAPIDS. e NARROW ESCAPE. I New York, May 1. S Mr. Anthony Fiala, one of Mr. Roose- ? velt's companions on his' expedition, j has arrived from Rio do Janiero. He j, says the oxpedition was sucked under g when shooting the rapids on the Papa- [ faio River. The natives swam ashore, 0 ut Mr. Fiala, with great difficulty, C avoided drowning owing to a map hoard s strapped! to his wrist. Ho managed to jj catch an overbanging tree and climb up J it. He then scrambled ashore. ', Mr.-Roosevelt did not accompany the ■ party on this occasion. i i'.i t: