MODERN MARCO POLO
(Received 9th December, 2.30 p.m.)
CHICAGO, Bth December. Herbert Stevens, the leader of the Kelly-Roosevelt expedition into Asia, brought back a marvellous story of a barking bird and tigers that are comparatively harmless. He tells a story of grinning grizzlies never before seen by the eye of civilised man, of Tibetian monks who never wash but train j cooties in their hair to perform neat circus tricks, of natives of a forgotten land who eat baby white mice dipped in syrup, holding the tiny rodents by the tail and slipping them down their throats raw, as one would eat an oyster. Stevens travelled 1700 miles, 1000 miles on foot and 700 miles on bamboo rafts, tumbling down yellow rivers. "I couldn't quito relish the white mice," he said, "even after they were dipped in syrup, but the bamboo- rats were not so bad."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 12
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146MODERN MARCO POLO Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 12
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