FIRST WHITE TRAVELLER
THROUGH SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE.
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] NEW YORK, July 1. A South American jungle never before penetrated by white men lias been traversed by Mr J. Simpson, a young Australian mining engineer, of Hobart, who, with an American companion, Mr P. Chase, travelled from Lima across the Andes Ranges, down the River Amazon to the Atlantic, and thence to Trinidad. Mr Simpson stated upon hsi arrival there that they, had been employed at the famous Cerro Pascal mine, and their trans-continental expedition, afoot and bv canoe, was for the pur; ose. of seeing the country. They closed the Grand Pajjonal, where there are Indians who had never heard of white men, but who proved friendly. The. trip was completed without incident.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1931, Page 2
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127FIRST WHITE TRAVELLER Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1931, Page 2
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