SEEKING ADVENTURE
PARTY FOB. HONDURAS For his great adventure in British Honduras with Dr. Thomas Gann and Lady Brown, wife of Sir Richmond Brown, Mr F. A. Mitchell-Hedges recently at Liverpool saw his yacht Cara, of 20 tons, placed on board the Harrison liner Traveller. .* The three explorers intend further to investigate the unknown and deadly region in Central America, .where where some months ago they discovered the ruins of the lost city of Lubaantum, the seat of the Maya peop.e. Among their luggage - are 3000 fish hooks, some of them weighing 141 b each, and 92 harpoons, several of which are 44 feet long. With these it is hoped to capture what Mr Hedges states is now definitely Knowft to exist, the Rhinodon typieus (or whale shark). The length of an adult typieus Is, he states, at bast 70ft, and if harpooned it could pull the Cara for three days and two nights.
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Shannon News, 16 January 1925, Page 3
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154SEEKING ADVENTURE Shannon News, 16 January 1925, Page 3
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