Exploring Risks
THE PARTY SHORT OF FOOD. EX-PRESIDENT STRICKEN BY FEVER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 3, C p.m. London, May 2. The Daily Telegraph states that the Roosevelt party was short of food in the Amazon basin. They lost five out of seven canoes in rapids and cataracts. Roosevelt was very weak, and lived on ! eggs and tea for twenty-one days. The party was practically shut in a deep ravine for forty days;, the cliffs on cither hand being inaccessible. Progress through tlie jungle was at the rate of half a kilometre daily.
Roosevelt was" stricken with fever after quitting the ravine.
HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES. Received 2, 1.25 p.m. New York, May 2. Anthony Fiala, Roosevelt's companion, lias arrived from his Rio. de Janeiro expedition. He relates that he was sucked under when shooting rapids on the Papagaio river. The natives jvum ashore, but Fiala had great difficulty in avoiding drowning, owing to a. mapboard being strapped to his wrists. However, he managed to catch an overhanging tree limb. Mr Roosevelt did not accompany him on this occasion.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 284, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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