TIGER-CATS IN SWAMPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 33, 29 June 1914, Page 5

TIGER-CATS IN SWAMPS.

400 MILES' STRUGGLE THROUGH A JUNGLE.

New York, May 1,

One of the most romantic chapters in the life of Mr Roosevelt ended when he emerged from the Amazonian jungle and arrived at Manaos.

The ex-President's message to his 1 family, "I have been very sick, but am I now better," was amplified in cablegrams from Manaos, which state that he is suffering from boils, and can only stand with difficulty. His illness is the sequel to the terrific hardships and exertions under which he has gone. According to Mr Anthony Fiala, the first 400 miles of Mr Roosevelt's journey through the jungle was a constant fight with the dense under- I growth, through which, dismounting from tlieir horses, the party were obliged to cut a path. Mr Roosevelt, day after day, went on long hunting expeditions, pushing his way through swamps filled with crocodiles and snakes in pursuit of tiger eats. One (lay the Brazilians and negro 1 boys refused to go further and returned to the camp, where they reported that Mr Roosevelt and his son Kcrmit were two miles away in the jungle. When the colonel and his son reached the camp their clothes wen; lorn to shreds and their legs and arms were bleeding in a dozen places. The scientific results of the expedition are declared to exceed all expectations. Mr Roosevelt left the l ulled States for his hunting and exploring expedition in South America last October. After a journey of 15(KI miles up the river Paraguay, he reached Owyba, in lirazil. Thenci; a journey of . r >o<> miles brought them to the headquarters of the River of Doubt, which are 011 a great plateau. Mr Roosevelt then explored a hitherto unknown tributary of_ the River Madiera, itself a tributary of the Amazon. In this unknown territory he discovered a new tribe. Finally, _ he reached Manaos, which is on the river Amazon, and 1000 miles from the mouth of the river.