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Show DANISH EXPLORER IN NEW YORK Confirms Discovery of River in Brazil by Colonel Roosevelt Party. ! BRINGS RARE IDOLS V Ancient Ceramics and Funeral ; Urns Prove Former Presence Pres-ence of Asiatic Peoples. ! i I New York. July 2 Algot Lange. a Danish explorer, who went Into the j Amazon district in December. 1912, ; v.lth an expedition sent out by the University of Pennsylvania, arrived here yesterday aboard the steamship Denis from Para. Brazil. He had talked with natives who j wf-re familiar with the movement of the Roosevelt party and all told him. he said, that there was no doubt of the colonel's having discovered an unexplored river 1000 miles long. .Mr. Lange said he himself never questioned Mr. Hoosevelt's report of I hl discoveries. Mr. Lange brought with him crates J filled with rare idols, ceramics and I funeral urns, found on an ancient Amazon Am-azon river Island, which apparently was once peopled by a race of Asiatic origin. |