Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-09-24 | Page 28 | Land of Tree-Climbing Kangaroos and Gold and Gems to be Explored

Land of Tree-Climbing Kangaroos And Gold and Gems to Be Explored j a 11 11 11 eLONDO.V, Sept.' tJ. A dar'ng scheme to explore British Guinea 1 shortly to b undertaken by th British expedition. expe-dition. Th Interior of the bland has! never been traversed by a whit man. (Kld and diamonda are known to ex-v 1st. but nothing 1 known f its fauna. Fierce tribes of cannbals sad head-hunters head-hunters roam the interior, leucius Connolly, one of the organisers organis-ers ef the expedition, described the Inhabitants along ths seaboard aa men o( splendid phusique aitbough a large number of pigmy commumis . are krown to exist inland. Tree-climbing kangaroos really exist and there are stories of w ltd piga re-kimhiinic re-kimhiinic miniature eleph-tn-.s snd ferocious fer-ocious trcs-viluibing Iguana a Although Conaolley's description cund ilk a cross bet w tea Treaaure Island and ths Cruise of the Kawa. ex-etpt ex-etpt that there le a far more serious aids to ths expedition. Along; the banks and st th mouths of its rivers, alluvial golj has been found In quantities which lead ex pen a to believe that vast deposlies ex'st in the Interior. There srs well authenticated stories of adventurous traders In recent yeara having received from native magnificent magnifi-cent diamonda The Island abounda In volcanoes which iavartaMr Indicate diamond producing capacity. Moat of I kern ara believed extinct but .one re-fraina re-fraina In almost constant eruption. The nat K e from tlrne 'mmemorlaf ha a worshipped, th f ir-beich(Ag ssooatcr.