Show PRIZE f IN A JUNGLE I diana Scientist Brings Back BackI BackI I Strange Fish With Legs I Dangers angers of All Kinds Are Braved by Hoosier In a Three Year Three Year Trip Through South American Wilds Wilds Tales Tales of Hardship Blo Bloomington Ind In In the midst of or mass of or specimens of or fish life Ufe ow tow reposing In the preservative of ot lie ne Carnegie Institute of ot Pittsburg Is a n of ot animal life which Is total total- I 7 I new to present-day present scientists ac ace to a statement given out here herey ty If y Dr John D D. Haseman who has list st returned after a three years three years years' trip the wilds of ot South America a ti search of ot hitherto unknown forms if sf fish life Reticent in the extreme concerning his ils discovery which It Is alleged Is l he e greatest In zoology since the days if Alexander t Humboldt Dr Haseman Would fould say only that the new species 3 s about eighteen Inches long Is blind L end ind d has 96 segments In tn its body Dr Carl H H. H Eigenmann head of ot In In- liana Iana zoological department says that he specimen Is neither a fish nor has hast t four our legs It Is known however hat bat the species has rudimentary legs ind closely resembles the American salamander alamander Only one specimen of ot othe he find Is In the possession of the Speaking aking of ot his trip across the wilds if f the Paraguay river through the mile mlle valy valey val val- stretch of ot the Amazon ey ey y and Into the unknown regions legions of ot othe he coastwise rivers ers of ot the southern Dr Haseman tells almost l stories of ot hardship and hunger and disease suffered long with his handful of ot native In the pursuit of ot the various discoveries In the scientific world which he says he will so soon n make malte pub ic Dr Haseman was the only white nan Dan inan In the party f t After Journeying almost miles lilies along the east coast of or the continent con con- from Bahia to Buenos Ayres making snaking numerous side trips Into the V valleys of ot the coastwise rivers the ther r former r er Indiana university student started on a mlle mile mile trip through the very heart of ot the continent He followed the Paraguay Paragua river from Its mouth to the source then made a mile mlle trip which took 27 21 days in order to get around an Intervening range of ot mountains This side expedition was made In a aull bull ull cart The explorer then found the bo source of ot the river traveled trav trav- traveled 1500 miles down It to the Madeira river then Into the valley of ot othe the he Amazon and down the valley of ot z the King of ot Rivers to its outlet a distance of more than 1000 miles Most of ot the long Journey was In boats some of It was on foot through almost impassable Jungles some of the way was negotiated on log rafts and at times when the rivers were dry the native guides had to pull the boats over hidden rocks A close watch had to be kept and barricades built of ot the boats themselves themselves them them- selves to keep the Indian along the route from shooting into the party with poisoned arrows At times the food supply of ot the party ran out and they were forced to shoot monkeys for food At other times Umes a limited supply of ot dried fish formed the only sustenance of ot the entire entire en en- tire party The specimen of ot the fish with feet which Is the only one of ot Its sort that scientists have been able to capture and which is so highly prized that few hints of ot Its true character character char char- acter have leaked out was captured in tho the Rio Negro river near Its Junction junction Junc junco tion with the Amazon Doctor Haseman Is the tIle only other scientist besides Johann a aGerman aGerman aGerman German naturalist who undertook a similar expedition In 1825 1525 who has made this South American trip Nat Nat- specimens are now In the Vienna museum |