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Show EXPLORES WILDS OF KOREA kmerican Discoverer Finds Lakes Never Before Seen by White Man. New York. With three lakes and a . large section of northern Korea added ! to his conquests as an explorer, Roy Chapman Andrews, assistant curator 1 of the American museum, has returned j from a trip around the world. Mr. An-I An-I Jrews penetrated the north Korean wilderness as far as the mysterious I "three rivers," never before seen by j white men. The rivers proved to be ! lakes on the top of a plateau and the ! explorer described them as the most beautiful he had ever seen. Their shores are of volcanic dust and the water, which is perfectly clear, contains con-tains no fish, j The Korean journey covered a distance dis-tance of 500 miles and during its en-tire en-tire length its leader had to rely almost al-most wholly upon the compass for his location. The main object of the expedition ex-pedition was the capture of certain specimens of gray whales, needed to make the collection at the museum the most complete in the world. Andrews An-drews caught three varieties, whose Skeletons he shipped to the museum some time ago. |