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Show JSBjl I ROOSEVELT TO EXPLORE SOUTH AMERICA I New York. Oct. 4. -Theodore Roosevelt set out today for the second time since he left the B White House on a long journey. The sailing of the Lamport and Holt line steamer Van Dyck, on which he had booked passage I for South America, was timed I for 1 o'clock, but he and his I party were astir early with final I preparations for embarking, and I many of the Progressive party I leaders who tendered a great 1 farewell dinner atop of a New 1 York theatre last night arranged I to be on hand to give him a I good sendoff at the foot of I Montague street, Brooklyn. ' 1 Like his East African trip, I the South American journey is I undertaken with the colonel pro- I posing to make it one of many I aspects aside from the pleasure i of it. His chief interest prob- I ably lies in the proposed pene- 1 tration of the interior of Brazil I with a party of fellow natural- 1 ists under the auspices of the I American museum of natural 1 history, but the earlier part of 1 the six months which he will I spend in South America will be I devoted to addresses on Amerl- 1 can democracy, which he has I been invited to deliver before 1 universities and other bodies. I A trip into Patagonia to visit an I out or the way mission, and two I crossings of the continent to I Santiago de 'Chile and back to I Buenos Ayres will be other fea- I tures of his journey. I Those who prepared to em- 1 bark with him today were Mrs. I Roosevelt and Miss Margaret I Roosevelt, who will make the I round trip on the Van Dyck; I Antony Piala, the popular ex-- I plorer, who has charge of the 1 expedition's equipment; G. K. I Cheiry and Leo L. Miller, nat- I - ralists of the American museum of natural history-; Prank Harper, Har-per, Colonel Roosevelt's secretary, secre-tary, and the Rev. Father John Augustine Zahn, provincial of the Order of the Holy Cross, a former field companion of the colonel. The naturalists wlil start into the interior shortly after their arrival in Brazil to be joined by the colonel after he has finished his lectures, which will be in December. It will probably be ; April before the party returns to civilization. |