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Show EXPEDITION TO THEANDES American Explorer and Brazilian Admiral Go to Upper Amazon New York. Dec. 28. An expedition to explore the upper waters of the Amazon and the regions Inhabited by the cannibals In the foothills of the Andes, starts today with the departure depart-ure of Algt Lange, a young American explorer and Admiral Jose Carvalho. of tho Brazilian navy for Para where they will take the yacht, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, for the cruise. They will be Joined at Para by Dr Franklyu Chinch of Johns Hopkins university ' the biologist of the expedition. Cap-i tain J. II, Rowan, a former coinman- I dei of the United States navj and Sandy McXab, former chief of police! of Frankfort, S D, who explored the I Amazon with Dr Lange on a previous trip. The University of Pennsyhanla Is backing the expedition with a fund of about $100,000. The hope of the Brazilian admiral is to explore the upper tiibutaries of the Amazon some 600 in all. and to open this great country to commerce The sci- cntists in the expedition will collet speciments of birds, mammale flora and minerals and make an effort to determine the origin of some of the tribes ot the cannibal Indians |