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Show EXPLORER TELLS OF EXPEDITION Vividly Describes Experiences Through Wilds of Brazil With Colonel Roosevelt. RIVERS ARE DANGEROUS Beans Were Principal Food and All Lost in Weight During Dur-ing Hazardous Trip. New York N. Y May 1. Anthony Fiala, the explorer, who was in chargs of one of the Roosevelt expeditions in Brazil, arrived In New York today on the steamship Dennis from Rio de Janeiro He vividly described the experiences of the expedition both before and after he separated from Colonel and Kermlt Roosevelt on February 4. Telling of his 400-mlle journey across country with Roosevelt, Fiala said: "At times we were all forced to dismount from our horses and cut our way with knives through the dense undergrowth. "When we reached Matto Gooso we rested for a couple of days and then all went hunting. In one party, which went for tiger cats, were Col Roosevelt, Kermlt, a Brazilian chief of police, a Brazilian colonel and sev eral natives Kermlt, I believe. Is made of colled wire all bound up in bronze He'6 tougher than his father, fa-ther, If such a thing Is possible The party started out early in the morn Ing and pushed their way all day through swamps filled with crocodile croco-dile and snakes in pursuit of a tiger cat they had Beared up. "The Brazilians did the bc6t the could and with the negro boys, k"-pt up for secral hours But the pace set by the colonel, even in their own Jungle, was too much for them. Late at night a boy returned to the camp and said that the colonel and Kermit were about two miles off In the Jungle. Jun-gle. When they finally came out their clothing was torn to shreds and their arms and legs were bleeding In many places. But they were earning earn-ing the Brazilians' guns and 6hoes The Brazilians had quit and were lying ly-ing on their backs in a dry place recuperating re-cuperating The tiger cat got away "The principal difficulty everons in the party experienced was with the food 1 lost over twenty pounds in three weeks I believe Colonel Rouseelt lost some, too. I never want to see another bean. Colonel Roosevelt, however, ate many of them and didn't seem to mind. Great Hazards Experienced. "The great hazard In South Amerl can exploration Is the rapids and falls in the riers On the Papa-saio Papa-saio river, after I had left the colonel. I had with me six canoes. At the Rapids of the Devil we were simply sucked under Fvervthlng and ev-crybod ev-crybod went overboard. The natives, na-tives, 6tark naked reached the shore with some difficult v I had been making mak-ing a map of the river and had a board strapped to my wrist. That hindered me some and I went down several times. Finally I grabbed a limb and reached 6hore "I later learned that Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt had also lost some of his canoes." Fiala said that the Brazilians regarded re-garded Colonel Roosevelt highly. I-Jaeh one considered the former president his own personal friend. New York. May 1 Cable advices j received here today from Manaos. Brazil, where his expedition emerged yesterday from the interior, stated that Colonel Roosevelt was to sail I today or tomorrow for New York. As no mention was made of the plans of otlrer members of the party, it is presumed here that several will accompany ac-company Mr. Roosevelt and that Kermlt Ker-mlt Roosevelt will go direct to Madrid, Ma-drid, Spain, where he is to be married mar-ried shortly to the daughter of Ambassador Am-bassador Joseph E Willard. In messages received from Colonel Colo-nel Roosevelt by friends and relatives rela-tives here mention was made of his recent illness, but as the same advices ad-vices also stated that he planned to start immediately for home no alarm was felt as to his physical condition. |