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Show oo EXPLORERS MAI HE A V I Wise and Jones, Terrestrial Magnetism Experts in South America, Heard From. PITTSBURG, Aug. 2S. Anxiety of friends here for tho safety of Daniel M. Wise and Bradley Jones, who wero reported In a letter received in San Francisco Sunday as being in danger of death In a junglo in South America has been relieved by a later letter, which though telling of hazardous adventures, ad-ventures, expressed the hope that the two men would be able to push through the mountains of Peru to the coast. Wise and Jones, it was learned today, set out on an expedition expedi-tion to South America on September 30, 1916, and are connected with the department of Terrestial Magnetism of Carnegie institute of Washington, D. C, instead of the Carnegie institute of Pittsburg, as previously reported. Tho later letter was mailed at Uchiza, Peru, and was written by Wise while they were on the RlverHoul-logu, RlverHoul-logu, a branch of the Amazon. At the time of writing the party had not eaten bread' for more than three weeks and had been subsisting on green bananas, ba-nanas, either boiled or baked. A number num-ber of valuable scientific instruments and their entlro supply of money was lost a few days before the letter was written when their canoe struck a snag and capsized. To reach the coast, Wise wrote, they would have to cross two ranges of the Andes and pass through several belts whore malignant ma-lignant fevers and diseases are common. com-mon. oo |