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Show ADVENTURESOME AMERICANS WILL SEARCH JUNGLE FOR VAST STORE OF DIAMONDS . A . J NEW YORK, Feb. 2G Two young Americans sailed Friday from this port for South America to search for a vast store of wealth supposed to bo He in tho "Chimney" of the diamond deposit of lirltlsh Guiana. At Georgetown, George-town, the capital of the British possession, posses-sion, they will be Joined by a third adventuresome American, who has outfitted out-fitted ln Paris. The expedition is under the patronage patron-age of Harvard university and the SmJthonlan Institute of Washington, for which it will tarry on geographical geographi-cal explorations. William J. LaVarre, Jr., ji Harvard graduate of 1!H0. heads the party and his fellow explorers explor-ers are James Maclonald. of Lima, hlo. and Dudley L,wi8. of Springfield, Spring-field, Mass. They expect to spend more than a year Ut the jungle. Besides an ultempt to follow the scattered deposits of precious stones several hundred miles through tangle. , reptile Infest. .1 Wilderness I" their source, long known to exist somewhere in the hill country, but never discovered, discov-ered, tho expedition vsill take observations observa-tions of the aboriginal inhabitants and KeoloRlcal features of tho country', as well as capture specimens of native wild animals for the Smlthonlnn institute. insti-tute. Before his departure on the Brazilian Brazil-ian steamer L'berabn. Mr. I-iYarre outlined details of the ad vi-nturesome project. Though still ln his twenties the young explorer haa accompanied three expeditions to South and CVntral America, including a difficult mission into the heart of the Andes. fter provisions are provided at Georgetown, the expedition will board a canoe houseboat with a crew of a dozen to twenty oarsmen and laborers, labor-ers, and begin its JourDO up the - r Essquibo river, passing out of the area settled by white men In a few days' paddling. After that It will penetrate the tropical Jungle entirely on its own resources. Establishing headquarters in tho prairie country 170 miles up tho Mazu-runl Mazu-runl river, which empties into thS .Essequibo, the diamond hunters will j begin work on tho alluvial lands bor-Jderlng bor-Jderlng streams on the eastern watershed water-shed of the Sierra Paearulma mountains moun-tains whbh separate British Guiana I from Venezuela. The area in which the expedition wlll operate has been known since tho I middle of the last century as a. rich diamond field, although Its inaccessa-ibillty inaccessa-ibillty and the prevulcnco of tropical U;--ases hnvo served to discourage prospecting by v.hlt. men. Thousands I of carats of the gems, said to bo as line .ls am in the world, however, are Liken out annually by negro miners employing primitive methods, '"Somewhere near every spot where .diamonds are found In considerable .numbers there must be a ' hlmney," explained Mr. FaVaire. "There Is no telling definite! Where the Guiana 'chimney' is located, but we mean lo find It and are basing out expectations on more than speculation. Study of data collected by other explorers and prospectors, as well as my own observations, ob-servations, indicate that li is within a certain area near the Venezuela bor- I dcr." He added that the quality of stones .taken from the viclnlly where his party par-ty will work points to a "chimney" las rich or richer than thoso of the South African diamond fields. Anlmuls which will be taken for the Washington Zoological garden include I tapirs, anteaters, jaguars and monkeys, as well us a v ariety of tropical birds. |