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Show From Now On He Will Be in Close Touch With Outside Gondokoro, Soudan. Feb 18 Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt, Kermlt Roosevelt and the other members of tho Smithsonian I Scientific expedition, arrived here today. to-day. All arc well. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the ether hunters and sclonlets constituting constitut-ing the expedition sent out by tho Smithsonian Institution at Washington Washing-ton have passed through the most Uving stage of thel rAfrlcan Journey and fro mnuw on will be In close touch with the outside world. For the last ten days they have been practically isolated In a wilderness where the only communication between be-tween the scattered villages was by native runners. At Gondokoro, a brick house has been placed at tho disposal of Mr, Rooscelt, In the town there are a few shops belonging to Greeks and Iudians and a few trad-1 crs make their headquarters there. The steamboats owned by the Sou-dau Sou-dau government caH once a "mouth for the passengers and the malls f"r Khartoun. The American party will embark In the sirdar's launch probab-lv probab-lv .tomorrow and proceed down the Nile to Khartoun, where they arc due about March 0th. Three days will bo sepnt at Khartoun Khar-toun when the trip to Cairo will be begun. Mrs. Roosevelt is expected to meet h.r husband and son at Khartoun. |