Show R 0 ose S ti I 1 it 11 PJ lal mum 0 mob 4 x ex xv 00 amp kerm K amz ale kerig wild rams places in asia 7 by JOHN SHERMAN ND when you leave this little B co country u and ride three days day arbi n northeast rth east always among y B mountains you got get to such euch in a height that tin tie skid said to be the highest place in the world there are great numbers urn bers of all kinds kind of wild beasts among others wild sheep of groat great IS ice whose horns borna are good food six palms palm in length the plain to li called and you ride ads across it tor for twelve days daya together finding no nothing th ing but a desert without habitation or any green thing no ao that travelers traveler are obliged to carry with thern them whatever they have need ot of the region la Is so lofty and cold that you do not even see ee any birds flying and I 1 must also notice that because of this great cold fire does not burn so no brightly nor give out so BO much heat to as usual nor inor does it cook food so 0 o effectually MARCO POLO how would you like to be this summer with kermit and theodore roosevelt hunting for marco wild of great size up in the thlin ihan mountains of eastern turkestan Turk estan I 1 thought so apparently most moat of the ten tea million male americans between ten and nineteen to say noth nothing 9 of the grownups grown ups upa and women are simply I 1 ply consumed with envy for according to their tentative schedule komi ko MI ml and suto su to they are so go named in their chinese credentials are just about now in Sri india d la with george K cherrie Cherr le who went 1 ahead to arrange for an outfit of yaks long haired ponies and fifty or more natives they are probably we wearing arling some kind of queer native costume fussing over their shoot ln irons and casting impatient glances from the vale of kashmir toward the giant mountains overhead the Roosevel ts and cherrie con statute an amerlean american scientific ex p e d I 1 t I 1 0 n fl fi danced by james simpson of chicago in the interest of the field museum of that city the purpose Is IB the collection of the rare animal life of a region practically in the museums of this country the ithe grouped photographs photograph 8 reproduced herewith show ghow some of these rare animals two rare ram be beaff abts of prey are the snow leopard and the lons long balfred tiger then there i ar the goa poo and burrel barrel not to mention T U it X C S 7 A N A ft YAM J ACRI A I 1 N D I 1 A aa antelopes deer and wild camels what the expedition wants roost most however la Is marco mountain sheep ovis poll named for him by latter day naturalists natura lists this sheep cheep was long considered fabulous but there Is such an animal unless it has baa now become extinct this was settled in 1838 when john wood an englishman sent to the royal asiatic society an ovis poll horn born measuring 50 inches on the curve the draw ing reproduced Is supposed to portray a male and female of the species they strongly suggest our big horn of the rock ro ckles fes still to be found in rocky mountain yellowstone and glacier national parks this marco polo was a Ven venetian etlan gentleman of the thirteenth century in prison at genoa he entertained his fellow prisoners with marvelous tales of his bis travels later he be and a scribe put the tales ales into the book of ser marco polo the Vene venation Ve netlon tion concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the east the book became the best seller of the med leva lle world it was universally believed to be one gorgeous fabrication from beginning to end and marco enrco polo was honored for many centuries as the worlds biggest liar but time played havoc with marco reputation formost for most of his bis tales were found to be true the quoted extract from the thirty second chapter of his book Is a good N t I 1 T r i j AW ava juar sample of his true lies hea he actually was there about the year 1260 1250 and hla his description is probably exact the route he traveled runs up to feet in places and water bolls at about degrees the Roosevel ts tire are chips of the old block IT tr it of strenuous life tame fame the sons are upholding the roosevelt tradition kermit Is a seasoned out of doors man ue he was with his father in africa and brazil brazal and ling ha hunted in alaska manchuria and india theodore says lie he Is the tenderfoot of the party cherrie Is a veteran naturalist who has roade made thirty nine explorations including the roosevelt expedition to the river of doubt but this Is ha first venture in asiatic hunting bunting dangers encountered and hardships endured lj la the name of sport outnumber even the multitude of sins sine popularly supposed to be covered by charity the months trip from new york to Sri by sea roll and motor was easy but heres a bare outline of what the hunters are now facing it will take them a month or so BO to climb the burzil trail to on the roof of the world the jumping off place of the narrow and dangerous trail overn averages an altitude of feet which taxes vitality and Is an add acid test of tempers tempera and dispositions travel through snow passes Is mostly by night for fear N W ke 2 ai will aw 4 7 qa ovis polk drawing axon oxon and oese by R lydecker Ly dekker of avalanches and la Is only about halfway ay to the lofty plateau and the ho surrounding region Is a famine country fed from the valleys below so the roose belts must carry food supplies to last to the plateau time Is pro pre clous in these liese mountains winter closes the passes early and if the Roosevel ts dont get back in to the vale of 0 kashmir by early october they will either have to stay all winter or go out oat to the north by described am |