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...think that Dr. Dickey's $5,000 fee for the trip across the Andes and down the Amazon is excessive: rather it is trading upon the glamour of the tropics for the uninitiated. I'll guarantee the same trip and conditions for less than half of thai: I happen to live right on the trail...
...moving picture account of Dr. Hamilton Rice's latest expedition up the Amazon River is to be the University Film Foundation's first release, and will be shown for the first time at a meeting of the Harvard Travellers Club in the Geography Building on Monday night...
Seven different kinds of water craft were used by Dr. Rice and his men, from steamboat to dugout, until finally the expedition was forced to walk the last part of the way Besides many wild animal studies, a series of pictures of the natives along the Amazon were made, while aerial photographs afford a complete and careful survey of the whole Amazon River valley...
...Rice, who is now in charge of the new Geography Building on Divinity Avenue, has been making trips for 30 years into a rectangular region larger than the great Lakes district, around the northern tributaries of the Amazon. In the now film, his voice accompanies it with a detailed explanation of what is occuring, making the movie complete in itself, and making it possible to show it anywhere...
...scientific security, decided last week to make his next expedition primarily and frankly a sporting matter. There are de luxe steamship cruises, "dude" ranches. His next trip will be a "dude" expedition. Twelve men will go with him from Ecuador across the Andes and down the Amazon to the Atlantic this winter. Each man will pay $5,000. That will cover all his expenses and equipment except clothing, cigarets and liquor. He will have a personal Indian valet; will get travel. Inca exploration, fishing, hunting, mountain-climbing, a four-month vacation. No women, not even Mrs. Dickey will go along...