Word: balbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birds, among the Solomon Islands only 500 miles from Papua, is Hannibal Hamlin, 24, great-grandson of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first vice president. He heads the Whitney South Sea Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. His present despatches report him having reached the crater of Balbi, active volcano on the northwest coast of the Island of Bougainville. For aids through tropical rains, mud and brush he could get only two Polynesian sailors. Natives, however, did not molest...
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