Word: decateur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exciting adventures, not only in the Western section of the United States, but in all parts of the world. It was in 1904 while exploring the northern part of Africa, that Mr. Furlong discovered in Tripoli Harbor the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia; sunk there by Lieutenant Decateur just one hundred years before. In 1907 he transferred his explorations from Africa to South America. His scientific explorations during the next three years in Patagonia and Venezuela enabled him to make valuable collec- tions which he later gave to the American Museum of Natural History in New York...
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