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More tribulation struck the Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, June 1 et ante) on the Brazilian-Bolivian border last week. John S. Clarke Jr.. one of the backers and leaders, shot a jaguar. In the excitement another member of the party shot...
...last winter. The late Paul Rainey had used a pack successfully in Africa many years ago. But Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt when they went to mid-Asia for Ovis poli found hounds useless on cold desert plateaus. On the other hand David Newell, Floridan organizer of the Matto Grosso pack, had confidence in U. S. dogs' abilities...
...Chrysocyon brachyurus). Except for Buck and Bill whom alligators killed, the dogs escaped serious mauling by game. Old Jake, 6, their leader, had his right ear clawed by a jaguar. It had to be amputated. Old Jake was responsible for 17 jaguars, six pumas, twelve ocelots. Prior to this Matto Grosso hunt, when he lived in Arizona, he had to his credit 60 pumas. 26 black bears, two grizzlies, bobcats galore. If Old Jake comes out of Brazil alive, Mr. Newell plans to take him next autumn to Siberia to try for long-haired tigers...
...brother, who lived with his wife and little son in Cuyaba, Brazil, had a German enemy. The German hired a gunman to shoot Siemel's brother in the back; he was a long time dying. Siemel is now with his friend, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff on the Matto Grosso Expedition in Brazil, making a cinema of jungle life and taking animals alive for the Chicago Fair (TIME, Aug. 25). He was planning the cinema when he was with Duguid. He was also planning something else. Said he: "When I have finished my film I ... shall find that...
...Author. Julian Duguid, 29, was too young to fight in the War. After leaving Oxford he went vaguely to London to do something vaguely literary. He tried school-teaching for a few years, then jumped at the chance to go exploring. He is now unofficially visiting the Matto Grosso expedition in order to complete a forthcoming biography of Tiger-Man Siemel. Last month Publisher Century radioed him that Green Hell had sold out three editions (16,000 copies...