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Last week the brothers Roosevelt (Theodore Jr. and Kermit) called down from "the roof tree of the world" that they had got what they clambered up for. Their cable from Turkestan began: "Have had good success with the Ovis poli [Marco Polo sheep]. Have excellent group of four rams, besides several other specimens for the Field Museum. Are going straight to Srinagar;" that is, starting home...
...They, the hunters, with a small, light-geared party would dash once more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward, whither they had started last month but turned back when they found that the special object of their arduous climb to "the rooftree of the world," the fabulous ovis poli (Marco Polo sheep), was shedding his summer coat and in no fit condition to be shot and brought home to the Field Museum (Chicago...
...were leaving next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose to draw deadly bead upon the Ovis Poli (sheep ancestor) and other fauna for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME...
...sure, to Walter Johnson. Thirty-two thousand fans applauded. The Washington season opened. Score: Washington 10, New York 1. ¶The President appeared and spoke through the DeForest Phono-film (see "SCIENCE). ¶Accompanied by Editor Col. George Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge went to a musical review at Poli...
...descriptions brought back by Marco Polo several centuries ago furnished the first account of that strange land. The animals sought are the Ovis Poli, or great sheep described by Polo, the yarklandstag, the ibex of Tian Shan, the goitered gazelle, the long-haired tiger, and the markhor (large goat...