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Thus ended a sporting trip in the name of Natural Science which has had many kinds of publicity (TIME, March 16). When the brothers were trekking through perilous snowy passes in Kashmir and Thian Shan, losing ponies and porters, and living off the land with their trusty rifles as they dashed back into the Pamirs after one fruitless visit, their vicissitudes were followed as though they had been hunting the north pole instead of a species of mountain sheep unknown to our museums...
...spirit of true science was with these politico-sportsman-adventurers. venturers. On first penetrating the Pamirs, they found the Ovis poli looking rather seedy, his winter coat not yet grown. They held their fire, descended the crags, and went over into the Thian Shan mountains for the ibex, Thian Shan sheep, bear, roe, goitered gazelle and a variety of birds and small mammals. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, set off for civilization via the Caspian Sea with these politico sportsman ad-to the Pamirs put the Roosevelts to finish their work...
Some big, shaggy Tian Shan ibexes, shaggier Tian Shan sheep, still shaggier Asiatic bears, some Siberian roe (small deer), some Tahr gazelles, some goitered gazelles, and some 600 small birds and mammals, all dead and on the pack ponies of two lively brothers Roosevelt, entered the ancient city of Kashgar (eastern Turkestan) last week. "Fine success," cable those sons of a great hunter, Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt. They had come back to their base from the rugged Tian Shan mountains after losing ponies, breath and weight in the arduous passes. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie...
...Caillaux arrived at the railroad station. A fleet of automobiles and a cumbersome delegation was waiting. He took off his green felt hat and was photographed. He told reporteds: " I shall be delighted to see you always, as many times as you want to see me, but I shan't say anything worth while, I am afraid...
...Paris, Death stalked and trapped, after an operation,* His Highness Lieutenant General Mukhtar-ul-Mulk Azimul-Iktidar Rafiush Shan Wala Shikoh Mohtasham-i-Dauran Umdat-ul-Umara Maharajadhiraja Alijah Hisam-us-Saltanat Maharaja Sir Madho Rao Scindhia Bahadur Srinath Mansur-i-Za-an Fidvi-i-Hazrat-i-Malika-i-Muazzam-i-Rafi-ud-Darja-i-Inglistan, G. C. S. I., G. C. V. O., G. B. E.?otherwise the Maharaja of Gwalior and titles...