Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible that some vague tradition of the extreme sacredness of this temple has come down to the modern Indians, who resented our entering this place more than anything we did. This interesting fact came out during a cross-examination to which we were subject near the end of our trip by General Francisco May military commander of all the Indians of the territory of Quintana...
...final resources for a flight to see if land exists between Point Barrow and the Pole. In Spitsbergen, the young Virginian, Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland and search for unknown land where Explorers Peary and MacMillan each thought they descried it on different occasions years ago. Most formidable and promising of all, the dirigible Norge lurked...
...trip takes up first to Liberia where we will go into the practically unexplored interior. We are counting on the friendly influence of the chief of one of the interior tribes, who is a Harvard graduate, to aid us in carrying on our work among a people who are usually bostile to foreigners...
...little more than half way through the continent we take a long trip on foot to the north and then proceed east north of Victoria Nyanza, finally coming out on the coast at Monabassa...
...Strong's companions, are all members of the University. Dr. George C. Shattuck, Assistant Professor of Tropical Medicine, has been associated with Dr. Strong in the Philippines, Serbia, and on their recent trip to the Amazon. Dr. Joseph Bequaert, Assistant Professor of Entomology, was a few years ago entomologist of the Belgian Commission on Sleeping Sickness which spent some time in Africa. Dr. G. M. Allen, is a lecturer on zoology at the University and also secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History. He has spent some time in British East Africa and has become familiar with the fauna...