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From Panama came news last week of one Aime H. L. Tschiffley, 30-odd, blue-eyed, redhaired, freckled, tanned, who had arrived at Colon from Buenos Aires, whence he departed Apr. 23, 1925, with two gelding criollos (horses) of the Patagonian pampas, one of which he was trying to ride from the Argentine to New York. The second horse carried a pack. They had crossed salt deserts, the high Andes, skirted Lake Titicaca, plunged through Ecuadorian jungles (where Mr. Tschiffley, whom the South American press had dubbed "Don Quixote de la Mancha," had to blanket the animals heavily to save...
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