EXPLORER’S TALE OF ADVENTURE
DIMINUTIVE RACE OF PEOPLE FOUND. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] (Received May 28, 1.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. Professor YY'ollaston, who last year left on a tour of exploration m Central Africa, lias informed Reuter that ho found at a height of 5000 feet oil Mount Car stones a friendly folk of diminutive stature. He reached an altitude of 15,000 feet, but ice and dense fog compelled him to retreat. Hia canoe ca]>sized in the TTtakwa River, and Wollaston had a narrow escape, and ho lost his .instruments and three months of his diaries.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3943, 28 May 1913, Page 5
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97EXPLORER’S TALE OF ADVENTURE Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3943, 28 May 1913, Page 5
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