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...Steffanson who remarked that to an explorer adventures are a mark of incompetence. "Three Kingdoms of Indo-China" is the chronicle of an expedition that spent six months in one of the least known but most glamorous corners of the world and except for the tragic death of one of its members by malaria, the experiences of those who undertook it were exciting events rather than adventures in the derogatory sense...
...successful scientific foray, this volume is not a handbook or history of the country. But as an absorbing narrative, it does succeed in giving us much of the flavor of a land where alarm clocks lie buried with emperors and it is good form to have stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several...
...result of the combined scientific expeditions to French Indo-China of two Harvard graduates, Theodore Roosevelt '08, present Governor of the Philippines, and Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. '26, assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, a new book entitled "Three Kingdoms of Indo-China" will be published on March 1 by the Thomas Y. Crewell Company...
...moustaches which adorned the lip of President Theodore Roosevelt, there is considerable humor in this completely serious statement by Dr. W. II. Osgood of the Field Museum in Chicago concerning the maniacs Roosevelt, or barking door, one of the new species found by the recent Coolidge-Roosevelt expedition to Indo China...
...fire broke out at Le Havre aboard the 22-year-old France, recently withdrawn from trans-Atlantic service by the French Line as "too old." Le Havre firemen dashed aboard at 2:30 a. m., put out the blaze after two hours of smart work. At Saigon in French Indo-China the French liner Angkor was held up by a cracked propeller blade...