Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1912 — EXPLORES WILDS OF KOREA [ARTICLE]

EXPLORES WILDS OF KOREA

American Discoverer Finds Lakes Never Before Seen by White Man.

New York.—With three lakes and a large section of northern Korea added to his conquests as an explorer, Roy Chapman Andrews, assistant curator of the American museum, has returned from a trip around the world. Mr. Andrews penetrated the north Korean wilderness as far as the mysterious “three rivers,” never 'before seen by white men. The rivers proved to bo lakes on the top of a plateau and the explorer described them as the most beautiful he had ever seen. Their shores are of volcanic dust and the water, which is perfectly clear, contains no fish.

The Korean journey covered a distance of 500 miles and during its entise length its leader had to rely almost wholly upon the compass for his location. The main object of the expedition was the capture of certain specimens of gray whales, needed to make the collection at the museum the most complete in the world. Andrews caught three varieties, whose skeletons he shipped to the museum some time ago.