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Show 1973 LEWIS RECOME FREEMAN For complainant ( R. Vol. 14, pp 2553- 2599) He resides at the Explorers' Club, New York City. of which he is a member. He was educated at the Pasadena High School and Stanford University, graduating in the latter institution in 1899. R. 2553 He is an author, explorer and World traveler. He has made considerable examination in connection with rivers. The list of rivers that he has traveled being a very long one. " A. I will stats just as briefly an I can merely by name a number of the African and Atlantic and European rivers I have been on, and perhaps mention at a little greater length those of North America, and my reasons for having studied them. " In the course of perhaps 15 or 20 years travel abros I have been on the Yangtee, through the Ichang gorge of the Yangtee; on the Salmeen and the Irrawadi in Bursa; the Ganges, the upper Indus; in Kashmir, I had been particularly interested in the use of native craft; I took every opportunity to attempt to use them sometimes with not entirely satisfactory results to myself; these little skin boats on the Indus, on the Tigris and Euphrates, the native craft there, in Africa called Kelek and Gufa. I boated by steamer or by launch pretty well to Condokoro about two thousand miles from the mouth of the Nile. I have boated for lesser lengths the Zambesi in South Africa. Of South |