The Archive · 1924

Jesuit Priests' Find

Within a few days Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, leader_of the Third Asiatic. Expedition which last, year discovered fossilized eggs of the ancient dinosaur, will leave for Urga, Mongolia, to arrange with' Mongolian authorities for passports permitting the start of a fourth and greater expedition on April 15 of next year.

'No one can prediet what such a1 expedition will' find. But Mr. Andrews and his associates have very definitely decided what they will try to find. They are preparing for the most interesting hunt in the world—hunt for the firat mai 'Two Jesuit priests a ly slipped! into Peking last winter, and as quietly slipped out again. These priests, in Mr, Andrews' opinion, had made tone of the most notable selentifie discoveries in many a year, though the news of it is even now litre known. They had found a "kitehe midden" in Mongolia—a prehistoric} dump heap—containing stone piements proving beyond quest that a Stone Age man lived in Asi

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