Noted Swedish Botanist to Try China and Tibet Johan Enander, a Swedish coun-toy vicar, well over 80 years of age, who has achieved fame amongst, botanists the world over: fas the "Salix King," has attained new record of strength and durance in hunting for rare species of plants in the wilds of America. and Canada. In order to find some: new varieties for his collections, the aged explorer, who undoubtedly. is the world's foremost expert, in this special line of botany, under took an excursion into the most parts of the Gaspe in the State of Quebec. He travelled 100 kilometers by bus, then 55 kilometers by canoe on river with numerous rapids and finally climbed for many hours on his hands and knees to reach the top of a high and steep mountain The hardships endured did not seem to affect his iron physique in the least. who old clergyman now has an ambitious and strenuous program. me ahead of him. He is going to Alaska and thence as far as the Behring Strait and Kamschatka, From there he will make his way southwards along the Rocky Mountains to Los Angeles and by ship to Japan and China, to Peking.
then proposes to zo south to) Cateutta, from there up to Sikki on the northeast slope of the Hima-lavas and into Tibet, afterwards to the Persian Gulf, Bagdad and Jericho, proposing to celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem. From there he goes to Constantinople and finally by aeroplane back to sweden, His parishioners are following! the adventurous exploits of their aged shepherd with pride and some anxiety and pray for his safe return to the peaceful and pictures: que vicarage in the little parish of Lillherrdal, in the north of Sweden,
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