To-day Captain H. A.
White who has been causing much terest in local big-game hunting circles, will leave Shanghai om board the M. M. 8. D'Artagnan, for Indo-China, where the famous explorer will spend about three months collecting the "missing links" in certain family groops of Indo-China fauna, now reposing in the Field Museum in Chicago.
Captain White will be remember-led from his stop-over, in Shanghai, about one year ago, at which time hho was en route to Abyssini country with which he is well acquainted and where, through several famous expeditions, he has been able to find rare specimens t" enhance the collections in the Fiei} Museum and the American Museum. of Natural History in New York.
At present, Captain White is, travelling in company with three friends who wil be his guests at his camp in Darlae, Laos, to do some game hunting of their own, while Captain White is on his! sclentife expedition. These are Mr. Ben Finney, a San Francisco cotton broker, reported on the eve of his departure to have been married te Constance Talmadge, who came down to the' ship to see him off, and Messrs. Sidney and Morris Legendre.
In a short conversation swith a representative of this journal on. Wednesday, Captain White explained that he hoped to complete the group of some of the larger bevin found in Indo-China. He will tre through the provinces of Laos, Annam, Yunnan, and vid Tonking to the border of Szechuan, Beside the Schoenberg deer, a celebrated specimen which is thought to. be extinct, but which Capt, White has good reason to believe still exist in certain places, he will try to met water buffalo groups, banting, and the rhinoceros, Thibet Over-rated Capt, White believes that Ind China isone of the mont intereat In some respects Indo-China ig not equal to Africa for the scienti explorer. In the former country diteuit to get the natives to go far beyond their own district. and this entails constant shifting of caravans, a circumstance which frequently delays work. In Africa, fon the other hand, the natives, themselves often big' game hunters, will troke for months without any thought of abandoning the big-game expedition, and can be depended upon to give expert service and loy= salty,
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