Letters, Jul. 14, 1941

Mrs. Moore's Trek

Sirs:

The article "Tooks Takes a Trip" [TIMe,, June 9] interested me very much. This article concerned the trip made by Richard Tewkesbury through the Panama jungle to Colombia.

To quote the article—"There an engineer told him that the jungle section to the south had a reputation worse than any bush country in Africa; that a dozen explorers had tried, but none had gotten through. ..." I would like to correct part of this engineer's statement.

In April 1937, my husband, James A. Moore, my brother, Henry A. Dyer, "Jungle Jim" Price...

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