Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, naturalist and explorer, is believed to be lost in the East African jungles on her way to the Abyssinian frontier. She entered a region never before explored by a white person, with a party of 60 natives, to study jungle life for the Brooklyn museum.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 7,1925
To see a photo and a drawing of Delia Akerley, go to: newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1925-03-07/ed-1/seq-1/
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