2 boy scouts walk 800 miles to Washington. Washington, D.C., June 16. A modern odyssey ended today with the arrival in Washington of two Venezuelan Boy Scouts, starting January 11, 1935 from Caracas they tramped 25 miles a day for two years thru jungles and swamps to be here in time for the Boy Scou
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