Using Buffered Reader And Columns To Read In Two Strings?

I'm making a tree of contacts with people's names as one string and their numbers as another. I need to read that in from a .dat that is set up to have two columns, across from the names are the numbers, so i have to read that in, but I'm not sure how. Here is what I have:

Tree<String, String> tree = new Tree<String, String>();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/Users/katedess/Desktop/animals.dat"));
String read;
while((read = br.readLine()) != null) {
tree.add(read);
}
br.close();
}