The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06
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~ possibly in the world, has
claimed another band of
victims; again the Pilcomayo river
has proved itself deserving of the title
given to it by the natives of Paraguay,
Argentina and Bolivia-River of
Death.
The last victims of the unknown
place are the famous Italian explorer,
Guido Boggiano, and his party. From
Asuncion in Paraguay the news has
reached American geographers that
the party has been officially pronounce
ed dead
With the Staying of Boggiano, Gran
Chaco, triumphantly keeping it's Sc
cret, has successfully defied five ma
tions-France, Spain, Germany, Italy
and Paraguay. Each of them sent its
best explorers and to none did their
men return alive
Creveaux of France, Ibarreta of
Spain, -Lista of Paraguay, Sirvent of
Germany and BOggiano of Italy all
started from the borders, dived into
the primeval forests of FL Gran Chaco,
reached the Pilcomayo river and dis
appeared forever.
No man has gone in and emerged
alive. What turks in its twilight for
ests that Stays so surely?
Look on the map of South America.
Between the Tropic of Capricorn and
latitude 80 south, and between Iongi-
tude 5S and 65 west, is a patch that is
left almost entirely blank That patch
contains more than $4,000 square miles
about which man knows nothing.
1t is the terra incognita of the
American continent
Guido Boggiano.
Five months ago Guido Boggiano
started from Asuncion with an expe-
dition of six Indians and a peon to fol-
low the path that so many others had
taken before him and that had led
them to death. Friends had urged
him in vain to desist. Local officials
mad added their warnings without eff
feet. Men heard from him only once
after he had left civilization, as he
passed through Puerto Cascade. Then
came week of silence, broken by the
arrival of two of the expedition. Even
in that one week hardships and ter
rors had become too much for them
and they had fed toward settled coun-
try They reported that the line of
march had been through constant
dangers and through constant mys-
terry. Unseen enemies had attacked
hNT don
animals had prowled on their trail
Unseen things had terrified the Indiar
helpers, so that even then BoggianC
was finding it almost impossible tc
force them on.
That is the last that has been heard
by man of Guido Boggiano and hi:
party. A month ago an expedition un
der local officials started out from Pu.
erto Cascade to search for news of the
lost men. 1t penetrated only a few
miles into the unknown land-not ia
enough to find even a trail, but fa1
enough to learn that there was nc
doubt that the entire expedition hat
been destroyed, presumably by tn,
fierce, practically unknown TOBIAS In
dams.
This makes the second expedition t.
vanish within a year.
How Creveaux Died.
First to meet fate in Gran Chac
was DIR. CreveauX. He started int
the interior in 1886 with large an,
well armed party, fired with wonderful
stories of strange, tall, savage mer
strange wild beats of huge size and
profusion of new orchids and othe
fantastic plants and creatures tina
We're said to be in abundance there
He forced his way for several month
through the wilderness along the Pill
comayo until he penetrated into tn
TOBIAS country, near the Bolivian
boundary, where the expedition, wor]
and thinned out by constant fightin
and hardships. fell into the hands o
the Indians, who suddenly appeare,
from all quarters and massacred all.
The fate of the Creveaux expedition
only served to increase the eagernes
of explorers to tear the veil that hi
the unknown land.
And that eagerness next was to cos
the life of one of the most successful
and earnest and daring explorers tina
ever was in South America. He wa
Ramon Lista, to whom the world to
day owes much of its knowledge o
Paraguay, Argentina and Patagonia