Arizona republican., 1904-10-25
The Work of a Woman Explorer.

4 woman completed in South Amer ica last year q series Of geographical explorations undertaken at the cost of the state of Para, Brazil. Between Nov. 20. 1900, and Jan. 12, 1903. she made three journeys. and for nineteen months was in the depths of the un- explored sections of that state. Her de- scription of these travels has now been handsomely printed in Paris. a volume of about 150 folio pages being given to each of the three journeys.
 The explorer is the widow of Henri A. Coudreau, who was known for twen- ay years before his death as a man peculiarly adapted for going into any unknown region and bringing back just the information required by govern ments and rioLeer settlers as to the lay of the land. its resources. climate and people. He made his fame doing this sort of work for France in French Guiana. All geographers know his books.
 h 1895 the state of Para invited Cou- ! dreau to study for the government the ] economic aspects of some of the large | Amazon tributaries The city of Para being the collecting and distributing J point for most of the rubber of South America. the state wished to know ev- cry place where rubber could be found and how to get it. Before his death Coudreau wrote three volumes on the branches Of the Amazon he had expior- cd.
 In the last years of his work Mrs. Coudreau usually accompanied her
 husband and came to be his most valu-
 able assistant on his expeditions. She
 even learned how to make surveys and
 plot route maps She was skilled in photography and learned just how and
 what to observe to get the information
 desired by the Para government. A
 short time after her husbands deatT
 she went to the Para authorities with
 this proposal:
 Let me carry on for you the explora- tions in which my husband was engag ed. Perhaps I cannot equal him, but [ know his methods, have plenty of en ergy and know you will approve thu , results"
 The government fitted her out for he
 first independent expedition. The fiel' is vast and there will be plenty of worl l in 1t for Mme. Coudreau, if she shoul' Q continue her present career. P The Amazon and it's big afluent
 have hundreds of smaller tributarie
 which attract little attention on tn maps. Some of them are not found ol . the best maps made. But if you SC e a photograph of one of them it look h like a broad. big river. as it really if f and it leads to rich resources and th , camps of wild tribes.
 The government of Para desired th T thorough exploration of some of thes II rivers, and this was the task assigne e tc Mime. Coud1 eau. She was told e ascend the, Rio Curua first and SC
 what she could find.
 Tn her books she plunges right int
 the story of her work, with few or r 'I details concerning her companions C Is equipment But we know that when - steamer left her and her little part - at the mouth of the Curua river tn T lady was dressed in the garments (
 a man. All the people she meets whe on her expeditions think she is a ma 'r unless some of her followers talk mol g. than they are expected to do. ST l- would not dream of going on these e h petitions in any other clothing tha
 that worn ty men, for skirts wou
 be utterly absurd for the purposes ' pioneer travelling in such country. D. A marked characteristic of the woma