Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-02-07
Into an Unknown Land.

Three scientists from Harvard and
a physician, who are going to spend
three years in the only part of the
South American continent still mark
ed "une1plored" on the maps. sailed
for Colon on the steamship Panama.
DR.. w c Farsbee, instructor in an
thropoIogy at Harvard, heads the eI-
petition, and the Peabody Museum 10
Boston sponsors the undertaking.
With DR.. Farabee there sailed two
assistants, L D DeMilhau and ]. W.
Hastings, both recent graduates Of
Harvard and connected with the an
thropological department of the uni
versity. DR.. Edward F. Horr, who
is to act as the attending physician of
the party, and Mrs. Farabee also went
along. Mrs. Farabee will not VEN
ture far into the interior, but intends
to stay at Arequipa, Peruvian in
terror town, while her husband is alb
sent on the other side of the Andes.
The party of Harvard scientists
hope to penetrate from the west the
unexplored country lying about the
headwaters of the Amazon and Parana
rivers, gathering chronological data
from the Indian tribes which inhabit
this wilderness of jungle and noun
tain. Over a territory roughly 1000
miles long and from 800 to 500 miles
in width, which lies just at the con-
junction of the boundaries of Peru,
Bolivia AMI Brazil, no white man, SO
far as is known, has ever passed
There are no maps of the territory and
nothing of Its nature is known to the
geographers 1t IL into this "no man g
land that the Harvard expedition
hopes to make it1 way.
Before they cross the boundaries Of
the unknown land DR.. Farabees par.
tv will have to climb the Andes with
guides and a pack train, Then they
will descend to the great plain on the
east. Here the last trail to civiliz4.
ton will be lost, and to canoes the
four men will trust themselves to pen
citrate the strange land and return
safely with knowledge of its secrets.
The trip will begin in earnest when
the party leaves Arequipa in the in
terror of Peru and with guides makes
the ascent of the Andes over the trail
charted by the Inca Mining Company,
whose properties lie far up on the
SUBMITS of the mountains. The low
est pass is 1900 feet high and the
Journey over this road is one OF very
extreme difficulty. DR.. Farabee said
yesterday that when he goes over the
pass 1t will be for three years stay on
the other side. He hopes to make
several trips into the unexplored land J.,
returning each time with specimens
and to get fresh supplies.
Practically new field of ethnologi
cal and anthropological investigation
will lie open beyond the ADdean trail.
There Is a race of Indians whose pres
ence has only been limited at hereto
fore by the reports Of the Peruvian
natives of the western side of the
mountains. To collect war imple-
ments, domestic utensils and data on
the tribal and individual lives of the
natives and to gather information
about the land they live in will be
the object of the several trips across
the mountains.
DR.. Farabee carries with him two
letters which will be of value as long
as he is within the zone OF civilization
He said yesterday that President
Roosevelt had written him to give bis
hearty Endorsement of the object o.
the expedition and to wish him success
He also bears with him a letter from
Secretary Root to all the United
States representatives in the region
through which the expedition may