The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-26
HOLDS REMARKABLE
RECORD FOR DARING
Returns TO England After IS
Months in Wilderness of
South America.
RISKS LIFE IN WORK
Visits Hitherto Unexplored
Parts of Brazil, Chile, Peru
and Bolivia.
RISKS LIFE IN WORK
Special Cable 10 The Trlbune

LONDON, May 2j.-A. IT. Savage
Landor has Just returned tn England
from an eighteen months journey N
the unexplored parts of sonth America.
He holds the remarkable record oil
having done more exploration Of the
dangerous help yourself" kind during
his thirty-eight years of life, than any
other man living, He was the first:
To establish the sources Of the Brah-
maputra river.
10 show that no higher range Of
mountains than the Himalayas Law north
of the Brahmaputra.
To explore central Mindanao island
and the Philippines.
He found himself exploring in Tibet
at the age Of 23 He was seized bv
the Tibetans and tortured SO cruelty
that when he got back to India it was
believed that he was physically ruined.
He crossed Africa from east TO west
in its widest part $500 miles), starting
from Jibutil in French Somaliland, on
January S, 1906, and reaching Cape
Verde 864 days later,
In an interview with a correspond
ent of the International News Service.
he said:
My journey included the whole Of
the unexplored part Of Brazil between
klo and Manaos, in the great central
BASIN of the Zingu, Tapaioz and Ma
de1ra rivers, a region which the Bra
garded rs impenetrable,
Crosses Andes.
After crossing Brazil, I went over
the Andes through Peru to Lima.
thence to Cuzco and Lake Titicaca, to
examine the Inca ruins. Next I went
across Bolivia and Chile TO Autofa.
gasta. From this point to Valparaiso
by steamer and once more across South
America TO Buenos Ayres.
Il described enormous zig-zags in
order TO visit regions which Interested
me by reason that they were absolutely
unknown. With the exception of thirty
hours in the train, all travelling was
done on mule. by canoe or on foot For
about half the distance we had to cut
our own path through the forest or
proceed along the great campus or by
prairies over vast areas of absolutely
upinhabited country.
"At first the Brazilian government
took great interest in my plaus and
proposed that l should be accompanied
by Brazilians, but this fell through rs
the government was unable to find any
Brazilians who were willing to accom-
pauy me owing TO fear Of Indians and
the density Of the virgin forests, which
they declared were impossible.
~ had to run the undertaking my
self. / found it very difficult to get
The thirty men I needed, but eventually
llians, who only came as the result
If the very heavy. payment I offered
"When I left Rio in March of last
year took enough provisions to last
l. year, but owing to wastsge on the
part Of my men and loss, these even
,ually gave out, and towards the end
# tho expedition through the unex-
,lored portion Of Brazil we remained
FOR sixteen days without morsel Of
to eat.
Water but no Food.
"Happily, there was plenty Of wa
or, but there was no game, no fruit,
10 fish, and no inhabitants and neither
ny men nor myself had sufficient FOOD
o cover a sixpence.
cat this time T had with me two
arriers-my only companions-and
hey suffered even more than I did.
3oth wanted to put an end to their
and it was only with diff
ulty that + prevented them from COM
hitting suicide.
''For myself, although accustomed TO
oughing Il, I nearly died. Starvation
oh which pnrcaaA-
d by beri-beri, in the right leg, caus-
ng the atropby Of two Toes. Eventu-
lily we camo through, but in n terri
10 plight. [ lost fifty pounds in
Weight"
Mr.. Landor stated that he studied
everal new tribes, made vocabularies
{ their language. and made some In
eresting geological, geographical and
observations,
Even when travelling in uue1plored
sgious he met with no hostility on the
art Of natives anywhere, and declares
18th pride that he did not even carry
revolver or knife with him.
His Zagzag route over unexplored or
tile known country in Brazil WAS Of
bout 5000 miles, and the Brazilian
overnment was so astonished ut the
npossible that congress voted a grant
f $4,000 TO the explorer,
The expedition suffered good deal
rom the presence of insects Of all
inds, particularly mosquitoes, ante, the
inv plum, a species Of gnat, which
akes life almost unbearable, and from
lillions of bees. which, although they
o not sting, swarm over every uncov-
red portion Of the body.
Mr. Savage Landor added that this
as tho last of his twenty five years
1plorinG.