The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-27

then down into the Amazon hut that
he thought ne had something which
would apVeD. 60 me much more. that
the telegraph commission, which had
Heen working in the western portion
Of BraziI has is working around shere
Indicating or the map. had found
that the best existing maps that is
the maps furnished me when [ went
dawn as the best modern maps. the
maps drawn by fellows of the Royal
Geaefa pHiCai society, Wera equally
striking examples Of he fact that
those maps were totally wrong that
the whole region would have to be re-
mapped after the discoveries of the
Topographic communication and that
they had found the sources Of two
rivers running north. which went Il hey
='ittl ~if"t~ know where afte of ti7eee
rivers The smaller, VS. called the pine
apple The other and larger one was
called the D1hltas, the river Of iouHt
because they did not know where il
went out, and he told me that the
head Of the Geographic commission.
Colonel EondoH, who had for twenty
NNe years been cngaged in the work
"f exploring that wilderness of Brazil.
would. If / desired, accom- any me
down ihat river, and see where ii came
out and he said Now. we Will he
delighted TO have YOU do II. but Of
course you must understand Wa can
not tell you anything of what will
happen and there may be some sur
prSes not nacc ssarily pleasant said.
Well. by George, that is Just what ]
would like - do. to mak@the try. and
see what would happen down that
river -
At this flash Of the real Roosevelt
the audience applauded uproariously.
The colonel continued
And now here | want with all the
emphasis possible. and [ wish that
the Brazilian ambassador were here
To report TO his government what
say want with all the emphasis
possible 10 attest that everything that
We did this year was sequel to. and
was conditioned upon, what the tele-
graphic commission Of Brazil. under
Colonel Rondon and his associates
had done during the preceding seven
wears. We would not have known of
the existence of the head waters OF
this river; We could not have crossed
the highland wilderness AT all If it
had not hocn for the work Of that
commission. All that we did was TO
put the cap on the pyramid of which
they had laid deep and broad the
foundations. and ! greatly wish that
This body would pay some recogni-
item. would give some recognition. to
The really remarkable work that has
been done Ivy Colonel Rondon and his
associates Of the brazilian Geographic
commission during the last seven
Yea fs~- work which, from the geo.
graphic standpoint. and from tho
standpoint Of the development OF the
natural resources of the nation. is as
noteworthy AS ANYTHING that has been
accomplished during the same length
!. No,
have had not too much recognition
IN their own country prophet is
not without honor YOU know save in
his own country daughter and APP
piauSe-) They have had practically
40 recognition abroad. If their work
had been followed even sket chiIv it
would have been impossible to have
the kind of map which represents the
best modern type of map, and is so
fun OF faults
" 1t Is almost Impossible for me to
show YOU on these standard maps
what I IN. the maps are SO prepos-
teronsly wrong. For instance. these
are the headwaters of the Tapajoz dc
Jnruano. They have practically no
reference To the actual position Of
hte river For instance, here Is what
is called the Ctcno Toisso. and here
IL the .Iuruano. 1t is not on the Rio
jHruano at all II is on the Tapajoz
the river that Mr.. Fiala descended
There are two rivers close together
the Sacare and the Tapajoz. that is
within ten miles of each other. each
of which has a waterfall about the
size of the falls of the Yellowstone.
in one case about so feet high, and
in tho other case about $50 feet high
of which we took numerous photo
graphs
There is not hint of the exist
enee Of these waterfalls. nor as far
as can find Of those rivers on the
map, The Juruano is not there. II
is a number of DAYS tourney further