The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-27

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 As he rose to leave, Mir. Roosevelt
 inquired about the health of Mrs. Wilson who is confined to her room, aId the president asked particularly that the Colonel convey congratula- tons to Kermit Roosevelt, who will be married next month in Madrid.
 Then they shook hands warmly and Colonel Roosevelt walked quickly to his waiting macbi""
 crowd Of several hundred per sons had gathered inside the white house grounds and as Colonel Roose- welt appeared there was a burst of hanGcapping.
 It was very pleasant social wis. it." said Colonel Roosevelt after it was over.
 On his arrival in Washington Mir. | Roosevelt went first to the Smith sonian Institution. It was his first | glimpse of the game he shot in Af- rica since it was mounted. As he en- tered the bui ding he caught sight of huge rhinoceros in a glass case.
 q shot that myself" he exclaimed. "It was rather close call. too. ker- init said, Wait a minute, dad, till l take his picture The rhino rushed at us head down I've got to shoot | protested. Bat Kermit got his pie ture and then | got the rhino"
 For an hour the Colonel wandered through the museum. There was sup posed to be reception committee but it was lost in the crowd and the tol- onel found the way himself, pausing from time to time to explain the fine points of specimens to those wAo happened to be nearest him and rat tling out scientific words which no one understood.
 From the museum Colonel Roose- welt went to the home of Senator Lodge for a talk with the senator and the British, French and Spanish am bassadors. Then he attended a din- ner given by President c. H. Gros venor of the National Geographic So ciety The lecture came next with the conference with progressive con- gressmen the last thing on the pro gram before his departure for New York
 gro his excellency, the minister of foreign affairs, Rio~de Janeiro. My. dear General Lauro Muued Wish first to express my profound acknowl odgements 10 you personally and toI the other members of the Brazilian government whose generous courtesy alone rendered possible the EXpedicae Scientifca Roosevelt-Ilonden
 T wish also to express my high ad- imitation and regard for Colonel Rol- den and his associates who have been my colleagues in this work of eXplor ation.
 "In the third pace, I wish to point l out that what we have just done was 1 rendered possible only by the hard | and perilous labor of the Brazilian ] telegraphic commission in the uneX 1 plored western wilderness of Matte | Crosse, during the last seven years. | We have merely put the cap on the | pyramid of which they had previously | laid deep and broad the foundations.
 We have had hard and some what dangerous but very successful trip. No less than six weeks were spent in slowly and with peril and eX- hausting labor forcing our way down through what seemed a literally end less succession of rapids and cataracts. For 4S days we saw no human being.
 Tn passing these rapids we lost five of the seven canoes with which we started and had to build others. One of our best men lost his life in the rapids.
 Under the strain one of the men went completely mad, shirked all his work stole, his comrades food, and when punished by the sergeant he. with cod blooded deiberation, mur dered the sergeant and fled into the wilderness.
 Colonel Ronden's dog, running aneAu or nm Wlllle uuHJluS WdS SH't by two Indians; by his death he in all probability saved the life of his mas ter. We have put on the map river about 1,500 kilometers in length rum ming from just south of the 18th de gree to north of the 50th degree and the biggest affluent of the Madeira.
 Until now it's upper course has been utterly unknown to everyone | and it's lower course although known for years to the rubber men, was ut | terly known to all cartographers It's | source is between the 12th and 18th | parallels of latitude south and be- tween longitude 8 degrees and longi- l tude 60 degrees west from Greenwich. ]
 "We embarked on it about at lati | tude 12 degrees 1 minute south and lonsitude sixty degrees is west. After that it's entire course was between 1 the 60th and 61st degree of longitude | approaching the latter most closely |