Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-29

he said, because they are so prepos-
terously wrong"
He presented a letter he wrote to
DR.. Muller after he left the jungle, de-
scribing the trip.
Letter to Muller.
ITO His Excellency, the Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, Rio de Janeiro.
MY Dear General Lauro Mueller:
Il wish first to express my profound
acknowledgements to you personally
and to the other members Of the Bra
lillian government whose generous
courtesy alone rendered possible the
expedicae scientifica Roosevelt Rondol.
wish also to express my high admira-
tion and regard for Colonel Rondon
and his associates who have been my
colleagues in this work Of exploration.
that what we have just done was rem
dered possible only by the hard and
perilous labor Of the Brazilian tele-
graphic commission in the unexplored
during the last seven years.
I'VE have merely put the cap on the
pyramid Of which they had previously
laid deep and broad the foundations.
We have had hard and somewhat
dangerous, but very successful trip.
Six Weeks Of Peril.
mo less than six weeks were spent
in slowly and with peril and exhaust
i've labor forcing our way down through
what seemed a literally endless sue
cession Of rapids and cataracts. For
forty-eight days we saw no human
being. In 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
cold -blooded deliberation murdered the
sergeant and fled into the wilderness.
Colonel Rondon's dog, running
ahead Of him while hunting, was shot
by two Indians; by his death he in all
probability saved the life Of his mas
ter.
I'VE have put on the map a river
about 1,500 kilometers in length, run
ming from just south Of the 18th de-
gree to north Of the 5th degree, and
. tl,a lai,
Was Utterly Unknown.
Until now it's upper course has
been utterly unknown to every one and
it's lower course although known for
years to the rubber men utterly un-
known to all photographers. It's source
is between the 18th and 18th parallels
Of latitude south, and between longi-
tude SO degrees and latitude 60 de-
grees west from Greenwich. We en-
barked on it about latitude IL degrees,
a minute south, and longitude so de-
grees, Is west. After that it's entire
course was between the Goth and 61st
degree Of longitude approaching the
latter most closely about in latitude 8
degrees, Is minutes.
THE first rapids were at Navarite,
in II degrees, A minutes, and after
that they were continuous and very
difficult and dangerous until the rapids
named after the murdered sergeant
Peishan, in II degrees, IL minutes.
"At II degrees, % minutes, it receiv-
ed the Rio Kermit from the left. At II
degrees, 90 minutes the Marciano Avila
entered it from the right. At IL de-
grees, 18 minutes, the Taunay entered
the left. At 10 degrees, So minutes, the
Cardoza entered from the right. At 10
degrees, "a minutes, we encountered
the first rubber men. The Rio Brancho
entered from the left at degrees, 38
minutes. We camped at s degrees, 40
minutes or approximately the bound
ary line between the Matte Crosse and
Amazonas. The confluence Of the Ari-
puana, which entered from the left,
was degrees, "a minutes. The mouth
where it entered the Madeira was in
degrees, 80 minutes. The stream we
have followed down Is that which rises
farthest away from the mouth, and its
general course is almost due north.
MY dear sir, 1 thank you from my
heart for the chance to take part in
this great work Of exploration.
with high regard and respect, be-
lieve me,
Very sincerely yours,