The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-06
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
 GIVES DETAILS OF TRIP OVER BRAZIL:
Gives Out First Interview of Recent Exploration Visit Through South
 American Wilds

Para, Brazil. May 5.-col.s Theodore seoseveIt. isf an interview with the Asso- ciated Press today. on board the steamer Dunstan on which he had just arrived from Manaos. gave many interesting de- tails of his exploring trip through the wilds of Brazil He said:
 '.The expedition has proved a signal success. It was undertaken originally for the American Museum of Natural His tory.
 During our trip George K. Cherry and Leo C. Miller, the naturalsts, collected more than 210o birds and mammals and a few reptiles. batrachlahs and fish, chief ly from regions not hitherto traversed by any collector and many representing spe- cies hitherto unknown to science.
 ''The most important part of our trip was geographical. In the exploration of an unknown river we have put on the map river nearly thousand miles long. the existence of which is not hinted at on published maps. The upper part of it's course was utteisy unknown to any body except the wild Indians along its banks. while the lower part was known to a few rubber men only. The river takes it's rise inl(h high uplands of the western part of the state of Matto Gros- so. just north of the thirteenth parallel of south latitude and between longitude 59 and so. west of Greenwich.
 We embarked in latitude F degrees, minute south and longitude 60 degrees, Is minutes west
 Many DOublings
 "The river ran with many doublings and twistings almost due north into the River Madeira, Where it's entrance was at about . degrees. 30 minutes south lat itude.
 We were 60 days in canoes. In lati- tude degrees south we passed the last rapids and reached the steamer when We were but 36 hours from Manaos.
 "In latitude 10 degrees, 5S minutes south, we struck the mouth of a big affluent flowing from the right and in latitude degrees. 49 minutes south, we came to the mouth of another big afflnent flowing from the left
 The Divida river in point of volume is like the Rhine, the ;clbe or the Hud son. but is too much bi oi<en up by rapid, to be navigable except in the lower parts In about.7 degrees 30 minutes south lat itude it joins another river practically the same size, flowing from the right. From about II degrees, AS minutes {, 10 degrees, 4s minutes, south latitude, thu course of the Divida is almost an un broken series of rapids, there being nc clear days runs without rapids Thi was the hard part of our journey. Two Sets of Rapids
 Two sets of rapids were at the hot tom of canyons. where the river clove it.
 way through mQuntain chains. | ''Of the seven canoes with which VI l started five were lost in the rapids. on' | of our men was drowned and two others
 including Kermit. narrowly escaped deatl l by drowning.
 l Under the strain one man went mad l He finally murdered one of his comrade. land fled into the wilderness. I We saw no Indians, but twice heart | them. While Colonel Rondon. the chic 1 of the Brazilian mission, was out alon
 hunting his dog was killed by arrows 1 The dogs death probably saved Colone l Rondon's life.
 l ''1 had a severe bout of feyer and whil' working around canoe in the rapids bruised my leg, which developed into [ bad abscess but l am now practically al | right