Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-06-03
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COLONEL ROOSEVELT GIVES
GRAPHIC STORY OF PERILs
zE in WlLDs OF BRAZIL. u.s.
/. ALL THE. MAPS ARE WRONG
K Reassert His Claims to Discovery Of
River Duvida In Address Before
& National Geographic soclety---RIver
3 10 as Long as the EIbe. q, 4 .S..
$i Washington, May 81. - Theodore
Roosevelt last night gave an extended
account Of his discovery Of the Duvida
river, OF. river Of doubt, before the Ma
tional Geographic society In this city.
He declared that the river Is as long
as the Elbe and is not shown on any
map. As q result of his explorations,
Colonel Roosevelt declared that all Of
the maps OF the country he traversed
are wrong. 5I$ M: - 4
III Mr.. Rooseyelt's address was in part
as follows: 5 ! RI sf
1 N Hardly ever can you do anything
I OF note, except by building on what
4 has been done by your predecessors'
/. work. Columbus could not have dis
4 covered America, II IT had not been
{ for the deeds Of Portugue and to q
less extent OF Spanish sailors, from
h the days Of Prince Henry the Naviga-
y tor on. Peary could not have discov-
erred the North pole II there had not
been for generation men who had been
4 pushing far northward the limits Of
{ knowledge of the polar regions. N 81 n
I; TO take an Infinitely less import
7. ant instance, I could have done moth
! ing in South America II It had not
I been for the work done by scores Of
other men during the years that
& passed, and especially during the last
seven or eight years. h.
$s; rs Here Ii the Amazon river. It, was
descended and discovered for the first
time nearly four centuries ago by the
early Spanish explorers, whose feats
were 30 phenomenal that they make
(, all the work OF all Of us who have
h anything on that river today seem
child 8 play In comp arison. ] say that,
meaning It literally .sss- . MA; Il n II
The people who went up and down
v the Amazon speedily discovered the
d mouths OF Ia number OF. rivers One,
two and three centuries elapsed before
they discovered anything about those
rivers except the mouths, and In the
case ;of the river. OF which ! am going
to speak what they did say about the
4 mouth was entirely wrong. II 3. &. & \:
80 did not go down to: South Amer
Y lea with any intention Of making such
/ an exploration as this, ii n:
I'll when 60 of on a trip i do not like
4: to make. pictures for: myself of what
4, am going to do, because I do not
4 know, but I had supposed that our trip
would chiefly be q zoolog ical trip, and
4 i went primarily for the American
Il Museum Of Natural History with that
& end In view. .s
when I got to Rio gJaneiro, Il Mr..
/, Lauro Mueller. who visited us 4 last
4 year, and who Ia the minister Of for
y eign affairs Of Brazil. told me that, OF
& course, they would help me to do what
A I wished, which was to COUP the Para
4 quay and then down into the Amazon
{ but that he thoug ht he had some thine
I which would appeal to me much
more; that the telegraphic commits
u sion which had been working In the
western portion OF Brazil had found
I that the best existing maps were total
ss$Sly5 wrong, that the whole region would
& have to be remapped after the discov
4 cries OF the, Geographic commission
4 ana that they had found the sources
II OF two rivers running north, which
[ went they did not know where.
One OF those rivers. the smaller
was called the Pineapple. The other
II and larger one, was caller the, Du
vida. the River OF Doubt, because they
did not know where Invent out HI
told me that the head OF the tele
II graphic commission, Colonel Rondon
VI Who had for Is years been engaged
II IN & the work sof} exploring that s3fwilt
IS western wildern ess OF Brazil, would, 4
u 8desired, accompany me, down tina
Il 4 river and see where It came out, AM
he said q {. E:55{; " III lt 5I3
I'D. s5b IS Nov, we will be delighted to hav,
III you do 1T, but, OF course, you mus
nderstand, We cannot tell you any
thing OF what will happen, and there
will be some surprises not necessarily
Z pleasant. 1 said. Well, by George
.s8s that is just what ! would like to do
4 to; make the try and see what woillt
4 happe en- down that river IS;
81 And now here 1 want, with all the
8 emphasis possible sand wish tina
4 the Brazilian ambassador were here
to report to his government what J
say want with all the emphasis pos
n sible to attest that everything that we
did this year was sequel to ant
II was conditioned upon what the tele
graphic commission of Brazil, under
Colonel Rondon and his associates
4 had done during the preceding sever
years. e & s. Z. ~ 3.5E,z r. s,sy
n! Vi .t.We would not have known the ex
\ 1stence Of the headwaters Of this river
We could not have crossed the high
land wilderness at all If it had moi
been for the work of that commission
All that we did was to put the cap or
I the pyramid Of which they had lait
y deep and broad the foundations.
II greatly wish that this body would
Il pay some recognize would give
some recognition the really re
Il markable work that has been done By
Colonel Rondon and his associates Of
& the Brazilian Geographic commission
4 during the last seven, years-worl