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American trip. 1t appeared that he had
made up his mind that he would take it
himself, and had actually come on to see Mr.
Chapman to find out if the latter could rec
commend naturalist to go with him; and
he at once said he would accompany me.
Chapman was pleased when he found out
that we intended to go up the Paraguay
and across into the valley of the Amazon,
because much of the ground over which we
were to pass had not been covered by col
lectors He saw Henry Fairfield Osborn,
the president of the museum, who wrote me
that the museum would be glad to send I'M
der me a couple of naturaists, who, with
my approval, Chapman would choose.
The men whom Chapman recommended
were Messrs George K. Cherrie and Leo
c. Miller. gladly accepted both The for
mer was to attend chiefly to the ORTHODOXY
and the latter to the mammalogy of the ex-
petition; but each was to help out the other.
Veterans of Tropical Forests.
No two better men for such a trip could
have been found. Both were veterans of
the tropical American forests Miller was
a young man, born in Indiana, an enthusi-
astic naturalist with good literary as we'll
as scientific training. He was at the time in
the Guiana forests, and joined us at Barba-
dos. Cherrie was an older man, born in
Iowa, and at the time citizen Of Vermont
He had a wife and six children Mrs
Cherrie had accompanied him during two
or three years of their early married life in
his col Letting trips along the Orinoco. Their
second child was born when they were in
camp couple of hundred miles from any
white man or woman. One night few
weeks later they were obliged to leave a
camping place where they had intended to
spend the night, because the baby was fret
full and its cries attracted a jaguar, which
growled nearer and nearer in the twilight
until they thought it safest once more to
put out into the open river and seek a new
resting place.
Cherrie had spent about twenty-five
years collecting in the American tropics.
Like most of the field naturalists l have
met, he is an Unusually efficient and fearless
man; and willy-nilly he had been forced at
times to vary his career by taking part in
instructions. Twice he had been behind
the oars III consequence, on one occasion
spending three months in prison Of a GER
tain South American state, expecting each
day to be taken out and shot In another
state he had, as an interlude to his ornitho-
logical pursuits, followed the career of a
gun-runner, acting as such off and on for
two and half years. The particular revo-
lutionary chief whose fortunes he was fol-
lowing finally came into power, and Cherrie
immortalized his name by naming new
species of ANTITRUST after him-a touch
that struch me as delightful because of its
practical combination of those not normally
kindred pursuits, ornithology and gun-run-
ming
Cherrie was just the right man to give
us practical advice about the particular
kind of trip we intended to take
In Anthony Fiala, former arctic ex-
plorer, we found an equally good man for
assembling equipment and taking charge
of the actual handling of the expedition At
the time Fiala was with New York mer-
camille house. In addition to his four years
in the arctic regions, Fiala had served in the
New York squadron in Porto Rico during