The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-06
ROOSEVELT BACK
 ID CIVILIZATION
COLONEL REACHES PARA AFTER LONG TRIP THROUGH UNI
 KNOWN SECTION OF BRAZIL.
Had Many Narrow Escapes in Rapids of Newly Discovered Rivers, But Feels Fine on Return.

Para, Brazil, May 5.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt. with his son Kermit and their party, arrived here today on the steamer Dunstan from MaIaos, and were greeted on board by a repre- sentative of the governor of the state of Para, municipal authorities and prominent persOnages,
 Thanking the deputation for their reception. Colonel Roosevelt referred to the great progress made by Brazil and praised highly the work of the Brazilian commission under Colonel Rondon which made the exploring trip with him.
 Describing for the Associated Press his trip of exploration through the wilds of Brazil, Colonel Roosevelt said:
 "The expedition undertaken oriei- naly for the American Museum of Natural History has proved signal success.
 During our trip George K Cherry and Leo C. Miller, the naturalists, collected more than 2,10O birds and mammals and few reptiles, ba trachans and fish, chiefly from the regions not hitherto trayersed by any collector and many representing species hitherto unknown to science.
 The most important part of our trip was geographical IT the eXplo- ration of an unknown river we have put on the map a river nearly 1000 miles long, the existence of which is not hinted at on published maps The upper part of it's course was utterly unknown to anybody except the wiA indians along its banks, while the lower part was known to a few rub Der men only. The river takes it's rise in the high uplands of the west ern part of the state of Matto Crosse. just north of the 18th parallel of south latitude and between longitude 59 and 60 west of Greenwich.
 We embarked in latitude 12 de grees minute south and longitude 60 degrees 15 minutes west.
 "The river ran with many doub- lings and twistings almost due north into the river Madeira, where its en- trance was at about , degrees 30 min utes south latitude.
 We were sixty days in canoes. In latitude ' degrees south we passed the last rapids and reached the steamer when we were hut 36 hours from Malaos.
 Tn latitude 10 degrees 5S minutes we struck the mouth of a big affiuent following the right and in latitude 3 degrees 49 minutes south we came to the mouth of another big affluent flowing from the left.
 The Duvida river in point of vol ume is like the Rhone, the Elbe or the Hudson, but is too much broken up by rapids to be nayigable except in the lower parts. In about ' de grees 30 minutes south latitude it joins another river practically the same size flowing from the right.
 From about | degrees AS minutes to 10 degrees AS minutes south lati- tude the course of the Duyida is al- most an unbrollen series of rapids, there being no clear days run with out rapids This was the hard part of our journey.
 TWO sets of rapids were at the bottom of canyons where the river clove it's way through mountain chains.
 "Of the seven canoes with which we started, five were lost in the rapids. One of our men was drowned and two others, including Kermit, narrowly escaped death by drowning.
 Under the strain one man went mad He finally murdered one of his comrades and fled into the will derness.
 We saw no Indians but twice heard them. While Colonel Rondon, the chief of the Brazilian mission was out alone hunting his dog was killed by arrows The dogs death probably saved Colonel Rondon's life.
 'G had a severe bout of fever and while working around a canoe in the rapids bruised my leg, which de- veloped into a bad abscess but l am now practically all right
 Colonel Roosevelt and his compan- ions were so fatigued that they de- cided not to go ashore until tomor- row. when they will tour the city and attend luncheon given in their honor by the governor. On Thursday the party vii, leave for New York by NnN nf Rnrhadnne