Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-27
ROoseveIt's Tale
 of Adventure
ADI MESSED NATIONAL GEO.
 GRAPHICAL SOCIETY
TELLS OF NEW RIVER
In Letter to, Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Declares Entire Course Unknown to Photographers, and Upper Course Unknown Even to Rubber" Men.

to "Rubber Men.
 Washington, May 2s-Proclaimed tonight before a great audience of sci entists from many cities as the dis coverer of river in South America one. thousand miles long, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt assured the Ma tfonal Geographic Society that he had put this river on the map and chal- lenged all the cartographers in the world to disprove his achievement.
 The colonel had appeared before a Washington audience on a previous occasion as an explorer, but never as an dtscoverer and he was cheered to the echo as he declared that the car tographers and geographers of all na- tions were wrong in their maps of the wilds of Brazil wherein he found and traced the "Duvida River or. as now more familiarly known, "The River of Doubt"
 attempted to dispute his discovery. tracing on a blackboard with a piece or chalk the river of his finding, he declared emphatically:
 T say We put it on the map and mean what I say. No map has ever yet shown this river. Scientists have said we might have traversEd the River Tapajose or the River Madeira. put the fact is that some of our par ty went down one river and some went down the other while we went down a river in between them which no map maker ever saw. I can direct any man where to find this river and rivers stay put, so that the discovery we have made may be verified"
 The colonel described in detail the nardships of his trip into the Brazil ian wilds and particularly the hard SnlDG endured in ox-;e los or The River of Doubt" In the upper part of the river, he said. the rapids were so severe that it required 42 days for the party to traverse one degree from 11.45 south to 10.45 south. During that hazardous trip they lost nearly all their food and belongings. We were forced to eat monkeys to eke out our rations," declared the col onel. Don't sfudder for I assure you that after this experience you might leave me in the monkey house with out my making any mistake"
 There were many Indians in the onel said
 They were seemingly very. tinnid and in some cases hostileo he added T believe they were hostile only be- cause they were tirnid. but it is al- man if he is afraid Of you as if he Killed you because he disliked you..
 At the close of his statement. Col onel Roosevelt offered to answer any questions which anyone in the audi ence might ask. After a pause. dur pounded. he said:
 "No questions are asked me to my
 Colonel Roosevelt also read the fol- lowing letter. addressed to the min ister or foreign affairs. Rio Janiero:
 My dear General Lauro Muller:-I wnn nrst to cypress my profound and to the other members of the Bra zfhan government whose generous courfesy alone rendered possible the EHpedicas Scientinca Roosevelt Ron don wish also to express my high tdmlration and regard for Colonel been my colleagues in this work of expioration- In the third place I wish to point out that what we have just done was rendered possible only by the hard and peri1ous labor of the Brazilian Telegraphic Commission in the unexplored western Wilderness of f Matte Crosse during the last seven years. We have merely put the cap on the pyramid of which they had previously laid deep and broad the Foundations. We have had a hard and somewhat dangerous but very suc- cessful trip. No less than six weeks were spent in slowly and with peril and exhausting labor forcing our way down there what seemed a literally endless succession of rapids and cata- racts. For %S 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.
 Sergeant Was Murdered.
 Under the strain one of the men work, stole his comrades' food and when punished by the sergeant he. with cold blooded deliberation mur- dered 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 master. We have put on the man a. river about 1900 kilometers in length running from just south of the 18th degree to north of the 9th degree and the biggest affiuent of the Madeira. Until now its 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 cartographers. It's source is between the 18th and 18th parallels of latitude south, and be- tween longitude 59 degrees and longi- ture 60 degrees west from Greenwich We embarked on it about at latitude 1z degrees 1 minute south and Iongi- tude SO degrees IS west. After that it's entire course was between the 6Oth and 61st degrees of longitude ap- preaching the latter most closely about in latitude degrees 15 min utes. The first rapids were at Maya rite in II degrees A minutes and af- ter that they were continuous and very difficult and dangerous until the rapids named after the murdered ser geant Peichan in II degrees 12 min utes. At Il degrees % minutes it re- ceived the Rio Kermit from the left. At II deerees 22 minutes the Marciane AviIa entered 1t from the right. At II degrees 1s minutes the Taunay en- tered from the left. At 10 degrees 5s minutes the Cardoza entered from the right At 10 degrees 24 minutes we encountered the first rubber men. The Rio France entered from the left at 8 degrees 3s minutes We camped at $ degrees 70 minutes or approximately the boundary line between the Matte Crosse and Amazonas. The confluence with the Aripuana, which entered from the left was in degrees 34 min utes. The mouth where it entered the Madeira was in degrees % minutes. Tho gtreon Pe hGve followed down ts