The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-05-27
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known beyond their mouths for cen.
turtles. aid the Colonel Even What
they knew OF the mouth % the river
! an SONG 20 speak about. was al
wrong"
III. Colonel said be had not rone
20 south America 10 discover rvsrE.
but on a purely znolorfcal mission.
but that DR.. Muller. Brazilian minis.
ter OF foreign Affairs had inspired him
70 seek out the now famous River
OF Doubt
Or Muller told me- Mt Roosevelt
declared. that a. q result Of the
work OF the Brazilian T~eleFraphic
commission IN western Brazil an the
maps In existence OF that part OF the
country would have TO b. Changed
some OF these maps" the Colonel
continued with a twiakle were drawn
by fellows Of the Royal Geographical
Society and they are all wrong too
Muller showed M that the whole re-
zion would have 10 b. remapped lie
said the telegraphic commission had
discovered the sources Of two new
rivers. but they kncw not where they
went. one OF these was the river OF
Doubt. and DR. Muller asked me- why
! did not investigate r.. I told him
by George. that's what I would like
10 do"
Asserting that he made up his min
10 undertake this task. the Colonel
continued
Everything we did was based on
what the telegraphic commission OF
Brazil under Colonel Rondon had done
during the past seyen years. All We
did was TO cap the pyramid OF which
they laid. broad and firm. the founda-
tons"
Colonel Roosevelt urged that tho
Geographic society recognize in some
way the work Of Colonel Rondon and
h telegraphic commission. adding.
ito at home in Brazil
Colonel Roosevelt criticised the
all wrong"
1t is almost impossible for me- 10
show you what | did on these maps.
ne sand. because they are so pre-.
posterously rong."
Describes the Trip.
lie presented a letter which no
wrote TO DIR. Muller after he left he
lows In part.
My dear General Lauro Muller.
j Wish hrst 10 express my profound
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to you personally
and TO the other member Of the Brazii.
ian government whose generous cour-
tesy alone rendered possible the FX.
pedlcae Scientitca Rooseveit-Rondon.
wish also TO express my high regard
for Colonel Rondon and his associates
who have been my c~ollearuos In mis-
work OF exploration. In the third place
wish TO point out that what we have
gust done was rendered possible only
by the hard and perilous labor Of the
brazilian ~telegraphic commission in
the uneNplOred western wilderness ~
MHffn IEnEEn hHHWHnn WhA H. ...--
years. We have merely put the can on
the pyramid of which they had pre-
yiously laid deep and broad the foun-
d%ations. We have had a hard and
somewhat dangerous but very success
ful trip. No less than six weeks were
spent in slowly. and with peril and eX-
hausting labor. forcing our way
through what seemed "A literally --d-
less succession OF rapids and cataracts.
for forty-eiEht days We saw no human
being. In passing these rapids we lost
five OF the seven canoes with which
!. We started and had 10 build others.
one OF best men lost his life in the
rapids. Under the strain one of the
men went completely mad. shirked all
his work. stole his comrades food and
when punished by tho sergeant he
with cold blooded d~eliberation muir.
dered b q sergeant and fed into the
wilderness.
Saved His Life.
Col Rondon's dog. running ahead OF
him while hunting. was shot by two
Indians; by his death he In all prob.
ability saved the life OF his master
We have Put on the map q river about
100 kilometers in length. running
from just south OF the 18th degree "a
north of the 9Th degree. and the big
gest affuent Of the Madeira. Until
now its upper course has been utterly
unknown to everyone. and its lower
course. although known for years tC
the rubber men. utterly unknown "a
all photographers. Its course g. be
tween the 18th and 18th parallels %
, latitude south. and between Longitude
% degrees and longitude so degree.
west from Greenwich. We embarked
on II about at latitude II degrees
minute south. and longitude 60 de
grees Is minutes west. After that lbs
entire course was between the G0tf
and 6lst degree OF longitude an
preaching the latter most closely
about in latitude s degrees L. min.
utes. The first rapids were al Nava
rite. in II degrees % minutes. and az
ter that they were continuous and
very difficult and dangerous until the
rapids named after the murdered ser
reant, poish9n. IN ~ degrees T. min.
utes. The mouth where 10 entered
IN. Madeira was in ? degrees 90 min.
I utee. The stream we have followed
IS that which rises farthest away from
the south. and IFS general course b
almost due north"
months ago refused the divorce but