The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-22


California. Franklin v. Coates
and ]. Il. Holbrook. moving pic
ture men and general photographers.
and J. W. Dunno. a botanist betiines. ar
rived in New York last Tue sday on the
1snport & Holt steamship Byron from
Barbados.
The four men thus ended an adyen-
ture OF ten months in which they had
covered considerable distance. Judged
by any standard. TO reach Barbados
they had come up from Rio Janelro.
matter Of loo miles. RIO had been
reached after a 600 mile trip from Para
at the mouth of the Amazon. Para
ended q Journey Of 1000 miles down
the biggest river and its upper tribu'
,,ries and in addition to that there
had been the Journey from New York to
Colon, across to Panama. down 10 Lima.
Peru. on the west coast, aud then n
matter of 1000 miles In and out the
mountains and jungles of Peru the up-
per edge OF Bolivia and the lower edge
Of Ecuador.
Occasionally this trip had been 3c-
complished ON mountain climbing trains,
some of it on horseback and burro,
little OF IT following llauss, much al 1t
afoot and the greater part NJ 1t down
those rapid flowing sources OF the ANA
ION which come out of the Andes with
the speed of express trains. The men
had gone in distance mu.h more than
Nslf the circumference of the carih,
,,,hough they had stuck to only one
section Of three countries OF the great
South American continent. Capt. Bes-
lev and his friends who hear travellers
of the southern and western sections
of the United States speak OF the great
outdoors" look something as Noah might
be expected to look when lie heard
modern food victim discuss high water;
they know YOU could put u all down III
one corner of the little known land and
lose il.
The trip of Capt. Besley and his cont
penions, they admit when they get rlsht
down 20 IL, was not wholly scientinc'
In fact the demand of the moving PIC
,ure industry for first hand delineations
Of the odd. unusual and the little known
had as much to do with II as anything,
as about 10000 feet Of film VIII supse-
nuently show the public. 1t Is con-
tended the spectators will sec something
few have ever seen in anything out
stirl pictures--the life and the scenes
If an unknown land.
yes. We went for sport, for scientinc
investigation in a limited way and Tor
tho pIcturee," said the Captain the
other day. 1T was a country through
which / wanted 20 travel. j wanted 10
10 after the game, I wanted to see the
deserted cities. to follow the old trails
10 canoe and raft down the marvellous
water courses Of altos Amaxonas ana to
zee the jungles, the like Of which Is TO
be seen In no other part Of the worid.
I'VE saw all that, but we are not yet
satisfied and We must go again. we
went, we believe. through sections OF
territory over which no white men ever
travelled before, but there are stu
thousands and thousands Of miles OF
jungles yet unexplored. lying as they
lay when the word was young. seen
only by a few wandering Indians, but
oil 80 dense and impenetrable that only
creeping and crawling things can go
through them In their natural state
II does no good TO cut trail through
them: a few days and the trail dis
appears under the overhanging vines
and vegetation and Is blotted out by
the rank creepers and flowers"
The trip Of the Besley expedition
divided Itself into three periods, as he
explained It. When the party arrived
At Lima In July, 1918, there were eleven
IN the party, seven men having Joined
the four Just for the experience OF It.
South American travel was new to the
head OF the expedition and all kinds Of
travel was new to the other men; that
Is, rough travel. The Captain himself.
with experience I'm Africa. Tibet and
other outlying countries. knew soine-
thing Of hard work, but the other men
we're new and green.
I'VE had TO have tuning UP trip, 80
to speak," said he TO the reporter. I'VE
had TO harden the men and show them
what they might have to expect. So
We planned q little trip TO Chanchu-
mayo Valley. a matter Of 500 miles or
50 from Lima.
There was an interesting feature to
this trip because we were to 20 to the
hnme Of the uta ny. which scientists
have told mo u moro to be feared than
The tsetse fly OF Africa. They have re-
Gently determined that the uta COM
ninnicates pernicious anemiA follow
- what 10 called tho Peruvian wart
Tho United States Public Health Ser
vice has had man down there making
IN exhaustive study and no hes made
. report,
ITO get to tho Chancumayo Valley
We took a train to Ccrr0 do Pasco. up
IN the Andes. q day and half trip
Cerro de Pasco has an altitude around
$4,000 feet. but Il Ia an American min
ms town. james y. Haxgin and