The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-06-25

to pass, but they can be perfectly we'll
negotiated. You can take boats up
them. 1t is still better if you want to
establish series You can have
launches above each rapid to go for
the $50 or 200 kilometers before YOU
come to the next serious obstacle to
navigation. There is no difficulty
whatever in the navigation. say no
difficulty whatever mean from the
standpoint from which | am speak
ing-by launch and canoe, broken by
falls now and then from 1912 degrees
to 51a degrees.
Tells Of the Embarkation.
Now, when we embarked. having
gone some thirty days by mule and OK
train across this high central plateau
OF western Brazil-when we embarked
our party consisted Of twenty-five men,
| sixteen camarades and three Brazilian
officers, among them Colonel Rondon
and Mr. Cherrie of the American mu-
scum, my son Kermit and myself. We
| said goodby in the twelfth degree Of
| latitude to the other members of the
expedition who had come that far.
| Colonel Rondon. l believe. affirmed
that it was the Aripone which we
would come out Of: He had directed
Lieutenant Pyrinez to send the boat I'D
on the chance Of meeting US. directing
him to go up until he found big af-
fluent entering the river and stop
there, because he could not tell which
one we would be coming down. And
Lieutenant Pyrinez went up to about
degrees Is minutes and waited for
us. We said goodby to Mr.. Mueller
and his associates here on Feb. q.
After exactly sixty days of canoeing
work we met Lieutenant Pyrinez.
On the trip of our six members, Mr..
Cherrie, my son, the doctor and Lieu
tenant Lira kept diaries day by day.
About every half degree or degree we
itook astronomical observations
The different portions of the course
that we followed varied widely in diff
Guilty. For four days we ran. survey
ing for the river very accurately We
ran rather slowly before encountering
any rapids. We then struck our first
serious rapids. After that, which was
in about II degrees IS minutes south,
we spent forty two days, during which
we slept every day at the head or
foot of rapid. and during the forty
two days we only covered one degree
of latitude, going to about 10 degrees
45 minutes south. We had By that
time gone not more than Il sixth of the
distance that we expected to go and
had used up about three-fourths or
four-ffths of our food; had been on
half rations pretty much all the time,
eked out with parrots and monkeys.
which we enjoyed there.
Then during that time we lost of the
seven canoes five in the rapids. We
built three others and lost one of those
Then we came out the last success.
sion Of rapids. having been gone forty
six days. We struck a long stretch OF
smooth water. The river was very
broad and very big in that part, and
after two days more We struck the up
permost camp or house of any of the
| rubber men. We were able to .el
food-sugarcane. sometimes rice O,
bananas. occasionally a chicken or {;
duck, not very often, and in the clever
days. if l remember rightly. we go
eight eggs.
But ell our difficulties were over
and we made the entire remaining dis
lance in fourteen days. We wen
down to below the junction of the up
per Aripone and the so called Cas-
tnnia. and then in thirty-six hours Of
the steamer went down to the mout]
Of the river, down the Amazon and
little way up the Rio Machado to Ma
naos. The serious work was the frs
"a little less than seven weeks goin
3 down through the rapids. After tina
there was no difficulty.
Il We were fortunate enough on on
: trips down the river not to lose any 0
t our instruments or any of the spec
j. mems or notebooks or anything els
n that was of consequence to the expt
y dition. but we had to cut all our pei
r sonal belongings down to the bone.
= On the upper course of the rive
j. there were Indians They were afrai
e OF us and somewhat hostile. l thin
their hostility was due only to timi(iit,
i Rondon's Dog Shot by Indians.
Colonel Rondon was nearly shot. q
was out hunting for monkeys. becaus
we were hungry. and he had a dc
s with him. He heard what he though
n was the bowling of spider monkey
u The dog went ahead, and he followed
t. It proved to be Il couple of Indian
J. who were initiating the calling of til
] spider monkeys. probably to attra(
y him. The first thing he knew abo1
e was hearing the dog yell. then comm
=. toward him. then yelling again al
n then silence. and he was Sure-snd
# afterward proved be was right--tl;
# it had been killed by Indians. He fire
% his revolver in the air. and the Indian
# ran. We afterward went out ourselv'
and found the dead body Of the dc
# with two arrows through it.
" The camarades. the nen who wei
] In ia