Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-27

The Juruena is not there. 1t is a number
of days journey farther on.
we then journeyed three weeks fur
Their. We got near this great tributary.
which is here. which is the Gyparana,
but on the map that Gyparana is two
degrees of longitude out of position. Its
course is really about where the Jamalre
is on the map put down as running. l
could not trace out our course with ref
erence to the map. because We would
have to make impossible ZigZags In order
to cross on the map the rivers that we
actually crossed.
River Shown as Mountain.
Now, we came down to this point here
Indicating on the map. There on the
map is a mountain There was really
valley with a river flowing down the
middle. On this map. which is the best
modern map, the map produced for me
by Mr.. Grosvenor. as representing the
latest information they had-on THIS map
there is a river rising here. 1t does
nothing of the kind. 1t does not run any
where near it. Here are those rivers
heading up there. They do not head up
there. We went down another RIVER
where their sources are supposed 10 Pc
and these mountains are almost as lrrele-
want to the actual facts as are the rivers
themselves. You can see. as l said, bet
ter on this map here. Here is the Iapa-
joz Here Is the Gyparana running lnto
the Madeira. On that map and on the
YOU will find a little river in about or
degrees l think the actual course IS
about 10 or 5.15, but very nearly !1s,
little river there put on there ana put
down here dotted without any name
There are other and smaller maps on
which l have seen a name put oo"Li,
but il is not there. 1t is a little creek
not a river at all. AS a matter OF 1act.
that little dotted creek without a name
is a much bigger river at the NOUN
even in point of volume OF water. tnah
all these other tributaries OF the Ma
deira. A.
houched We found a river-that Is that
black spot in there Indicating on map
with no hint or suggestion on the map
| repeat, that there is not mint OF
suggestion.
Puts River on the Map.
II ask YOU to listen attentively to what
7 saw we did. We have put on the map
a river of which there is not only no
knowledge and which is not shown on
any existing map, but it Is not even
guessed at on any existing map, OF "nlch
the upper courses of the navigable por-
ton have never before been traversed by
any civilized man, of which the lower
portion has been known for years by the
rubber men. but of which no topographer
had the faintest idea of the existence, ana
of which not a trace is to be found on
any existing map.
"A commission of officials had gone up
a stream Known as the CaStania- AS TO
the lower part. commission OF the state
OF Amazonas. the boundary commission,
had gone up that branch about year
ago, not as far the rubber men went,
and. curiously enough, nothing that they
did was put onto any map. and the source
of the river was absolutely unguessed at
We found the members of the Geographic
commission thought it part Of the Du-
vida. One of the officers with MS thought
it ran right into this river indicating on
map. Another officer thought it probably
ran right into the Tapajas. Col. Rondon
thought it flowed into still another river.
judging from the fact that the rubber
men had told him that in spite of what
the map said this river had greater vol
ume than any other of the tributaries of
the Madeira
1--WE descended in the neighborhood of
l 900 feet. all told, from the feadwaters to
the bottom fthat river. ! say in the
neishborhood of 1,0cO feet because we