The Washington herald., 1914-05-27
I.R, SAYS HEPU
ARIVER ON MAP
Tells 3, 500 People All About
It. and They Cheer the
Doughty Colonel.
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great auditorium was very poor. IN
crowd grew trife impatient and smuse
itself by cheering coiored boy who 30
upon the stage to FIX some chairs Pre-
cisely at the hour selected for the open
ing of the lecture. Col. Roosevelt entere
the hall
Z0vatfon as He Enters HAIL.
He was received with An ovation tina
shook the girders Of the building an
continued until Director Grosveno
stepped forward tc introduce the speaker
The INTRODUCTION was brief and formal
no reference being made to the critic
of the colonel who have denied his dis
eovery. AS Mr.. Grosvenor fnished. Col
Roosevelt stepped forward. His stor,
was plainly and simply told-e story O
hardship, Of privation. and danger. Fol
nearly two hours he spoke and when h
had told all there was to ten. he stepped
to the front of the stage. and with barred
teeth and flashing eyes, he shouted:
.I put q river on the mapr'
And the audience, almost to q man
believed It. =. "
The coloners story foliows:
Matter of Real Moment.
TT is . pleasure TO me to say to this
audience and these officers, first what
have to say about our trip in South
America, and have what you might
call exhibits A, B, c and d here in
the shape of fellow-members of the
expedition. And now in a way, pleased
though am to see you I am almosS
regretful to see you all here, because
have got to make rather a dry speech.
and unless you are interested In
geography think you will dnd 1t per-
haps even drier than I anticipate. be-
cause what have to, say tonight fs OF
a matter Of real moment, and 1 wish
to put before this audience the exact
description of what we have done, and
1t is going to be taken down steno-
graphically, SO that / will not have to
trust to the well meaning, but neces-
sarily wholly successful efforts of the
gentlemen who write headlines in the
newspapers, to combine color with
thrill.
Now, to every member OF this So
ciety and to every man who has ever
seriously considered exploration, II
ought to be unnecessary to say what,
however, IL will be necessary TO say 20
those who are not acquainted With .e1-
pIoratfon, that hardly ever can you DO
anything of note, save by building on
what has been done by your predeces-
sors' work.
Columbus could not have discovered
America, IL 1t had not been for the deeds
of Portuguese and to a less extent OF
Spanish sailors, from the days OF Prince
Henry. the Navigator on; Peary could
not have discovered the North Pole II
there had not been for generations men
who had been pushing far northward the
limits Of knowledge Of the polar regions.
To take an infinitely less important in
stance, I could. of course, have done
nothing in South America, II II had not
been for the work done by scores OF
other men during the years that have
passed, and especially during the last
seven or. eight years.
Il doubt II there is any continent which
still offers as fertile a field for expiora-
tion work of every kind as South America
ioes, and 1 say exploration work of any
kind, chronological, geological, geographi-
cal, and no man can cover more than a
small part of the field. The work of the
expedition of which 1 was a member was
essentially a zoogecgraphic reconnaissance.
and Mr.. Grosvenor, when what I have
to say tonight is produced in your jour
nal, the most deservedly popular serious
journal in America, I hope you will give
It that title of zoogeographical recon- |
Nuisance Il pretends to be nothing else, |
and it could be nothing else.
Work for Man Who Comes Later.
The first work In the wilderness can
not be exhaustive work. The exhaustive |
work must be made by the men who !
come afterwards, because if the men
who go first try to stay in the wilder
ness they do-not come out. Now many l
men at this moment are working at diff
ferent parts OF that problem For in
stance, 1 cannot speak too highly Of the
work that has been done by Mr.. Hazel
man. sent, / think. by the Carnegie In
stitute of Pittsburgh down into Brazil.
primarily to study certain features OF
the zoology of the continent, but which
dealt also incidentally with the features
of the geological structure and the eth
nology.
ct met at Manaos or Para, have for
gotten which, Prof. Fiala, of the Uni
of Pennsylvania, who is study
ing ethnology there, and who has just
finished a really noteworthy trip. largely
on foot, from the Amazon Valley up
across the high plateau to the north
and down into British Guiana. They had
hoped to go down into French Guiana
Out 1ney ROl COIuplctciy OUT Vi IneOlClnc-l
completely out OF quinine. and had 10
20 the quickest way they could to the
Caribbean Sea SO as to avoid total dis
aster to the expedition
IT met at Para a German lady, Miss
who has, from the zoologi-
,al standpoint and from the geographical
standpoint, done as excellent work as
,ny man could do who has traversed on
loot the region between the Shingo and
Amazon, and who as head Of the Zoo
ogical Gardens in Para, has made a
,oologicai collection. which I think really
he model of what such a collection
,hould be. for instead of containing a
ireary collection of second-rate elephants
md lions, she has confined herself purely
@ the mammals of the Amazon, with the
-esult that that geological garden repre-
,ents the best collection of the mammals q
II northern South America that there IL ,
o be found anywhere. Now, all Of these I
,eople whom have mentioned and 4
cores of others in all parts OF South i
America. are each doing his or her part, &
md that fact wants to be distinctly rec IL
,gnized We tend always to visualize to 1t
ourselves any work as being done by one I
exploration or anything else. and to for lr
ret the fact that that man can be moth liz
ng save for what is done by hundreds Of II
ther men Ia
That is so as regards different ex- la
iorers. That Is SO as regards the MEM 4
ers OF an exploring expedition Ii
Praises Others of Expedition.