The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28
IS Planning Expedition ITO the Ends of the Earth For a Nosegay

have / heard n sound which =
presses so perfectly the exubereS.
call Of the suRgle. Ther1 are nos
lot snakes and mosquitoes. sns
always the chance of mala.iaI fovsra
especially on. the Pacific coast, whers
the rainfall averages 3OO 10 ioS
inches annually. But In the cod
upper stretches of the Andes. wbera
most OF u work will be done. tho
land is free from insects and waterad
by cold mountain streams. 7, q
p~erpetually spring in this paradise
OF nature. as delightful a place as
the heart CT man could wish.
Il cannot emphasize to- strongly
DR.. r. w. Pcnncll, who heads the 90,
dition sent out by leading %institn.
lions to gather botanical curlos.
BY CAROLINE SOUTHwELL
the diversity of conditions undsr
which we WIN collect our specimens.
for the racial. geographic and eli.
matte contracts are as marked and
as interesting as the variation In
the flora. For instance, on tho
Upper Migdelena l have seen a
grazing country with a most un-
promising white population In the
grip of disease, squalor and misery.
Beggars beseiged us at every turn.
Then in the tropical forest are the
rains. mosquitoes and negroes scarce.
~ better than their four-footed
brothers OF the Jungle. The old
Spanish towns are in sharp contrast
and in the colder, mountainous re-
gions even the Indians become en-
ergetic and thrifty, and we were
| never asked for aims.
ut is difficult to describe CoIum.
bia because of the many ~sidedness OF
any true picture. You have tropi-
cal lowland and mountain o n
crowned with glaciers, and the hu.
NAM population are of most vary
ing element. Spanish. Indian and
negro. You have a delightful hac-
ienda and the town life of the So
ciety of Bogota, against the SIM
plicity Of the poems on the great
estates, of the poverty, misery and
| disease of the towns of the upper
Magdelena valley. or. again. the
primitive indolent life of the negro
along the lower rivers. Among the
Indians there are the hard working,
quiet Chibchas, who have Wanted TO
maize entire mountain slopes near
Bogota, ~cuitivatiEg hills which no
farmer of the states would think OF
utilizing; or there are the Caribs
Whom I saw on the upper Sinu
river, clothed, but brilliantly painted
Indians. Do you get some glimpse
of the diversity"
To Manizales, Medellin, Frontino
and Cartagena the expedition will
go. They will pitch their tents on
mountain tops and make excursions
into valley prairies. They will coll
lect on the sides OF Purace. a hoary
monarch that dominates the south.
ern part of the Cordillera Central
and spreads terror throughout the
| countryside with it's threats and
warnings OF fresh volcanic eruptions.
| A huge column of smoke and vapor
1t continually pours~ forth and at
night one can see reflected on the
snow the glow OF fires smoldering
within the gaping crater. Here are
great bare Tomas strewn with black
boulders reminiscent of cataclysms
OF bygone ages.
Doctor Pennell will explore, too.
Mount Sotaro. an inactive ash-cov-
cred volcano as grayish as the Ne
vada landscape. and on which an
entirely different flora is 20 be
found. Then they will return TO
Call and go by boat to Carriage.
Now boats on the rivers OF Colom-
bia are uncovered; animals, black
folk and luggage are piled together;
n may be stuck on a sand bar
for hours or ever days, or unloaded
in a dark-jungle while the crew
shove off the car.
Later this expedition will follow
the historic Quindio trail, so called
because of the cluster OF five snowy
peaks. Over this trail Baron Won
Humboldt crossed the Andes in 1903
at an altitude of 1880 feet. Since
then most of the scientists who have
crossed this trial have been Euro
peans carrying their scientific troph-
les back to- the museums OF their
own lands: hence the value OF such
an expedition as Doctor Pencils
for bringing rare material here.