Arizona state miner., 1925-09-12
Capt. Stevens Takes First
Aerial Pictures of River
in Brazil.

New York.-Capt A. w. Stevens,
aerial photographer of DR. A. Hamil-
ton Rices expedition 10 hitherto un-
explored regions in the tropical jungle
north of the Amazon river basin in
Brazil, announced recently that he and
Waiter Hinton, the aviator, according
to the New York Times recently, had
discovered the source Of the Parma
river in the Parma mountains last
month, and had photographed and
mapped almost 1000 miles Of terrain,
including 100 miles never before ex-
plOred by white men.
Flying at an altitude of one mile
above the Rio Branco the Rio Urari-
cOera and the Rio Parma, and using
special high-altitude camera that can
make a Photographic record of a strip
of land 120 miles long and one and
One-half miles wide, Captain Stevens
said he had taken the first aerial pic
lures ever made of these rivers and
the surrounding country, and had made
the first complete and accurate map
of the country all the way from the
City Of Mana0S, the base of the eXpe-
dition, to the source of the Parma
river.
Accompanied by James w. Swanson,
radio expert of the Rice expedition,
Captain Stevens arrived in New York
on the steamship Polycarp. Captain
Stevens told Of his experiences in the
office Of the Fairchild Aerial Camera
corporation, which makes the special
army air-service camera which Cap
tasa Stevens used
Left the Expedition Behind.
Captain Stevens said that he had
left Hinton at Manaos and the rest of
the expedition of 80 whites and ma
tives, headed by Doctor Rice, several
hundred miles farther from civilization
on their way to the source of the
Parma.
When the Rice expedition reaches
the headwaters of the Parma, which
it may have done by now, Captain
Stevens went on, it may be confronted
by the same tribe of cannibalistic In
dians that attacked Doctor Rice and his
party with poisoned arrows on the
other side of the Parma mountains
In 1920, and prevented the explorers
finding the source of the Orinoco river,
which also rises in the Sierra Parma.
1t is hoped, however, that by this time
the Indians, in the fashion of the Per
sian tribes in "Grass," may have made
their annual pilgrimage across the
and Hinton did not see the Indians at
the source of the. Parma, but did see
clearings and other indications that
one of their villages was near. In
order to win their friendship for the
other white men of the expedition, the
tanning glass beads, pocket knives and
other gifts.
Before his return to America Doctor
Rice will complete his research at the
source of the Parma into the ethnO-
logical and geological features of the
hitherto unexplored region and its
commercial possibilities. Captain
Stevens said that the expedition al
ready has learned many interesting
facts about the customs of the friendly
natives-full-blo Indians who go
about naked, eat raw food and are
strict monOgamists-and about fossil
lied skeletons discovered in the river
basins,
When Doctor Rice returns, according
to Captain Stevens, he expects to bring
with him valuable information as to
the possibilities of further develop
ment of the Amazon-Pa region for
the sake of its rubber, gutta percha
and other natural resources.