Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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36 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL from the American Museum who were with me, and for the BraziUan officers skilled in cartographical work who joined the expedition. I thought of making the trip a zoologi- cal one only, when I started from New headwaters of a river running north through the center of Brazil. To go down that river and put it on the map would be interesting, but he wanted to tell me that one cannot guarantee what may happen on unknown rivers — there
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In the canoe ready for the trip down the Unknown River. Brazil Photo by Miller At camp Rio Teodoro, Matto Grosso, York, but when I reached Rio Janeiro the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Lauro Miiller, whom I had known before, told me that he thought there was a chance of our doing a piece of geographical work of importance. In the course of the work of the telegraph commission under Colonel Rondon, a Brazilian engineer, there had been discovered the record of such pressing importance before condi- tions be intruded upon in South America and races puslied to the wall by civilization, that various quotations from Colonel Roosevelt on this point have been inserted in the captions of the article and attention is hereby called to them (pages 34, 43 and 45).— The Editor. might be some surprises before we got through. Of course we jumped at the chance, and at once arranged to meet Colonel Ror.don and his assistants at the head of the Paraguay, to go down from there with them. We touched at Bahia and Rio Janeiro and then came down by railway across southern Brazil and Uruguay to Buenos Aires and went through the Argentine over to Chili. We traveled south through Chili and then crossed the Andes. That sounds a very elaborate thing to do, but as a matter of fact

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