Identifier: recollectionsofi00crai (find matches)
Title: Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Craig, Neville B., 1847-1926 Madeira and Mamoré Association
Subjects: Madeira-Mamoré Railway Mercedita (Ship) Collins Expedition (1878-1879) Brazil -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia & London : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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ried in the Catholiccemetery at Manaos and a monument, erected thereby his comrades, attests to this day the high esteemin which he was held by all who knew him. Mr. Mcll-vaine and the writer had jointly occupied the samestateroom on the Mercedita. At that time his goodhabits, excellent general health, and splendid physicaldevelopment seemed to be guarantees of unusual ca-pacity to endure the privations and hardships of camplife. He was almost continuously in the field from the19th of February until, with Mr. WetherilPs corps, hereached the Jaci Parana on the 8th of August. Hisfield service had, therefore, been exceptionally longand arduous. It is, however, a striking fact, of which we hadmany proofs, that malarial fevers are unusually ma-lignant in cases where men have previously enjoyedrobust health, while those threatened with consumptionor affected with ailments that would apparently unfitthem for efficient service, often exhibit astonishingpowers of endurance. > >-O OOGC to
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AN ILL-FATED EXPEDITION 397 In a letter, dated October 15t)i, Mr. Ward writesfrom San Antonio that, on account of the arrival ofthe laborers from Ceara, *^work goes on a little morebriskly than heretofore. . . . But a very small per-centage of the Americans are working. ... A greatmany have gone home and many are now leaving insmall row boats they build for themselves. Only six-teen engineers now remain. But there was no aban-donment of the enterprise or even thought of it at thattime. A contract still exists, bearing date of October 17,1878, in which the commandante at Praia de Tamanduaagrees to furnish Mr. Collins with 1000 turtles whichwere soon afterwards delivered alive. They were ofimmense size, some of them measuring three or fourfeet from head to tail. Eaten in moderation, they werea real treat to men, who had for months subsisted uponfat pork and salt beef, but the trouble was that, whilethe turtles were obtainable, we had a surfeit of them.The writer, then in very bad health

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