Identifier: throughsouthamer00zahmuoft (find matches)
Title: Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Zahm, John Augustine, 1851-1921
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 South America -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Appleton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ters of Maria Ausiliatrice teaching Bororos children Bororos Indians building a home for the Sisters of Ausiliatrice ....The Nyoac on the Upper Paraguay .Our naturalists at work on the NyoacPart of our camp at Porto do CampoCommunities of troopials .Parasite-laden trees ....Palmares in inundated territory .Starting from TapirapuhanThe author and Colonel Roosevelt at Utiarity Breaking camp ... ... xvi ^laria PAGE 236268268282282326326326346346368368402406406410410426426430430434 434452452464464468468474474478 LIST OP ILLUSTRATIONS Five oclock tea in the jungle . Interior of Parcels home . Returning from the mandioca field Parcels musicians A Parcels woman as burden-bearer A game of headball . Utlarlty Falls .... The author and some of his little Parcels friends PACING PAGE . 478 . 484 . 484 . 496 . 496 . 496 . 500 . 500 Note.—I am indebted to the courtesy of several of my associates in theexpedition for the use of their photographs in making many of the illus-trations in this volume.
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Route Followed by the Author Through South Americas Southland. I THROUGH SOUTHAMERICAS SOUTHLAND CHAPTER I OEIGIN AND OEGANIZATION OF OUREXPEDITION No lover of wild nature can visit the equinoctial regionsof South America without experiencing, sooner or later,an irresistible desire to return to these alluring lands ofromance and enchantment. This is especially true, if onehas come under the magic spell of the great forests of theinterior of the continent and has had an opportunity ofstudying the wonderful fauna and flora which everywhereclaim his attention. It matters not that one has to roughit and endure all manner of hardships. These drawbacks,far from deterring one from his undertaking, seem, on thecontrary, to give it a peculiar zest which only those canappreciate who have been privileged to traverse the mar-velous regions that lie under tropical and sub-tropicalskies. I can testify, as one having experience, to the en-thralling character of this particular kind of wanderlust.For

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