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from the American Museum who were 
with me, and for the Brazilian officers 
skilled in cartographical 
joined the expedition. 
work who 
I thought of making the trip a zodlogi- 
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 
In the canoe ready for the trip down the Unknown River. 
Brazil 
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 
Rondon, a_ Brazilian 
engineer, there had been discovered the 
under Colonel 
record of such pressing importance before condi- 
tions be intruded upon in South America and 
races pushed 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).— Tue Epiror. 
Photo by Miller 
At camp Rio Téodoro, Matto Grosso, 
might be some surprises before we got 
through. Of course we jumped at the 
chance, and at once arranged to meet 
Colonel Rordon 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 
