gray hue (contrasted with the white bell- 
bird) has a ringing whistle which sounds 
from the topmost branches of the trees. 
The mammals were a great contrast 
to what I had seen in Africa. Africa 
is the country for great game. ‘There is 
nothing like that in South America. 
The animals in South America are of 
interest to the naturalist more than to 
the person who is traveling through the 
country and takes the ordinary layman’s 
Only two of the animals 
One of 
point of view. 
found there are formidable. 
these is the jaguar, the king of South 
American game, ranking on an equality 
with the noblest beasts of the chase of 
North America, second only to the huge 
and fierce creatures which stand at the 
head of the big game of Africa and Asia. 
The great spotted creatures are very 
beautiful. Like all cats they are easily 
killed with a pack of hounds, but they 
are very difficult to come upon other- 
wise. They will charge men and some- 
times become man-eaters. 
Another big mammal of the Brazilian 
The 
white-lipped peccaries herd together in 
the dense jungles in packs of thirty or 
forest is the white-lipped peccary. 
forty or sometimes as many as two or 
three hundred. They are formidable 
creatures. The young ones may be no 
larger than a setter dog but they have 
tusks. They surge and 
charge together and I think that they 
may legitimately be called dangerous. 
tremendous 
Photo by Miller 
Colonel Roosevelt in his hunting clothes ready for the day’s start. 
“T kept continually wishing that they [the naturalists of the expedition] had more time in which to 
study the absorbingly interesting life-histories of the beautiful and wonderful beasts and birds we were 
all the time seeing. Every first-rate museum must still employ competent collectors; but I think 
that a museum could now confer most lasting benefit, and could do work of most permanent good, 
by sending out into the immense wilderness, where wild nature is at her best, trained observers with 
the gift of recording what they have observed. Such menshould be collectors ...., but they should.... 
primarily be able themselves to see, and to set vividly before the eyes of others, the full life-histories 
of the creatures that dwell in the waste spaces of the world.’’ — Quoted from p. 161, Roosevelt’s Through 
the Brazilian Wilderness 
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