THE ROOSEVELT-RONDON SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION ol 
a short voyage up the Rio Pilecomayo into 
the Grand Chaco of Paraguay. We reached 
a small settlement called Porto Galileo that 
night, where we were the guests of the ‘‘Que- 
bracho”’ Company. A large mill had been 
erected for the extraction of tannin from logs 
brought in from the surrounding country, 
and a narrow-gauge railway was being con- 
structed in the interior, a distance of sixty 
kilometers, fifteen kilometers of which was 
already in operation. We proceeded to the 
end of the line and pitched camp on the bank 
of a small stream, the Rio Negro, infested 
with piranhas. 
Our camp was merely a rough shed built 
of sheets of corrugated iron supported on 
poles driven into the ground. The river 
water was salt and unfit for use, so each 
morning several large jugs of drinking water 
were sent us from Porto Galileo, together 
with a supply of fresh provisions. All 
about lay marshes, swamps and large grass- 
The public market place in Asuncion, Paraguay.— Asuncion, which has been the scene of five 
revolutions in as many years, shows plainly the marks of violence which it has suffered. 
An air of de- 
pression hangs over the city, business activity is at a standstill and women are seen everywhere in deep 
mourning 
Fort Coimbra on the Paraguay River.— Built on the rocky hillside near the dividing line between 
Brazil and Bolivia, it has figured in many of the conflicts between these two countries 
