To the Amazon and Home 341 



had been upset in the rapids, and his instruments and all 

 his notes lost. He had reached Manaos on April 10. 

 Fiala had gone home. Miller was collecting near Manaos. 

 He had been doing capital work. 



The piranhas were bad here, and no one could bathe. 

 Cherrie, while standing in the water close to the shore, 

 was attacked and bitten; but with one bound he was on 

 the bank before any damage could be done. 



We spent a last night under canvas, at Pyrineus' 

 encampment. It rained heavily. Next morning we all 

 gathered at the monument which Colonel Rondon had 

 erected, and he read the orders of the day. These recited 

 just what had been accomplished: set forth the fact that 

 we had now by actual exploration and investigation dis- 

 covered that the river whose upper portion had been 

 called the Diivida on the maps of the Telegraphic Com- 

 mission and the unknown major part of which we had 

 just traversed, and the river known to a few rubber-men, 

 but to no one else, as the Castanho, and the lower part of 

 the river known to the rubber-men as the Aripuanan 

 (which did not appear on the maps save as its mouth was 

 sometimes indicated, with no hint of its size) were all 

 parts of one and the same river; and that by order of the 

 Brazilian Government this river, the largest affluent of 

 the Madeira, with its source near the 13th degree and its 

 mouth a little south of the Sth degree, hitherto utterly 

 unknown to cartographers and in large part utterly un- 

 known to any save the local tribes of Indians, had been 

 named the Rio Roosevelt. 



We left Rondon, Lyra, and Pyrineus to take observa- 

 tions, and the rest of us embarked for the last time on the 



