APPENDIX A 



THE WORK OF THE FIELD ZOOLOGIST 



AND F I EL D GEOGRAPHER IN 



SOUTH AMERICA 



Portions of South America are now entering on a 

 career of great social and industrial development. Much 

 remains to be known, so far as the outside world is con- 

 cerned, of the social and industrial condition in the long- 

 settled interior regions. More remains to be done, in 

 the way of pioneer exploring and of scientific work, in 

 the great stretches of virgin wilderness. The only two 

 other continents where such work, of like volume cind 

 value, remains to be done are Africa and Asia; and 

 neither Africa nor Asia offers a more inviting field for 

 the best kind of field worker in geographical exploration 

 and in zoological, geological, and paleontological investi- 

 gation. The explorer is merely the most adventurous 

 kind of field geographer; and there are two or three 

 points worth keeping in mind in dealing with the South 

 American work of the field geographer and field zoologist. 



Roughly, the travellers who now visit (like those who 

 for the past century have visited) South America come 

 in three categories — although, of course, these categories 

 are not divided by hard-and-fast lines. 



First, there are the travellers who skirt the continent 

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