APPENDIX C 



MY LETTER OF MAY I TO GENERAL 

 LAURO MULLER 



The first report on the expedition, made by me im- 

 mediately after my arrival at Manaos, and published in 

 Rio Janeiro upon its receipt, is as follows: 



May 1st, 1914. 

 To His Excellency The Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs, 

 Rio-de- Janeiro. 

 My dear General Lauro Muller: 



I wish first to express my profound acknowledgments 

 to you personally and to the other members of the 

 Brazilian Government whose generous courtesy alone 

 rendered possible the "Expedicao Scientifica Roosevelt- 

 Rondon. I wish also to express my high admiration and 

 regard for Colonel Rondon and his associates who have 

 been my colleagues in this work of exploration. In* the 

 third place I wish to point out that what we have just 

 done was rendered possible only by the hard and perilous 

 labor of the Brazilian Telegraphic Commission in the 

 unexplored western wilderness of Matto Grosso during 

 the last seven years. We have had a hard and somewhat 

 dangerous but very successful trip. No less than six 



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