APPENDIX A 



THE WORK OF THE FIELD ZOOLOGIST AND FIELD 

 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 concerned, of the social and industrial con- 

 ditions 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 and 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 investigation. The 

 explorer is merely the most adventurous kind of field geographer ; 

 and there are two or three points worth keeping in mind in deal- 

 ing 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 in comfort- 

 able steamers, going from one great seaport to another, and occa- 

 sionally taking a short railway journey to some big interior city 

 not too far from the coast. This is a trip well worth taking by 

 all intelligent men and women who can afford it ; and it is being 

 taken by such men and women with increasing frequency. It 

 entails no more difficulty than a similar trip to the Mediterranean 

 — than such a trip as that which Mark Twain immortalized. It is 



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