Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE ROOHEVELT-RONDOX SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION 63 March 13, and traveling rapidly with the current reached the Pimiento Bueno, eighty kilometers below, that night. The junction of the two rivers forms the Gy Parana. The Gy Parana at its very beginning is a mighty river, a thousand yards wide, and day by day as we raced with its swirling tor- rent we watched its rapid growth until near the mouth it reached a breadth of at least two miles. The country on both banks is heavily forested, and along the upper course is inhabited by a tribe of Indians which had been absolutely unknown. We were the first white men to see them, and they had never seen white men before. In appearance they differed greatly from their neighbors, the Nhambiquara. We met seven, all men, and finally induced them to accept gifts of beads and knives, in return for which they gave us wonderfully decorated arrows six feet tall. The Gy Parana abounds in formidable rapids, like many South American rivers, and we had numerous overland portages, the long- est being about three mile.s, around the falls of Sao Vicente. Insects are abundant, and the whole region is a vast breeding gi-ound for malaria. A number of rubber camps are sit- uated on the lower river, the forests being rich in hevea. We reached )\lanaos April 10, having stopped at Calama, a station on the Madeira, for a short period of collecting. As the Duvida party had not arrived, I almost immediately left for the Rio Solimoes where several weeks were spent to advantage adding to the collections. Among the large number of specimens collected were agoutis, woolly monkeys, squirrel monkeys, sloths, many small rodents and squirrels, all new to us; and the complete material for a group of hoatzins or lizard-birds was also collected. The collections now numbered about fifteen hundred birds and about four hundred and fifteen mammals, practically all of species unknown to us, and some of which are no doubt new to science. Colonel Roosevelt's party reached Manaos the last day of April, but the story of their experiences on the unexplored river is too well known to warrant review.
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