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Show 4536 Freeman- D 2555 America I have some knowledge, beginning at the northern coast of the continent, of the Crinoco, In British Guiana of the Demerara and the Essequebo. The Amazon in Brazil and the Negro' in the same country. Further south, of the Parana and Uriguay and the Ygnazu on which the very remarkable waterfall of the same name occurs. Several of the shorter rivers drainning to the west coast in Chili, of which I remember especially the Rio Bueno, and one or two rivers of which I do not recall the names. That is pretty well the South American list. The North American is somewhat fuller, and my navigation or attempted navigation of them is more comprehensive. My original interest in the rivers was largely due to the fact they have figured so much in our earlier history of which I have long made a study and in later years have been writing of considerably. I had found in the explorations of the early explorers the river was the inevitable route which they followed. It occurred to me in doing a bit of my own history if one could cruise these routes in very much the same type of craft of nearly the same size and character, under the same conditions as the early explorers, such as Lewis and Clark or Mackenzie, one would get an interpretive understanding which you could get in no other way. For that reason during the last fifteen years, especially during the last ten years, I have covered almost all of the principal |
