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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 7, 1913. 3-0 With Theodore Roosevelt in South America w (Copyright, 19U, by Frank O. Carpenter.) ABHINGTONi Dec. .-(Speclal correspondence ol The- Bee.) By the time this letter is pub lished ex-President Roosevelt will be about starting upon his expedition into th frnntrval InUrior of South America. He will have already visited the civilized sections ot tho three greatest countries of our sister continent, and will have delivered ad dresses In Argentina. Chile and Brazil. He will have traveled over the vast coffee Plantations about Sao Paulo, will have ridden with the gauchos or cowboys over tho pampas of Argentina, and will have hunted the wild American ostriches In tho desert of Patagonia. He will have climbed the Andes, have crossed over Into the progressive bull moose country of Chile, and have made his way by rail north and south through that shoe string republic. He will, In short, have seen the best In modern progress that South America has to offer, and will bo ready for that part of the continent which to day is practically as wild as it was when Juan do Soils first made his way up the Juan da Plata, and when Pinion dis covered the mouth of the Amazon. Greatest IUver Basin. South America has tho grandest river basins on earth, and It Is In tho basins of tho two largest of them that Mr. Roosevelt Is to travel The whole east ern and central halt of the continent Is composed of enormous river valleys and plains and plateaus. The Orinoco river, beginning In Venezuela, Is longer than from New York to Omaha. It flows north and Its head waters are In Brazil, o near those ot the Rio Negro that you can carry a canoe across from one stream to the other, and starting In at the Caribbean sea, cross Venezuela and Brazil and come out Into the Atlantic ocean. The Rio Negro enters tho Ama zon a thousand miles from Its mouth. It flows In Just below tho city of Manaos, and Its black waters may thero be seen moving along sldo by side with the yellow waters of tho Amazon. They flow together for some miles before they mix, and then the black disappears. It Is now fifteen years since I went 1.000 miles up the Amazon and entered the mouth of tho Rio Negro. The latter Is an Immense stream, and at Its mouth It seems as large as the Amazon Itself. There are high bluffs lining the banks and a little farthor up the stream Is a succession of lakes, some ot which are from twenty to thirty miles wide. The waters of the Rio Negro are as black as your hat, whllo those of the Amazon are as yellow as those of tho muddy Mis souri. I remember -that our steamer cut tho joining of the waters, so that you could look down over one aids of the vessel Into a stream of pitch and on the other into one of pale gold. Lour Trip by "Water. It Is not far from tho mouth ot the Rio Negio that the Madeira flows Into the Amazon, and one can go up that rUer during tho rainy season about aa far as from New Orleans to St. Louis. Th5s Is to tho falls of San Antonio. By taking a boat around the falls he could go Into tho Bent and Mamore, two of the branches which reach to Bolivia, and by a short portage from the Mamore get Into the Pllcomayo, which flows into tho Parana system. I have seen the Pllco mayo where It enters the Paraguay river In the Q ran ,phaco, some distance above the Argentine boundary, and have trav eled up the Paraguay almost to the pla teau ot Matto G rosso, wfiere rises the Tapajos river, another tributary of the Amazon, which Is about 1,200 miles long. I passed the mouth of the Tapajos when I traveled up the Amazon In 1898. It Is about EGO milei from Para and about an equal distance from Manaos and tho mouth of the Rio Negro. How noose velt Slay Travel. It has not been reported as yet which of these courses ex-President Roosevelt will take In making his way from the Parana system to that of the Amazon. He might go up tho Parana and Para guay and enter the Pllcomayo, but It Is more probable that he will gravel up the Paraguay river to Its source and thence trek across country and go Into Tapajos and float down that stream for 1,200 miles Into the mighty "Mother of Waters." He can go almost to the source of the Tapajos by the Parana system, and can reach Cuyaba, Brazil, which Is not far from there, by Btream. That town Is just about as high above sea level aa Is the surface of Lake Superior, and there are comfortable steamers which go about 1,100 miles north from Buenos Aires to Asuncion, tho capital of Paraguay, and smaller boats which run from there on to Cuyaba. Above Cuyaba the Para guay narrows, but It can be navigated by canoes for a distance of 150 miles farther. ECZEMA SPREAD ALL OVER BODY Began on Cheeks With Pimples. Itched Badly. Caused Disfigure ment. Had to Put Mittens on Him. Used Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Eczema Left Him, Roxbury. Ohio. "When my little boy was two week old he began breaking out on bis cheeks. The eczema begin just with pimples and tbey seemed to Itch so badly ho would scratch his face and cause a matter to run. Wherever that matter would touch. It would causa another plmplo until It spread all over his body. It mused disfigurement while It lasted, lie had, fifteen places on one arm and bis bead had several. The deepest places on his cheeks were as large as a silver dollar on each side. He was so restless at night we had to put mittens on him to keep him from scratching them 'with hi finger nails. He could not sleep because I put those. .mittens on which would not allow him to scratch and then he would wake up and be cross. If he got a little too warm at night it seemed to hurt badly. "Ws tried a treatment and he didn't get any better. He had the eczema about three weeks when we began using Cuticura Soap sad Ointment. I bathed him at night with the Cuticura Boap and spread the Cuticura Ointment on and the eczema left.' (Signed) Mrs. John White, Mar. 19. 1911. Cuticura Soap and Ointment do to rauoh for poor complexions, red, rough hands, ana dry, thin and falling hair, and cost so little, that It U almost criminal not to use them. Bold everywhere. Sample of each mailed free, with 33-p. book on the sldn and scalp. Ad dress post-card "Cuticura, Dept. T, Boston." aS-Men who shave and ahampoo with Cu ticura Sean win tad It best f er sldn and scalp. i dfl jfWVVGE OF THE XRATiWD I am told there are many rapids, how ever, and that portage will have to be made around some ot them. The town ot Dlamantlna Is not far from Cuyaba, and It will probably be at that place that the Roosevelt party will cross to the head waters ot the Tapajos. Vnlley of the Tnpnjns. Tho Tapajos has a branch, called the Arinos, which rises near there. Roose velt and his party will go down the Arinos Into tho Alto-Tapajos and will have to carry their boats around the rapids and cataracts at Maranhao Grande, after which they can get large vessels which will take them down the broad and deep stream which leads from there Into the Amazon at the town ot Santarem. The valley of tho Tapajos Is very pic turesque. It has high bluffs along the lower rivers, but they disappear within a few miles of the Amazon, and one comes out, as It were. Into a great flowing In land sea which extends from thero to the ocean. A few miles above Santarem Is the narrowest part of the lower Ama zon. This, Is at the town of Obldos. I remembetf when I went up the great river that we were often out of sight of land until we reached Obldos, and that the channel there narrowed to about a mile. The waters below were peaceful and smooth flowing. At Obldos the great stream swept through with enormous force, and the captain told me the river at that point was 240 feet deep. When wo stopped at Obldos we could not rely upon the ship's anchor to hold us, and our boat was tied by cable to the trees on the banks. Obldos la a rubber settle ment, with cacao plantations nearby. Difference In Travel. I envy ex-President Roosevelt his power to make a comfortable trip down the Tapajos, or perhaps by the Pllco mayo, Into the Madeira. I have traveled somewhat In the Interior of the Amazon basin and think It Is quite as Interesting as the highlands of Central Africa, through which region I went a year or so before ex-President Roosevelt and his expedition landed at Mombasa. I visited the same region In that country through which he traveled, but I did not have the great retinue, with mosqulto-proot tents and doctors and scientists and comforts galore. This expedition is to be a scientific one, and It will probably add greatly tb our knowledge of the wilds of South America, and to the collection of the American Museum of Natural History, to which the beasts, birds and reptiles, captured are to be given. He will have a chance to shoot tapir all the way from Para guay to Brazil and will probauly bring hack many specimens of the collared peccary, which Is found almost every where In South America. The peccary Is a kind of wild hog, which when grown Is about three feet In length. It Is of a dark gray color and the collared variety has a white band extending across the chest from shoulder to shoulder. It goes about In herds or droves and Is not diffi cult to shoot. We have some tapirs In Panama and they aro found In many parts of the Amazon and Parana basins. I saw some during my travels In South America. They make me think o'f a cross between a hog and a pony. They are usually found In the forests and In the lowlands near the rivers. They like to bathe and run for the water when at tacked. They are not at all dangerous. Pleasant Companion. And then the alligators and turtles. There are alligators almost everywhere In the Rio de la Plata system. I hod a shot at a score or so during my trip up the Paraguay river, and I saw some on the Amazon, although that stream Is so large that one only come Into sight of them when near the shore or on the banks. There are also sea porpoises In the Amazon and Its branches. There are snakes of enormous size and all kinds of fishes, from the great rowfish to the sar dine. Those rivers are the homes ot big turtles, which lay vast quantities of eggs on the banks. The natives collect the eggs and stack them up In plies like the cannon balls In a navy yard. Some of the piles are twenty feet In diameter and three times as high as a man. Later the eggs are thrown Into canoes and broken with sticks In order to make turtle-egg butter. When a canoe Is half full of these broken eggs, water Is poured In and the whole Is left out In the heat of the tropical sun. After a short time the oily matter of the eggs rises to the surface, when It Is skimmed off and clarified. It then looks like butter and Is used as such by the Indians and some of the other natives. It Is said that several hundred millions of turtle eggs are thus gathered every year In the Amazon basin. Trtit of the Parsns. But come with me and let us take a trip up the Parana system from tho mouth ot the Rio de la Plata, between Uruguay and Argentina, and on through Paraguay to where former President Roosevelt will leave the river. In Matto rosso, Brazil. We shall start at Buenos Aires. It Is a city bigger than Philadel phia and It has as fine buildings as Chi cago. Our steamer Is a slde-wheeler and It will take us more than 1,200 miles up the stream. During our first day's voyage we steam past the mouth of the Uruguay river and then go Into Parana. The word Parana means ''the mother of the sea," and this river system drains a large part ot eastern South America. We sail up It . MAXWELL BREAKS RECORDS Put on Biggest Individual Advertis ing in History, SPEND $50,000 AT ONE CRACK That Amount Secure it Combined Circulation of Ten Million Copies In Slxty-Klve Dif ferent Maiulny Pnpers. ABEiWIY FROM THE AMA5COT1 to where the Paraguay flows in, aa far as from New York to Cleveland. This part ot the stream Is from one to three miles In width and It carries a great vol ume of water. It has the whole of the Paraguay system, as well aa that of the upper Parana, which flows about 1.C00 miles through Brazil before It reaches the mouth of the Paraguay. It Is on one of the branches of this part of the Pa rana that lie the Niagara Falls ot South America. They are far In the Interior, but they can he reached, and It is prob able that ex-President Roosevelt will go to them. The falls are wider than either the Zambesi falls or Niagara, and the river makes a leap which Is thirty or forty feet more than that of Niagara Falls, and It Is said that the spectacle Is equally grand. All the way up the Parana to the Para guay we pass floating Islands. The floods tear the vegetation away from the banks and great masses of grass and trees go floating down stream. Sometimes one sees an alligator lying oh the shores of one of these Islands, and wild animals are often carried on them out of ,the wilds Into the regions of comparatively thick population. Amonir the Floating; Islands. This trip up the Parana takes one north ward from the temperate zone, In which Argentina lies, and on Into the tropics. The vegetation grows more dense as you go northwest. Great vines and lianas bind together the trees, and as the steamer moves along the banks you can see birds of brilliant plumage, including mocking toucans and shrieking parrots. There are plenty of monkeys almost everywhere In the wilds of Paraguay and Brazil, nnd so many alligators that I often mistook them for logs lying on the banks of the stream. After entering the "Paraguay you pass frequent orange groves, and at the towns there are plies of oranges lying on the ground near the wharves waiting to be leaded upon the steamers which will take them down to Buenos Aires. In Paraguay the oranges grow wild In the woods, though tho trees are probably from seeds which have been dropped by birds. Interesting Asuncion. Ex-President Roosevelt will undoubtedly stop at Asuncion, the capital of Para guay, This Is a most Interesting city of about 80,000, lying right on the bank of the river. It Is there that he will change to the smaller steamer which will carry him northward Into Matto Orosso, and go on Into the wilds. His trip as far as Cuyaba will be over the route traveled by Captain Thomas Page ot our navy. He was the first man to take steam launch Into that region, and It Is now more than fifty years since he made his way from the Atlantic ocean for 2,700 miles up the Parana and Paraguay system. There are now little mall steamers leaving Asun cion twice a month for Cuyaba, and It Is likely that Mr Roosevelt will go north upon one of these. He might enter the Pllcomayo, near Asuncion, and make his way up the high lands of Bolivia Into the Amazon, but there are no steamers, ana the upper portions of the river have not yet been explored. Indeed, It Is safe to say that he will go north Into Matto Orosso, and probably outfit for the wildest part of his trip at Cuyaba. Work for the Camera. Some of the most Interesting features of this Journey will be the Indian tribes, of which Mr. Roosevelt may bring back many original photographs. The Gran Chaco, which lies on the western side ot the river Paraguay, Is Inhabited almost altogether by savage, some ot whom are practically unknown to ethnology. I wan told that the Indians there often go naked from one year's end to tho other, and that those ot some tribes pull out all tho hair on their bodies except that on the head. Indeed, It Is said that there le one tribe which has done this tor so many ages that It has become naturally hairless. Its people can grow hair upon their heads only. I doubt this. Another tribe Is the Tobas, who wear no clothes except when they come In the presence ot whlto people At homo, thoy afton have a blanket about the waist, but they also go about as the sculptors say ot their models In "the altogether." A recent report from the Brazilian rubber region states that some of the Indians there are cannibals, and there are branches ot the Amnzon upon which the famous head hunters live. The latter Indians are not at all like, the head hunt ers ot Formosa and Borneo and such ot our savages who Inhabit the northern part of the Philippine Islands. They are ot a copper color, and have Indian fea tures. They have a way of curing the heads which preserves them forever. The bones ot the head are taken out and the skin then so shaped with the hand that It retains Its featuros in lite. It Is dried and baked, and after this It Is, so they claim, practically Indestructible. I saw one ot these heads In Panama City only two years ago, and I was offered one for $100 Mexican during my travels In South America in 1S38. There are other Indians In Brazil who wear plugs as big around as tho bottom of a tumbler In the lbbes of the ears and In the skin of the lower Hp, which are gradually stretched for that purpose. Only a small hole Is made at first and a stem of gloss or wood Is Inserted. Larger pieces of wood are put In from time to time until the skin and the holes grow Into these horrible deformities. This tribe Is known as the Botacudo. The Indians of eastern South America are altogether different from those ot the Andes. Their civilization at the time America was discovered compared with that ot the Incas as the civilization ot darkest Africa compares with that of the United States now. The Incas, after centuries of oppression and practical slav ery, have degenerated Into hewers ot wood and drawers ot water. The Indians of the Amazon and the Parana have re mained stationary, and the most of the tribes are not much more advanced In this year, 1918, than they were In 1489, when the South American continent was discovered. That "double truck" nd the Maxwell Motor company Is publishing today Is said by reliable authorities to be the biggest Individual advertising campaign ever put out by any concent either In the automobile business or any other. To spend 160,000 at one elam requires some nerve .nnd especially at this time, when bankers are trying to convince manufacturers that the country la In tho doldrums of tho hetwcen.seasons. 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