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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 ROOSEVELT-ROXDON SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION 51 a short voyage up the Rio Pilcomayo into the Grand Chaco of Paraguay. We reached a small settlement called Porto Galileo that night, where we were the guests of the "Que- bracho" Company. A large mill had been erected for the extraction of tannin from logs brought in from the surrounding country, and a narrow-gauge railway was being con- structed in the interior, a distance of sixty kilometers, fifteen kilometers of which was already in operation. We proceeded to the end of the line and pitched camp on the bank of a small stream, the Rio Negro, infested with piranhas. Our camp was merely a rough shed built of sheets of corrugated iron supported on poles driven into the ground. The river water was salt and unfit for use, so each morning several large jugs of drinking water were sent us from Porto Galileo, together with a supply of fresh provisions. All about lay marshes, swamps and large grass-
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The public market place in Asuncion, Paraguay.— Asuncion, which has been the scene of five revolutions in as many years, shows plainly the marks of violence which it has suffered. An air of de- pression hangs over the city, business activity is at a standstill and women are seen everywhere in deep mourning

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  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
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  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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