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Title: Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Craig, Neville B., 1847-1926 Madeira and Mamoré Association
Subjects: Madeira-Mamoré Railway Mercedita (Ship) Collins Expedition (1878-1879) Brazil -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia & London : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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nt and manager, had beenleft in charge at Para to attend to our relations withthe Government and with the general agent and attor-ney of P. & T. Collins, as well as to oversee the puttingtogether of the Santa Maria, the Beni and the Mamorein the navy yard there, with facilities granted by theimperial Government of Brazil. *The Santa Maria was a light draught exploringlaunch of high power and had a tendency to swamp atfull speed; the Beni was a stout river tugboat, intendedfor towing purposes above the falls of the Madeira; theMamore was a light draught trading steamer withpowerful engines intended to penetrate all the upperwaterways of Bolivia and collect their produce forshipment to San Antonio and thence, via Para, toPhiladelphia. ^^The general agent and attorney of the Messrs.Collins at Para was Captain Lima, for many years acommander in the service of the Pacific Mail SteamshipCompany. A Brazilian by birth and a gentleman byinstinct. Captain Lima was as full of the bristles of
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AN ILL-FATED EXPEDITION 413 personality as a porcupine is of quills. The inspectorof customs at Para was a Brazilian gentleman, whohad been educated in Salem, Massachusetts, spokeEnglish perfectly, was the essence of all courtesy, butcould never get it out of his head that Mackie, Scott& Co., Ltd. and the Messrs. Collins were filling theempire of Brazil with contraband goods, introducedunder the authority of an assignment made by ColonelChurch to us of the privileges granted in his conces-sions, that such articles were to pay no duty, wouldmake us very rich and would do him no good, ^^As to the three boats and their erection, any onewho has worked in South America with native work-men under Government control, within ninety milesof the equator, and just about a thousand from a ma-chine shop, can imagine what poor West had to gothrough in the performance of his duties. But, whileHepburn and his fellow pioneers were taking the Junoand her unprecedented tow up the rivers, surveying a

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