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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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62 THE AM ERIC AX MUSEUM JOURNAL Cherrie and Doctor Cajazeira, and fifteen native assistants. The Gy Parana party was composed of Captain Amilcar, Lieutenant Mello, a geol- ogist, a taxidermist and myself, besides a number of natives. We traveled three days longer to reach the Commemoracao. The spot was called Barao de Melgago, and marked practically the end of the telegraph
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line. The trip from Tapirapoan to the Com- memoracao had required exactly forty days; the distance is approximately five hundred and forty-eight miles. Many of the pack animals were in such poor condition that they had to be shot. It is impossible to say how many had been lost on the way, but the num- ber was very large. Barao de Melgac^o seemed to be the head- quarters of annoying insects and disease. Most of the handful of men at work on the telegraph line were ill with fever and beriberi, and there had been tw^elve deaths just before our arrival. We had expected to find canoes await- ing us, but as there were none, the men cut down a tree of ample size and began making one. This work, we estimated, would require a month; but after a wait of two weeks a large canoe arrived from down river. The time at Barao de Melga^o was profitably if not pleasantly spent. All about the little clear- ing rose the stately Amazonian forest, providing admirable collecting grounds. Many birds and mammals were ta- ken, all new to the collection. The lat- ter included an un- described spider mon- key and a saki' of a new genus. We started down the Commemoracao Photo by Cherrie NhambiQuara women and children with baskets of vegetables from the field 1 Saki: a South Amer- ican monkey with a bushy tail and a ruff of long hair around tlie face.

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