Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recollections of an Ill-Fated Expedition: To the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil
For many years past it has been customary for an organization, known as the Madeira and Mamore Association, to hold an annual reunion at one of the leading hotels in Philadelphia.
The participants were persons who, in the year 1878, had gone to Brazil under the leadership of two firms of American contractors - P. 85 T. Collins and Mackie, Scott 85 Co. - for the purpose of constructing a railway around the falls and rapids of the upper Madeira River and establishing steamboat lines above and below the obstructions; so as to form, in connec tion with ocean steamships plying between New York and Brazilian seaports, one great system of inter national transportation, intended to produce a rapid development of all that vast and fertile territory drained by the Amazon and establish direct communi cation between the United States and interior Bolivia.
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