Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recollections of an Ill-Fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil
The members of the Madeira and Mamore Associa tion had long felt that the true history of the enterprise and of their disastrous experience, while connected with it, was worthy of preservation. Few of the many newspaper accounts published at the time were correct and none were complete; those who could speak from personal knowledge of occurrences in Brazil were fast passing away and those still living and qualified to write the desired history were too actively engaged in the living present to occupy themselves in raking over the dead ashes of the past. At the same time the constantly increasing importance of executing the work they had failed to perform made it probable that a knowledge of their experience would prove valuable to those who, in the not far distant future, would inevitably follow in their footsteps.
This was the situation, when, in February, 1903, the writer first found it possible to attend a reunion of those whom he had accompanied to Brazil a quarter of a century before, and ten minutes after his appear ance a formal resolution was passed imposing upon him the duty of writing the entire history of the Madeira and Mamore enterprise.
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