. Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil . 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
. Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil . 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 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. 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 fe
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