. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 300 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. In 1882, Crevaux, after his brilliant discoveries in Guiana, attempted to descend the Pilcomayo ; but about midway he was massacred with nearly all his party by the formidable Tobas, who in the eighteenth century had driven back Patino and killed Castanares. Crevaux was followed by Fontana, who surveyed the middle course of the river in the Toba territory; Feilberg-, who ascended 160 miles to the rapids, which he was unable to surmount; Tliouar and Campos, who descended beyond the point reached by Crevaux, and then reach
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 300 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. In 1882, Crevaux, after his brilliant discoveries in Guiana, attempted to descend the Pilcomayo ; but about midway he was massacred with nearly all his party by the formidable Tobas, who in the eighteenth century had driven back Patino and killed Castanares. Crevaux was followed by Fontana, who surveyed the middle course of the river in the Toba territory; Feilberg-, who ascended 160 miles to the rapids, which he was unable to surmount; Tliouar and Campos, who descended beyond the point reached by Crevaux, and then reached the Paraguay by an overland route across the plains ; John Page, son of the explorer of the Paraguay, who died in 1890, worn out by nine months of surveys on the Pilco- Fig. 127.—The Pilcomayo. Scale 1 : 4,000, 94 Miles. mayo ; lastly, Olaf Storm, who in the sarne year overcame the rapids and then went astray in a sea of floating vegetation. On the Bolivian frontier, as well as in its lower reaches, the Pilcomayo is navigable by river craft of considerable size ; but towards its middle course it spreads over a level plain, where the current is too feeble to excavate a deep or permanent channel. In 1844 the Margarines expedition was arrested in a sandy plain where the stream, dammed up by a barrier of snags, ramified into about sixty branches with scarcely perceptible current, and even disappearing in the ground. During the floods the whole of the region is a vast laTiado, " drowned land," " slough," choked with islets of floating plants. Lower down the incline. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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