Word: orinoco
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rice is the only white man ever to reach the sources of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, and from his last South American expedition brought back the important ethnological collection now in Peabody Museum. He also succeeded in mapping practically the entire Amazon and the Rio Negro...
...lecture will consist of an account of the last expedition and the continuation of the work of previous explorations which have had as their main object the mapping of the big tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in the unknown region west of the Rio Negro. Another purpose was to collect ethnological information relative to the aboriginal inhabitants and to explore the forests where these primitive people lived previously untouched by civilization. The valley of the Amazon is the last great unexplored tract of the earth's surface...
...clock. His subject will be "Further Explorations in the Northwest Amazon Basin, 1912-1913." An account of the last expedition and continuation of the work of the previous explorations, which have had as their main object the mapping of the big tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in the unknown region west of the Rio Negro, will feature the talk...