us articles, it
is because--unlike many other explorers--I have been in the custom of
never letting my name be used in any way whatever for advertising
purposes.

There are many people who are enthusiastic over a dangerous project when
they first hear of it, but on thinking it over and talking with friends
and relatives their enthusiasm soon wears off. That is what happened in
Rio. I wasted some time in Rio--socially most enjoyably employed--in
order to get followers and come to some suitable arrangement with the
Government. I was deeply indebted to the Minister of Agriculture, Dr.
Pedro de Toledo, for allowing me the free use of all the telegraphs in
Brazil, and also for a special permission (of which I never availed
myself) to use, if necessary, the flotilla of Government boats on the
Amazon. Credentials were also furnished me, but owing to the way in which
they were worded they were more of a danger to me than a protection. They
actually proved to be so once or twice when I was compelled to present
them. The expedition was considered so dangerous that the Government
published broadcast statements in the official and other papers stating
that "Mr. A. H. Savage Landor's expedition across Brazil was undertaken
solely at his own initiative and absolutely at his own risk and
responsibility." They also circulated widely the statement that I had
promised not in any way to injure or hurt the native Indians, that I
would not supply them with firearms of any kind, and that I would in no
way ill-treat them. I had gladly promised all that. I had not even
dreamt of doing any of those things to the natives, and naturally I
strictly kept my promise.

In a luxurious Administration car placed at my disposal by Dr. Paulo
Frontin I left Rio by the Central Railway, escorted as far as S. Paulo by
Dr. Carlo da Fonseca, a railway engineer, sent to look after my comfort
by the Central Brazilian Railway Company.

On approaching S. Paulo in the early morning I was much struck by the
activity of the waking city as compared with Rio. Carts were dashing to
and fro in the streets, the people walked along fast as if they had
something to do, and numerous factory chimneys ejected clouds of smoke,
puffing away in great white balls. The people stopped to chat away
briskly as if they had some life in them. It seemed almost as if we had
suddenly dropped into an active commercial European city. The type of
people, their ways and manners were differen